Bon Voyage! (1962 film)

Bon Voyage is a 1962 Walt Disney film directed by James Neilson and released by Buena Vista Distribution Company. Following their practice of the time, it was also issued as a comic book and an adaptation appeared in the comic strip Walt Disneys Treasury of Classic Tales. It stars Fred MacMurray, Jane Wyman, Deborah Walley, Tommy Kirk and Kevin Corcoran as the Willard family on a European holiday. The family crossed the Atlantic Ocean on SSUnited States which survives today, stripped and moored at Pier 82 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The film was based on a 1956 novel by Joseph and Merrijane Hayes. Joseph Hayes had written The Desperate Hours and Bon Voyage was his second book he and his wife wrote it after taking a trip across the Atlantic.Film rights were bought by Universal before the book had even been published for 125,000 and it was announced the film would be produced by Ross Hunter and written by the Hayes. Esther Williams was originally announced as star. Then James Cagney was going to play the lead. Filming dates were pushed back then Bing Crosby was linked to the project. ........

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