Here Comes the Navy

Here Comes the Navy also known as Hey, Sailor is a 1934 American romantic comedy film. written by Earl Baldwin and Ben Markson, and directed by Lloyd Bacon. The film stars James Cagney, Pat OBrien, Gloria Stuart and Frank McHugh. Stuart was Oscarnominated 63 years later for another nautical epic, Titanic 1997.

With the full cooperation of the US Navy, principal photography which ended early May 1934, took place at a number of naval facilities, including the Bremerton Navy yard, Washington, Naval Training Station, San Diego, California, as well as other locations in San Pedro and Sunnyvale, California. Naval personnel made up many of the extras on the film. Of historical interest is that a portion of the filming of Here Comes the Navy took place aboard the battleship Arizona, which was sunk by the Japanese on December 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor. Further, portions of the film also include shots of the dirigible Macon, a year before the accident that destroyed the airship with the loss of two crew.In his review for The New York Times, film critic Frank Nugent described Here Comes the Navy as another of the films in traditional Cagneyesque manner. Some of the heartiest laughs of the current cinema season were recorded last night in the Strand Theatre, where Here Comes the Navy had its metropolitan premire. A fastmoving comedy enriched by an authentic naval setting, this Warner production has the added advantage, in these parlous times, of being beyond censorial reproach. ........

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