''Tars and Spars'' is a 1946 American
musical
Musical is the adjective of music.
Musical may also refer to:
* Musical theatre, a performance art that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance
* Musical film
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romantic comedy film directed by
Alfred E. Green and starring
Alfred Drake,
Janet Blair, and
Marc Platt.
Plot
Howard Young is a coast guardsman who has been on shore duty for three years despite his efforts to be sent into action. His nearest approach to sea duty was on a harbor-moored life raft for 21 days as part of an experiment with a new type of vitamin gum for the government. He meets Christine Bradley, a
SPAR
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, sent to take over his communications job and, by things he leaves unsaid, she thinks his life-raft experience was the result of a ship-wreck at sea.
Cast list
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Alfred Drake as Howard Young of Oklahoma
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Janet Blair as Christine Bradley of Pennsylvania
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Marc Platt as Junior Casady of Indiana
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Jeff Donnell
Jean Marie "Jeff" Donnell (July 10, 1921 – April 11, 1988) was an American film and television actress.
Early years
Donnell was born in South Windham, Maine, to Harold and Mildred Donnell, when her father was superintendent at a boys' reform ...
as Penny McDougal of Brooklyn
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Sid Caesar
Isaac Sidney Caesar (September 8, 1922 – February 12, 2014) was an American comic actor, comedian and writer. With a career spanning 60 years, he was best known for two pioneering 1950s live television series: ''Your Show of Shows'' (1950� ...
as Chuck Enders of Yonkers, U.S.A.
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Ray Walker as Lieutenant Scully
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James Flavin
James William Flavin Jr. (May 14, 1906 – April 23, 1976) was an American character actor whose career lasted for nearly half a century.
Early life
The son of a hotel waiter of Canadian-English descent,Flavin's obituary, distributed by United ...
as Chief Bosun Mate Gurney
References
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Columbia Pictures films
Films directed by Alfred E. Green
1946 romantic comedy films
1946 films
American musical comedy films
American romantic comedy films
American black-and-white films
Films about the United States Coast Guard
1940s American films
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