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Topic: Ocean Liner Trivia - Liner Film Stars

Terry
First Class Passenger
Member # 448

posted 01-11-2000 07:32 AM

Over the years many movies have had ocean liners as backdrops to their stories. In the sixties there was a UA movie called "JUGGERNAUT" which featured a fictional British transAtlantic liner called the BRITANIC of Sovereign Lines [also fictional].
Which ship played the role. Clue she is still cruising today. Also has anyone any other examples of Liner Film Stars?

TERRY

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Joe at PwC
First Class Passenger
Member # 225

posted 01-11-2000 10:36 AM

I can imagine there's probably been dozens of them. Off the cuff, the Caronia was in an episode of "The Lucy and Desi Comedy Hour," and later, the Independence was in an "I Love Lucy" episode (or was it the Constitution?). The United States had her own film in the '50's which starred Fred MacMurray, although the name of the film escapes me. The Westerdam was just recently in the Walter Matthau/Jack Lemmon film "Out to Sea." And wasn't the Poseidon really just a scale model of the Queen Mary? It looks like it could have been. It was a three-stacker in Cunard-like livery. And then of course there's the Pacific and Sun Princesses as the old and new "Love Boat."

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Barryboat
First Class Passenger
Member # 33

posted 01-11-2000 11:21 AM

Bon Voyage was the name of the movie with the Big U in it. I have the film - it has GREAT footage actually filmed onboard the ship! Yes the Posiden was the Queen Mary - The model used for the film is in San Pedro at the maritime museum. It is a very detailed model of the Queen Mary. I don't think the Lucy show was ever really on the Caronia, they just used a life preserver that said Caronia on it, but the actual ship was one of those banana boats that use to sail out of New York to Havanna - I don't remember the name. I remember making a post on this site some time ago about this subject and I gave the name of that ship used in the Lucy show. I'd have to research that again cause I forgot. Ile De France was in "The Last Voyage" The Queen Mary made an appearance in a current running movie, "The Talented Mr. Ripley". I have yet to see this film, but apparently there was a Titanic movie filmed on the Olympic. I'd love to see that movie!

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Joe at PwC
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Member # 225

posted 01-11-2000 12:01 PM

Yeah, I realize that it wasn't the real Caronia on Lucy/Desi. It was just that the show was attempting to make the suggestion that they were on it.

That Titanic film from the Olympic would indeed be a fascinating film to see. Let me know if you ever find it, because I'd like to see that myself.

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Patrick
First Class Passenger
Member # 364

posted 01-11-2000 01:26 PM

Of course there was only one ship to be the best for such a great movie: MAXIM GORKIY.
See my post in the topic "Britannic-film" where I tell you about the new version of "Juggernaut" called "Final Voyage", again produced onboard MAXIM GORKIY.
An other example is also the movie "The last voyage of the SeaStar". It was partly made onboard the ODESSA SKY (ex GRUZIYA, now VAN GOGH), for the inside pictures and deck-scenes, and partly made by using MAXIM GORKIY for outside scenes. By computer-technics, the platform-funnel was changed into a simple funnel.
Also a great movie was made onboard the ACHILLE LAURO, to tell about the hijacking by a group of Palestinians in 1985. But passengers onboard were never told that there will be produced a movie and they had to accept that several lounges and deck-areas were closed during the whole cruise.
Also the famous German TV-series "Das Traumschiff" was produced first onboard the VISTAFJORD, then onboard the ASTOR (now ARKONA), then onboard the BERLIN and now it´s produced onboard the DEUTSCHLAND.

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sympatico
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posted 01-11-2000 02:14 PM

Joe at PwC - we also saw that moveie Out to Sea and just howled. They only used the outside of the Lido deck for one of the shots (saw a couple of the crew that we knew) and also there was a shot of the bridge with Captain Kievit and the CO. The inside of the ship was a mock-up in a studio and nothing like the Westerdam, especially the cabins and dining room. We happened to be on the Statebdan when the movie came out and the CD had a copy of it and showed some of it to us. Funny movie but then Lemmon and Matthau are always funny.

