Here Come the Waves

1944
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1h 39m

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Bing Crosby, Betty Hutton, and Sonny Tufts in Here Come the Waves (1944)

Show business twin sisters Rosemary and Susie, one serious and the other a scatterbrain, join the WAVES and both fall in love with crooner Johnny Cabot.Show business twin sisters Rosemary and Susie, one serious and the other a scatterbrain, join the WAVES and both fall in love with crooner Johnny Cabot.Show business twin sisters Rosemary and Susie, one serious and the other a scatterbrain, join the WAVES and both fall in love with crooner Johnny Cabot.

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6.1/10

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Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 nomination total

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Bing Crosby

Johnny Cabot

Betty Hutton

Susan…

Sonny Tufts

Windy 'Pinetop' Windhurst

Ann Doran

Ruth

Gwen Crawford

Noel Neill

Dorothy

Catherine Craig

Lt. Townsend

Anabel Shaw

Isabel
(as Marjorie Henshaw)

Terry Adams

Wave
(uncredited)

Harry Barris

Bandleader
(uncredited)

Carmella Bergstrom

Wave
(uncredited)

Lillian Bronson

Johnny Cabot Fan
(uncredited)

Charles D. Brown

Capt. Johnson
(uncredited)

Mae Clarke

Ens. Kirk
(uncredited)

Carmen Clifford

Bit Part
(uncredited)

Yvonne De Carlo

Wave
(uncredited)

Evelyn Dockson

Undetermined Role
(uncredited)

Mimi Doyle

Johnny Cabot Fan
(uncredited)

Director
- Mark Sandrich
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Trivia
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since; its earliest documented telecast took place in Seattle Thursday 23 October 1958 on KIRO (Channel 7); it first aired in Phoenix Wednesday 19 August 1959 on KVAR (Channel 12); it was released on DVD 14 November 2006 as one of 5 titles in Universal's Bing Crosby Screen Legend Collection, and again 11 November 2014 as one of 24 titles in Universal's Bing Crosby Silver Screen Collection.

Goofs
When Betty Hutton begins to write a letter, she is shown in medium shot and she is obviously just scribbling on the paper, but after the cut to an over-the-shoulder shot, the writing does not match and it is neat and legible.

Quotes
Susan: You know what you are, Windy? You're the man behind the woman behind the man behind the gun.

Connections
Featured in How Hollywood Twins Scenes Have Evolved Over 100 Years (2021)

Soundtracks
That Old Black Magic
(uncredited)
Music by Harold Arlen
Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Sung by Bing Crosby

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Hutton Wonderful, Crosby Coasting

If a plot involves twins you know what you are in for and this film gives you all of the mistaken identity situations that you expect.

Crosby is good as always but seems to be coasting here and the existence of Sonny Tufts' career still escapes me but while this is far from her best film the reason to watch this film is Betty Hutton. She plays twins - one amped up and zany and one demure - and does a very good job with each. The story goes that after this film came out Paramount got a lot of calls from moviegoers asking who the brunette was that played Betty's sister. She does photograph differently in each role and it is not from any makeup but from the differences in her performance.

James Agee wrote about Betty Hutton over 50 years ago, "to me she is beyond good and evil." and I agree with him completely, watching her energy and talent on the screen it is easy to see why she such a huge star in the 1940s and early 50s. Her best films are Annie Get Your Gun, The Perils of Pauline, and The Stork Club. Also try to catch The Fleet's In whenever AMC gets around to showing it to see her first film which instantly turned her into a star.