Doris Day in ROMANCE ON THE HIGH SEAS Available on Blu-ray From Warner Archive

Doris Day in ROMANCE ON THE HIGH SEAS is available on Blu-ray From Warner Archive. Ordering info can be found HERE

Bon voyage! Georgia Garrett’s singing career may not be going anywhere, but she is. She’s on a cruise, sailing under the name Mrs. Elvira Kent while the real Elvira secretly stays home to spy on her presumably philandering hubby. Meanwhile, the husband hires a spy to snoop on his supposedly voyaging wife. Doris Day makes her maiden film voyage, debuting as Georgia in a colorful bauble afloat on romantic seas. The studio surrounds the sunny overnight screen sensation with top talent: Michael Curtiz directs, the Epstein brothers provide the script, Busby Berkeley guides musical numbers, Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn create the tunes, and costars include Oscar Levant and Jack Carson. “It’s Magic,” Day sings. Yes, it is.

Doris Day dazzles in her screen debut in this Michael Curtiz directed musical comedy. Day plays a night club singer on a Caribbean cruise who gets mixed up in a series of romantic problems. Georgia Garrett (Day) pretends to be Elvira Kent (Janis Paige) in order to take Elvira’s place on an ocean cruise. Also on board is a detective (Jack Carson) whom Elvira’s husband (Don DeFore) hired to see if Elvira is cheating on him. Believing that Georgia is Elvira, the detective can’t help falling in love with her. And then Georgia’s friend Oscar (Oscar Levant) arrives, seemingly confirming Elvira’s husband’s suspicions. Painstakingly recreated from scans of each of the original Technicolor strips and recombined and buffed to a lustrous shine, Romance on the High Seas hits the deep Blu sea swabbed and ready to sail as never before in this wondrous new HD presentation. Special Features: Vintage Musical Short “Lets Sing a Song from the Movies”; Classic Bugs Bunny Cartoon “Hare Splitter”(HD); Theatrical Trailer (HD)