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Here come the Waves (1944) was a Comedy - Musical Film directed by Mark Sandrich and produced by Mark Sandrich.

SYNOPSIS

In this snappy Crosby musical comedy, he plays a popular Sinatra-like crooner doing Navy WAVE shows who meets identical twins (both played by Hutton). He falls hard but can't tell one from the other - and one twin hates him. Arlen-Mercer score includes "That Old Black Magic" and Academy Award-nominated "Accentuate the Positive."

(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).

Academy Awards 1945 --- Ceremony Number 18 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best Music - SongMusic by Harold Arlen; Lyrics by Johnny MercerNominated
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Musical Monday: Here Come the WAVES (1944)

on May 25, 2020 From Comet Over Hollywood

It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: Here Come the WAVES (194... Read full article

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Here come the Waves Facts
A sprightly mock-gospel number, the 1945 Oscar-nominated "Ac-Cen-Tchu-Ate the Positive" (music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by Johnny Mercer) was represented on the "Billboard" singles chart by a couple of second-place finishers: one 78 via Decca Records by Bing Crosby, teamed with The Andrews Sisters (who did not appear in the picture), plus another 78 on Capitol from singer-songwriter Johnny Mercer, supported by The Pied Pipers (who were not featured in the movie).
A major point in the film is that Johnny Cabot (Bing Crosby) is colorblind. This was true in real life. "He will think something is a beautiful blue," his wife once explained, "and it will turn out to be a bilious green." His loud clothing was the butt of many jokes, especially by Bob Hope.
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
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