Oh Sailor Behave

Oh Sailor Behave (1930) is a musical comedy produced and released by Warner Brothers. It was based on the play, See Naples and Die, written by Elmer Rice. It was originally intended to be entirely in Technicolor and was advertised as such in trade journals. Due to the backlash against musicals, it was apparently released in black-and-white only. An American newspaper reporter named Charlie Carroll (Charles King) falls for a young heiress named Na... more

Oh Sailor Behave (1930) is a musical comedy produced and released by Warner Brothers. It was based on the play, See Naples and Die, written by Elmer Rice. It was originally intended to be entirely in Technicolor and was advertised as such in trade journals. Due to the backlash against musicals, it was apparently released in black-and-white only. An American newspaper reporter named Charlie Carroll (Charles King) falls for a young heiress named Nanette Dodge (Irene Delroy) who is engaged to be married to a Prince Kasloff (Lowell Sherman) whom she does not love. After being rebuked by Nanette, the prince hires a Romanian general (Noah Beery) to kidnap her. Charlie, thinking she has eloped consoles himself with a local siren named Kunegundi (Vivien Oakland) until he realizes that she was kidnapped and set out to rescue her... Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson provide comic relief that is completely unrelated to the main story. They play the part of two American sailors who are stationed in... less