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Romance on the High Seas
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569796706
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: 79670
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 10, 2007
Running Time: 99 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: July 03, 1948
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Editorial Review:
Elvira is supposed to go on a cruise but decides to stay home when she suspects her husband is cheating on her. Her husband suspects the same of his wife and sends an investigator to spy on her on the cruise - but he is really spying on Elvira's husband.Running Time: 99 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: NR UPC: 012569796706 Manufacturer No: 79670
For a crystal-clear lesson in how an unknown vaults into immediate stardom, look no further than Romance on the High Seas, the silly 1948 musical that launched the movie career of Doris Day. A band singer, Day was plucked from the ranks when Warner Bros. and director Michael Curtiz needed to find a replacement for a role intended first for Judy Garland and then for Betty Hutton. She's fourth-billed, but there's no question Doris Day owns the picture; in retrospect, the part seems tailor-made to break a new star. The plot is a howler: society wife Janis Paige is suspicious when husband Don DeFore (hubby to TV's Hazel) claims he must stay in New York on business instead of going on a cruise to South America. So Paige gives the cruise ticket to lounge singer Doris, on the condition that she pretend to be Paige, while wifey hangs back in New York. Make sense? Meanwhile, a suspicious DeFore hires a detective (Jack Carson) to spy on his wife during the cruise, except of course it isn't really his wife, it's... well, you get the picture. Day is somewhat sassier than her later well-scrubbed image would allow; she actually seems like an up-from-the-streets, well-traveled barnstormer. The saucy script has a handsome pedigree; it was penned by Casablanca boys Julius and Philip Epstein and polished by future Billy Wilder partner I.A.L. Diamond. However, it must be stated that Curtiz is nobody's idea of a buoyant comedy director, even if the lounge-singing sequences are sharply made. The cast is stocked with screwball stalwarts such as S.Z. Sakall, Eric Blore, and Franklin Pangborn. As Day's accompanist and suitor, the celebrated musican-wit Oscar Levant has one of his better screen roles--and his experience here was likely the source of his later quip, "I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin." If you see her cheeky performance here, you might agree with him. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Flyweight, Technicolor-Glossy, and Charming Vehicle That Launched The Screen Career of Doris Day
By the late 1940s, Warner Brothers was no longer a major producer of lavish musicals--but in 1947 they decided to return to the field with ROMANCE ON THE HIGH SEAS, a lightweight tale of luxury liner romance and comic confusion. Lacking a major musical star, the studio sought to borrow Judy Garland from MGM--but MGM, notoriously possessive of its musical leading lady, refused. Warner then went to Paramount and did indeed secure the services of Betty Hutton--but Hutton became pregnant and would ... Read More
Rating:  - Fun and romantic
This is a film in true Doris Day spirit. A lot of misunderstandings, good humor, romance and a happy ending. Just like we want it for a day of escape from the ordinary life.
The story is about a couple that are suspecting each other for playing around. He hires a detective to spy on his wife, she hires a nightclub singer to go on the cruise that she and her husband should have gone on so that she can stay in a hotel nearby to spy on her husband. This is the beginning for a lot of misunderstandings ... Read More
Rating: - Good clean fun!
I was prepared to hate this movie. One of Day's biographers had written that it was her worst film, but being a diehard fan I thought I'd give it a try. I was surprised at how much I liked it. The plot was silly (but so were most plots in 1940 comedies!) but the songs were lovely. Some of the movie was VERY funny. The scene where the two boyfriends get drunk without drinking a drop is a classic! I also enjoyed the wise-cracking tomboy-type Doris that opened the movie. Shades of the Calamity Jane figure ... Read More
Rating: - Doris Day shines in amazing screen debut...
It's hard to believe 'Romance on the High Seas' is Doris Day's first flick. She's awesome in a role originally intended for Betty Hutton--and everyone has a great time poking fun at manners and morals in this breezy sea breeze of a farce. When Day and Jack Carson aren't coming up with one-liners, she takes time to sing some nifty tunes--among them, 'Put 'Em in A Box', 'It's You Or No One' and, of course, 'It's Magic'.
Her rendering of the latter song in a Cuban nightclub is one of the highlights ... Read More
Rating: - breezy film with beautiful music and song--and there's even Doris Day before she was a virgin !!!
Romance On The High Seas has great musical numbers, a plot to keep your attention--and we see the film debut of Doris Day. The plot moves along at a good pace; and the acting is rather good although I've still seen better.
The action begins when Mrs. Elvira Kent (Janis Paige) suspects her husband Michael Kent (Don DeFore) of cheating on her since he can never celebrate their anniversary together on a vacation. He's always working, Michael tells Elvira. Worse yet, Michael Kent himself suspects that ... Read More
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