Ship Ahoy (1942) - (Movie Clip) Poor You

Ship Ahoy - (Original Trailer)

A dancer sailing to Puerto Rico hides government messages in her tap routines in the MGM musical Ship Ahoy (1942) starring Red Skelton.

Ship Ahoy (1942) -- (Movie Clip) I'll Take Tallulah

Like many Eleanor Powell numbers, another suggesting she was the best dancer of her generation, devised by Billy Connolly, Bert Lahr and Red Skelton warbling, Tommy Dorsey's band, song by Burton Lane and Yip Harburg, clever bit for drummer Buddy Rich, in Ship Ahoy, 1942.

Ship Ahoy (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Last Call For Love

Frank Sinatra fronts Tommy Dorsey’s band in a rendition of Burton Lane, Margery Cummings and E.Y. Harburg's "Last Call for Love" in the wartime musical Ship Ahoy, 1942.

Ship Ahoy (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Hawaiian War Chant

Opening, pretty much everybody showing off, the tune a Hawaiian pop standard, first Tommy Dorsey and the band, then drummer Buddy Rich and trumpeter Ziggy Elman, then Eleanor Powell as the fictional "Tallulah Winters," in Ship Ahoy, from producer Jack Cummings at MGM, co-starring Red Skelton.