Dames Ahoy
About Dames Ahoy
Sailors Jimmy Chase, Bill Jones, and Mac Dougal go looking for a blonde who swindled one of them out of half his pay. On shore they run into a different woman at a dance hall and win a contest.
Cast & crew
More about Dames Ahoy
William James Craft directed. Carl Laemmle produced. Sherman L. Lowe is the credited writer. Albert DeMond and Matt Taylor are also named on the script. Universal released a sound version and a silent version on 9 February 1930. Glenn Tryon plays Jimmy Chase, Otis Harlan plays Bill Jones, Eddie Gribbon plays Mac Dougal, Gertrude Astor plays the blonde, and Helen Wright plays Mabel McGuire.
Themes
Making
Craft shot it at Universal while the studio was still issuing silent versions of some talkies. The plot is a shore-leave chase that ends at a dance contest.
Look
Alan Jones photographed the sailors' search and the dance-hall contest.
Preservation
A print of the silent version survives, and a sound-era copy circulates.
Notes
- The on-screen title is often printed Dames Ahoy!
- Walter Brennan plays a sideshow barker. Andy Devine is a marine at the dance contest.
- Alice Belcher and Robert Dudley play a parson's wife and a parson. Franklyn Farnum is the master of ceremonies.
- Universal shipped a silent cut as well as the talkie.
- Alan Jones photographed it. Harry W. Lieb edited.
Scenes
- The three sailors start the shore leave by hunting the blonde who took half a paycheck.
- They win a contest at the dance hall with a woman who is not the one they came to find.