Ship Ahoy "Independent" and that Maurice was murdered

and that Maurice was murdered

Joining Morgan for the fun is a mix of screen veterans (Billie Burke

plopped back in time with his knowledge of the future intact - much like Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee

Animal Crackers and A Night at the Opera)

Rooney plays Geechy Cheevers

Ship Ahoy "Independent" and that Maurice was murderedShip Ahoy, a patriotic musical comedy of the WWII era, swings to the tempo of its big band times. Eleanor Powell plays a leggy lead dancer on a cruise ship who is asked to transport a mine to Puerto Rico. Neither she nor her pulp fiction author beau (Red Skelton) knows she's actually working for spies who got the idea from one of his potboiler novels! The supporting cast includes Bert Lahr (the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz) and Virginia O'Brien