MR PEABODY AND THE MERMAID
1948

PLOT:
Arthur Peabody is undergoing a mid-life crisis as he approaches his 50th birthday. While on vacation with his wife Polly at a Caribbean resort he hears mysterious singing coming from an uninhabited rock in the bay and takes his boat there to do a little fishing. To his surprise, he reels in Lenore, a beautiful mermaid.

Lenore is mischievous and childlike and more than a little bit alluring, and though she has no spoken language, he soon falls in love with her. Of course, his wife won't believe that thing in the bathtub is anything but a large fish. Predictably, complications soon occur.

CAST:
William Powell ... Mr. Arthur Peabody
Ann Blyth ... Mermaid
Irene Hervey ... Mrs. Polly Peabody
Andrea King ... Cathy Livingston
Clinton Sundberg ... Mike Fitzgerald
Art Smith ... Dr. Harvey
Hugh French ... Major Hadley
Lumsden Hare ... Col. Mandrake
Frederick Clarke ... Basil
James Logan ... Lieutenant
Mary Field ... Wee Shop Clerk
Beatrice Roberts ... Mother
Cynthia Corley ... Nurse
Tom Stevenson ... Charlie - Waiter
Mary Somerville ... Lady Trebshaw
Dick Ryan ... Waiter
Robert Hyatt ... Little Boy
Ivan Browning ... Sidney

Director: Irving Pichel

RUNNING TIME: 89 MIN