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Terry
First Class Passenger
Member # 448

posted 01-15-2000 06:55 AM

Well done Patrick. The MAXIM GORKIY it was!
How about another one. This time a golden oldie. Which transatlantic liner featured in a movie starring JANE RUSSELL.

TERRY

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Vaccaro
First Class Passenger
Member # 465

posted 01-15-2000 07:15 AM

Hello everybody,

It was the LIBERTE and the comedy was "The French Line".
I have the poster of this film displayed in a book.

Bye.

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joe at travelpage
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Member # 622

posted 01-15-2000 10:00 AM

Portions of the "Out to Sea" movie were also filmed on the Queen Mary in Long Beach. Some of the interior shots near the end of the movie were shot in the former First Class Main lounge - which was set up for dancing.

Joe at TravelPage.com

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blf49
First Class Passenger
Member # 502

posted 01-16-2000 03:34 PM

Jane Russell was on another crossing, with Monroe. I think it was Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. It was a great musical and I can't remember the ship. Anyone know?

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Terry
First Class Passenger
Member # 448

posted 02-12-2000 05:27 PM

It's taken a while to find a reference but here it is:

"GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES", which starred Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell, was filmed, in Anita Loos' story, on the fictitious ILE DE PARIS. What viewers see as the ship is only the model of a liner with the red/black funnels of Transat [French Line] steaming across the screen, and later when the two stars disembark at Cherbourg, from a real ocean liner, the CONTE DE SAVOIA with her red/white/green funnels."
MONARCHS OF THE SEA by Kurt Ulrich.
If this was true, pre-war footage must have been used as the in 1953, when the movie was made, the Italian vessel had long been destroyed.
Here's another one, if anyone is interested. What ship starred in the 1976 movie VOYAGE OF THE DAMMED, with Faye Dunaway.

TERRY

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shipman1
Just Boarded
Member # 939

posted 02-12-2000 11:44 PM

VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED Starred the s/s Irpinia.

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Peter P
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posted 02-13-2000 02:22 PM

Achille Lauro

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DianaD
First Class Passenger
Member # 1010

posted 02-13-2000 11:05 PM

Many years ago, approx 1959, I had the opportunity to tour the Shaw Saville Line first class ship DOMINION MONARCH. She was a most beautiful ship, all dark wood and very plush. She was in the London Docks at the time. Her sister ship was the SOUTHERN CROSS which was tourist class only.

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Barryboat
First Class Passenger
Member # 33

posted 02-16-2000 12:52 PM

I just saw a movie a couple of nights ago about a man bringing his three children on a cruise to italy and greece. The movie was called: "Table For Five". It was filmed aboard the Vistafjord in 1983. They had some really nice interior and deck shots and they actually filmed while at sea. The filmers did a nice job of capturing what cruising was like on that ship.

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NAL
First Class Passenger
Member # 1102

posted 02-17-2000 03:49 PM

Barryboat......do you remember which network
had the film "Table for Five" on the great
Vistafjord???? I'd like to very see the
film. Do you know if it's rentable?????
Thanks in advance for your help.

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Barryboat
First Class Passenger
Member # 33

posted 02-18-2000 12:02 PM

I watched Table For Five on satellite TV, so I have no idea what network would have it. I will check with Blockbuster to see if they have it. Cause I didn't get to see the whole movie, it was on very late and i got tired.

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NAL
First Class Passenger
Member # 1102

posted 02-18-2000 01:04 PM

Barryboat......thanks for the info. I will
check too to see if it's rentable and will
let you know if I find it is.

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Rex
First Class Passenger
Member # 1113

posted 03-02-2000 01:08 PM

The ship model used in the underrated 1937 HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT, with Jean Arthur and Charles Boyer, looks very similar to the NORMANDIE (it is called the PRINCESS IRENE, named after the character Arthur plays in the film. There is a great sequence where the ship strikes and iceberg.)

