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Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948)

Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948)

Comedy Romance Fantasy

Lucky Mr. Peabody...Everybody thought he was DREAMING!

Release Date: 1948, August 11
Directors: Irving Pichel
Countries: United States of America
Production: Nunnally Johnson Productions, Universal International Pictures
Cast: Winifred Harris, James Logan, Lumsden Hare, William Powell, Dick Ryan, Clinton Sundberg, Mary Field, Robert Hyatt, Art Smith, Beatrice Roberts, Ann Blyth, Andrea King

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.

Keywords:

told in flashback mermaid marital crisis mid-life crisis underwater photography swimming underwater