Archive through July 6 2006

[Erik Wood]

Interesting info on the Juggernaut boat. Thanks for sharing.

 

[David Allen Koppang]

Man, that's just adding insult to injury. You know, after hitting ice aboard the ship, I'd probably use the reduced fare offer on ANOTHER ship. But that's just me. Maxim Gorky's a funny sort of name anyways.

 

[Jeremy Lee]

I would like to ask - I have read from somewhere that in the show Raise the Titanic!, a Greek ship Athenai (don't know if this is the correct spelling) was used. Shouldn't be the ship of the same name that was in the vicinity of the Titanic when she sank right?

 

[Jesse D O'Neill]

im not sure if anyone mentioned this yet, but Andrea Doria was in a movie, im pretty sure it wasnt the actual ship, though it was still pretty interesting, and dont forget Voyage of the Damned, i never saw the movie, but i have the book. if anyone can tell me the name of the movie im thinking about for the Doria that would be greatly appreciated, it was in B&W when i saw it and on AMC.

 

[Dr. Douglas B. Willingham]

Hi, Jesse.

In "on the Waterfront" with Brando, there is a scene on a rooftop where his character's pidgeons are housed. In the background, coming up the Hudson, is either the "Andrea Doria" or "Cristoforo Colombo".

Could that be the movie you're thinking about?

Regards,
Doug

 

[Jesse D O'Neill]

maybe, though in message i mention its about the ship sinking and that it wasnt the actual the ship. though the Queen mary appears in Blood Work a number of times.

 

[Jeremy Lee]

I watched the 1940 movie Road to Singapore yesterday, and was wondering in one of the final scenes, there was a side view of a ship that looked really like Normandie.

 

[Iain Stuart Yardley]

Whilst reading up on the "Estonia" I came across "Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair" (1990) starring Burt Lancaster and Rebecca Schaeffer. Incidentally, Schaeffer, a 21-year old up-and-coming actress was shot dead by a crazed fan just months before the film's release:

http://uk.imdb.com/name/nm0769726/bio

Also, "Baltic Storm" about the sinking of the Estonia was realeased last year, starring Greta Scacchi and Donald Sutherland.

 

[Jim Kalafus]

If you can stomach it, the Liberte is featured in the Jane Russell 3-D film "The French Line" but, frankly, you'll want to turn the sound down and scan for the liner footage because this is not a "so bad it's good" film....it's a "so bad it's painful" viewing experience. Did have the slogans "Jane Russell in 3-D She'll knock BOTH your eyes out!" and the insipid "THAT song! THAT Dance! See The French Line." but the advertising was more amusing and lurid than was the film.

 

[Mike Anderson]

If it hasn't been mentioned yet, the Normandie appears in the first few minutes of Citizen Kane, during the opening newsreel. It's a fantastic, if short, aerial shot.

 

[Iain Stuart Yardley]

Caught a bit of Stephen King's Rose Red the other night and a photo of a four-stacker (not any of the Olympic class liners) was passed off as something like the "Ocean Voyager" or something like that. Any ideas?

 

[Shelley Dziedzic]

Normandie gets a cameo also in Hitchcock's Saboteur, lying on her side at the pier. What's the ship used in An Affair to Remember? Looks like U.S. Lines.

 

[Jim Kalafus]

Normandie appears in the Woody Allen movie Zelig.

 

[Kyle Johnstone]

Hi Shelley,

The ship in "An Affair to Remember" is the Constitution. The same ship that Lucy, Ricky, Fred and Ethel sailed to Europe on!

 

[Brandon McKinney]

Aquitania gets a couple mentions and appears in a stock footage clip in the 1936 Myrna Loy/Spencer Tracy film, "Whipsaw"

There was another ship... a small ship with two black funnels, I think, in a 30's Kay Francis. Francis's sidekick in this film was the lovely Glenda Farrel (Of Torchy Blane Fame.) Anyone have an idea as to the ship? I don't remember the movie's name too well.