Bert Lahr

Ship Ahoy, a patriotic musical comedy of the WWII era, swings to the tempo of its big-band times. Eleanor Powell plays a leggy lead dancer on a cruise ship who is asked to transport a mine to Puerto Rico. Neither she nor her pulp-fiction-author beau (Red Skelton) knows she's actually working for spies –who got the idea from one of his potboiler novels! The supporting cast includes Bert Lahr (the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz) and Virginia O'Brien (Till the Clouds Roll By). All of the festivities are set to the swing of Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra featuring a very young Frank Sinatra as vocalist.

Farm girl Dorothy Gale and her dog are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz, and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home and fulfil the others' wishes.

Musical fans, we’re calling you, oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo! Howard Keel and Ann Blyth play stalwart Mountie and backwoods hellion in this grand and Cinemascope version of the beloved operetta.

Penny Hale is the daughter of a once wealthy architect and widower now ruined by the depression and working as the maintenance man. Always positive, she refuses to accept their drop in the world and believes prosperity is just around the corner.