THE LADY EVE of 1941 (Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda)has some exterior shots of what I think may be the second MAURETANIA (called SOUTHERN QUEEN in the film). The NORMANDIE was also featured in another Barbara Stanwyck film, SORRY, WRONG NUMBER.

And oh, yes, if anyone cares, the Fairsky or Fairsea was in an episode of The Partridge Family.

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tomsteph
Just Boarded
Member # 813

posted 03-02-2000 08:24 PM

Has anyone seen the mini-series "The French
Atlantic Affair" with the FESTIVALE! It was filmed on the ship and on the QUEEN MARY!
Another good ship flick is NOW VOYAGER with Bette DAvis! A great movie!

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Rex
First Class Passenger
Member # 1113

posted 03-08-2000 11:40 PM

Tomsteph...

NOW VOYAGER is a great flick, and had a couple of good exterior shots of the underrated EMPRESS OF BRITAIN of 1931. She was the largest liner Canadian-Pacific had ever built (758 feet long, 96 feet wide and almost 43,000 gross tons) and was originally built for a Quebec-Europe run, to lure Midwestern passengers (as opposed to them going to New York) with a relatively calm run up the St. Lawrence river. The scheme failed, for reasons I don't know (maybe someone else does), and she was such a failure for CP Lines, that they flat out refused to build another large liner, even though the Allies and the Canadian government offered funds for them to build TWO ships to replace her (she was sunk by the Germans in WWII). Yet few people remember her.

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DAMBROSI
First Class Passenger
Member # 100

posted 03-10-2000 11:18 AM

In the 80's a T.V. show called "MCGYVER", the guy that could get you out of a bad situation with anything handy. Filmed an episode
on the S/S VISTAFJORD. Only the ship
was called a different name. I can't
recall that, but you could see
the name of the VISTAFJORD on certain shots. I do believe it was filmed on it, with some shots done
on the R.M.S. QUEEN MARY.Also the Columbo TV series was filmed on board
one of Princess liners the
ISLAND PRINCESS and they
had a few brief shots on the QUEEN MARY.

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tg_lindo
First Class Passenger
Member # 806

posted 03-10-2000 03:03 PM

Barryboat-

I can't find BON VOYAGE in my usual video web sites. Has it been released on video? I'm always looking for more vintage interior images of Big U.

As for the Queen Mary being used so much as a location, I guess it's no wonder since Long Beach is so close to Hollywood. But were the minds behind the Queen Mary's relocation to Long Beach anticipating this or did it the liner's popularity as a location come as a surprise to them?

Let's not forget that X-Files filmed on the Queen Mary. I can't remember if she was supposed to be a specific liner, but the Nazis were the bad guys.

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desirod7
First Class Passenger
Member # 1626

posted 01-08-2001 10:03 PM

Check out these movies

Marx Bros:---'Monkey Business'
The 4 create mayhem as stowaways on a transatlantic voyage.

Marx Bros: ---'Night at the Opera'
Stateroom scene and steerage singing on deck.

'Trio'---compilation of Somerset Maughan short stories: The Know All

'And The Ship Sails On'----Fellini film
X-lantic crossing in WW1--halarious
Opera company on board serenades the stokers.

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Ryndam
First Class Passenger
Member # 1315

posted 01-09-2001 01:46 AM

Tomsteph, do you have any other information about "The French Atlantic Affair"?

Here are some more movies.
One episode of the "A-Team" series has been filmed on the Tropicale. Two episode of "Baywatch" have been filmed on the Norwegian Sea and on a Sun Princess class ship. Once I've also seen an ugly movie shot on the Fantasy and in the Carnival Crystal Palace in Nassau, but I don't know the English title. A movie called "Mayday" has been filmed on the MSC Symphony.

Ryndam

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