Luxury Liner

1948
Approved
1h 38m

IMDb RATING

6.4/10

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Jane Powell, George Brent, Xavier Cugat, Frances Gifford, Marina Koshetz, and Lauritz Melchior in Luxury Liner (1948)

A young girl stows away aboard a luxury liner which is full of musical stars--and which her father just happens to be the captain.

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A young girl stows away aboard a luxury liner which is full of musical stars--and which her father just happens to be the captain.A young girl stows away aboard a luxury liner which is full of musical stars--and which her father just happens to be the captain.A young girl stows away aboard a luxury liner which is full of musical stars--and which her father just happens to be the captain.

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IMDb RATING

6.4/10

645

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 nomination total

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George Brent

Captain Jeremy Bradford

Jane Powell

Polly Bradford

Lauritz Melchior

Olaf Eriksen

Frances Gifford

Laura Dene

Marina Koshetz

Zita Romanka

Xavier Cugat

Xavier Cugat

Thomas E. Breen

Denis Mulvy

Richard Derr

Charles G.K. Worton

John Ridgely

Chief Officer Carver
(as John Ridgeley)

The Pied Pipers

Themselves

Connie Gilchrist

Bertha

Aladdin

Member of Cugat's Orchestra
(uncredited)

Sam Ash

Waiter
(uncredited)

Mary Bayless

Ship Passenger
(uncredited)

Hal Bell

Dancer
(uncredited)

Margaret Bert

Maid
(uncredited)

Betty Blythe

Miss Fenmoor
(uncredited)

Lulu Mae Bohrman

Ship Passenger
(uncredited)

Director
- Richard Whorf
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Trivia
This film was a success at the box office, earning MGM a profit of $428,000 (about $5.53M in 2024) according to studio records.

Goofs
In the opening credits, the funnels of the inbound luxury liner Mayflower sport the white, green and red of the Italian Line. Once docked, the camera pan across the Mayflower's superstructure shows the forward funnel painted completely in red. On departure, the ship's livery is back to that of the Italian Line, and the Mayflower's bow bears the real-life name of a crack pre-war Italian liner, the Conte di Savoia.

Quotes
Pierre: Don't look so unhappy, little girl. Things could be worse.
Polly Bradford: [Peeling potatoes in the ship's galley] How?
Pierre: Those might be onions.

Connections
Featured in Private Screenings: Jane Powell (1996)

Soundtracks
Spring Came Back to Vienna
(uncredited)
Written by Janice Torre, Fred Spielman and Fritz Rotter
Sung by Jane Powell and Chorus

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Featured review

6/10

Cruise south of the border

Jane Powell steps into a role that a decade earlier Deanna Durbin was playing over at Univeral Pictures and making great money at it. Little wholesome Miss Fixit who solves everyone's problems before the film is over and the audience gets a cadenza or two.

Luxury Liner has Jane an opera aspiring daughter of passenger liner captain George Brent. There's an opera festival in Rio and Jane just has to go and the captain says no. What to do, simply stow away, especially with the great tenor Lauritz Melchior on board.

In fact besides Jane and Melchior we also have the Pied Pipers late of the Tommy Dorsey orchestra and the ship's orchestra is that of Xavier Cugat which is perfect for a cruise south of the border. As you can see the musical guests run quite a gamut of musical taste.

Luxury Liner is a nice easy to take musical and quite frankly I miss the days when young teen stars had a great singing range like Deanna Durbin, Jane Powell, Susanna Foster, Gloria Jean. We haven't heard arias from teen mouths in decades.