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Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948)
Directed by Irving Pichel
Overview
As told to a psychiatrist: Mr. Peabody, a middle-aged Bostonian on vacation with his wife in the Caribbean, hears mysterious, wordless singing on an uninhabited rock in the bay. Fishing in the vicinity, he catches…a mermaid. He takes her home and, though she has no spoken language, falls in love with her. Of course, his wife won’t believe that the thing in the bathtub is anything but a large fish.
Rated NR | Length 89 minutes
Actors
William Powell | Ann Blyth | Irene Hervey | Andrea King | Clinton Sundberg | Art Smith | Hugh French | Beatrice Roberts | Lumsden Hare | Mary Field | Cynthia Corley | Frederick Clarke