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Luxury Liner

LUXURY LINER

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CREDITS

1948, 98 minutes, Technicolor.
Producer, Joe Pasternak; Director, Richard Whorf; Screenplay, Gladys Lehman and Richard Connell; Cinematography, Ernest Laszlo; Music Direction, Georgie Stoll.

CAST

Captain Bradford, George Brent; Polly Bradford, Jane Powell; Olaf Eriksen, Lauritz Melchior; Laura Dene, Frances Gifford; Zita Romanka, Marina Koshetz; Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra; The Pied Pipers.

SONGS

Spring Came Back to Vienna by Janice Torre, Fred Spielman and Fritz Rotter; The Peanut Vendor by L. Wolfe Gilbert, Marion Sunshine and Moises Simons; Yes, We Have No Bananas by Frank Silver and Irving Cohen; Come Back to Sorrento by Ernesto De Curtis and Claude Aveling; I've Got You Under My Skin by Cole Porter; Cugat's Nougat by Xavier Cugat; Con Maracas by Cugat and Candido Dimanling; Gavotte by Massenet; Act II Duet from Verdi's Aida; Alouette.

PLOT SYNOPSIS

"Effervescent Jane Powell leads the onboard festivities as Polly, daughter of the ship's captain (George Brent). Captain Dad tells her she can't go on the cruise to Rio, but where there's a will, there's a Polly. The spunky teen becomes a stowaway, setting in motion a plot in which she plays Cupid for some passengers. . .and tries to convince an operatic star (Lauritz Melchior) of her singing skills."
- Liner Notes from Turner/MGM/UA Laserdisc

NOTES

"Tireless Joe Pasternak was at it again, blending the light with the heavy in Luxury Liner. . .The romantic shipboard setting, with the help of Technicolor and all the handsome production values the studio could accord it, gave the film a glossy veneer that more than compensated for its lack of substance."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical

"Minor shipboard romance with pleasing talents applied."
- Halliwell's Film Guide

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