Here Come the Waves

Here Come the Waves is a 1944 film directed by Mark Sandrich. It stars Bing Crosby and Betty Hutton.

The twins attend a show in which Johnny is starring and onstage he sings That Old Black Magic. Back stage he finds an old friend, Windy Smith Sonny Tufts, who has joined the Navy and Johnny explains that his own application has been refused because he is colourblind. Together they visit theClub and Windy meets the twins, whom he already knows, and introduces Johnny. Both men are attracted to Rosemary while Susie becomes even more infatuated with Johnny. Johnny is eventually accepted into the Navy and begins his training hoping for assignment to the U.S.S. Douglas, the ship on which his father had served with distinction, when its refitting has been completed. Rosemary is contemptuous of Johnnys popularity with the other girls but when she is dining with Windy, Johnny joins them and by a trick arranges for Windy to be escorted out by a couple of Military Policemen. On the way back Johnny sings to Rosemary Lets Take the Long Way Home and Rosemary realises that she is in love with him. In order to prevent his leaving to join the Douglas Susie submits a suggestion for a show to be produced to aid WAVES recruitment and signs it with Johnnys name. The suggestion is accepted and Johnny is placed as Chief Specialist in charge of it. Thinking that Windy is responsible for the suggestion being put forward in his name Johnny chooses him as his assistant. A show is held aboard U.S.S. Traverse Bay and Johnny, as an old postman, and Windy, as a commissionaire, both in blackface, sing AcCentTchuAte the Positive with the help of a chorus of WAVES.When Rosemary learns from Windy about Johnnys suggestion she thinks he has made it to avoid active service. Johnny manages to get hold of the written suggestion with the intention of showing it to Rosemary to prove it is not his handwriting but Susie gets it from him. Rosemary disbelieves that he had the note and tells him that she is going to leave the show. Windy persuades Susie to don a dark wig and pretend to be Rosemary. In this

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