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I first seen this movie when I was a boy during the 1940's and liked it very much. I liked it both as a comedy and for the musical numbers. Vivian Blaine was superb, as normal. Too bad Perry Como didn't sing more. I then seen this movie on Turner Movie Classics and now found it to be an okay movie but not one Carmen Miranda's best. Miranda is still very good in it but should of had more to do. Phil Silvers stole the movie and was great. Why would they give the name "Chiquita" to a Brazilian? In Brazil they speak Portuguese not Spanish. Chiquita is Spanish for Petite and sometimes used to mean Girlfriend. In most of Miranda's movies they even give her words to say and though she spoke Spanish. Still a very enjoyable movie. It was also fun to see Judy Holiday, June Haver and Cara Williams who were uncredited at the time.

Great WWII movie though I'm a little prejudice because I was aboard the USS Whitehurst, DE-634 during the filming which was the DE used in the movie. In the movie the DE was the USS Haynes DE-61.

One of the comments under "goofs" said that it showed the destroyer as a single screw. No, we were a twin screw Destroyer Escort, not a Destroyer. (Thus the symbol: "DE")and we were a WWII DE.

Our real captain, Walter R. Smith was a technical adviser and played the part of the engineering officer in the movie. (The officer reading the Little Orphan Annie comics) As a radarman aboard the ship I was quite impressed at the Navy accuracy of the movie, e.g. no sound was used for the radar unlike a lot of movies and all the voice and radio verbal messages were done properly.

This movie, Das Boot and Run Silent Run Deep are my favorite WWII Navy movies.