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A sailor, mariner, or seaman is a person who navigates water-borne vessels or assists in their operation, maintenance, or service. The term can apply to professional mariners, military personnel, and recreational sailors as well as a plethora of other uses. Etymologically, the name preserves the memory of the time when ships were commonly powered by sails, but it applies to the personnel of all vessels, whatever their mode of locomotion.
Professioners have left the industry and led noteworthy lives in the naval services or on the shore. For example, Traian Băsescu started his career as a third mate in 1976 and is now the President of Romania. Arthur Phillip joined the Merchant Navy in 1751 and 37 years later founded Sydney, Australia. Merchant mariner Douglass North went from seaman to navigator to winning the 1993 Nobel Prize in Economics.
Seafarers hold a variety of professions and ranks, each of which carries unique responsibilities which are integral to the successful operation of an ocean-going vessel. A ship's crew can generally be divided into four main categories: the deck department, the engineering department, the steward's department, and other.
Actors: Tim Monich (miscellaneous crew), William Hurt (actor), K. Lynn Martin (miscellaneous crew), Howard Samuelsohn (miscellaneous crew), Gael García Bernal (actor), Laura Harring (actress), Marco Perella (actor), Edward R. Pressman (producer), Brady Coleman (actor), Dan Eggleston (actor), Nicole Holt (actress), Paul Dano (actor), Jenni Wieland (miscellaneous crew), Joaquin Diego Prange (miscellaneous crew), Spencer Greenwood (actor),
Plot: A motiveless malignancy? Elvis leaves the Navy and heads for Texas where he contacts his father, whom he's never met, the pastor at a Christian community church. Pastor Dave tells Elvis to stay away and, without telling his family that Elvis is his son from a pre-conversion liaison, tells them to have nothing to do with him. But Elvis has already connected with Malerie, the pastor's 16-year old daughter. Elvis embarks on the seduction of Malerie, while Dave examines his conscience and comes to a new conclusion. Can anyone get right with the Lord? Does the Lord hear?
Keywords: absent-father, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, aircraft-carrier, american-flag, applause, archer, arson, band, bare-breasts, bare-chested-maleActors: William S. Gilbert (writer), Arthur Sullivan (composer), Richard Suart (actor), Donald Maxwell (actor), John Reed (miscellaneous crew), Mark Ashmore (actor), Patricia Leonard (actress), Gaby Santinelli (actress), Ben Newhouse-Smith (actor), Lucy Fussell (actress), Nathanial Gibbs (actor), Bridget Hardy (actress), Richard Barrowclough (actor), Kate Brian (actress), Anthea Kempston (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance,Actors: Peter Firth (actor), Tiina Kaukanen (costume designer), Matti Onnismaa (actor), Jan-Eric Nyström (miscellaneous crew), Kimmo Taavila (editor), Erkki Astala (miscellaneous crew), Antti Reini (actor), Veikko Aaltonen (editor), Veikko Aaltonen (director), Clarke Peters (actor), John Castle (actor), Juuso Hirvikangas (actor), Neil Hardwick (miscellaneous crew), Mauri Sumén (composer), Markku Peltola (actor),
Genres: Drama, Thriller,Actors: Nils Poppe (writer), Bellan Roos (actress), Yvonne Lombard (actress), Svea Holst (actress), Harriet Andersson (actress), Georg Skarstedt (actor), Einar Axelsson (actor), Sigge Fürst (actor), Sven-Eric Gamble (actor), Sten Ardenstam (actor), Göthe Grefbo (actor), Gösta Bernhard (actor), Fritiof Billquist (actor), Stig Olin (director), Nils Poppe (actor),
Plot: Fabian Bom has been sent by the Export Association to promote the Swedish export to Spain. He travels with the navy's cruiser to Barcelona, but his jealous fiancée Gullan has followed him in secrecy to keep an eye on him. In Barcelona the usually strict and virtuous Bom is surrounded by the local women and has a ball. He meets the young and zestful Linnea from Sweden.
Keywords: navy, sequel, spainActors: Tennessee Williams (writer), Max Steiner (composer), Richard Bartell (actor), Sarah Edwards (actress), Irving Rapper (director), Milo Anderson (costume designer), Louise Lorimer (actress), Jane Wyman (actress), Jerry Wald (producer), Tennessee Williams (writer), Kirk Douglas (actor), Arthur Kennedy (actor), Sean McClory (actor), Philip Ahn (actor), Ralph Sanford (actor),
Plot: This first movie version of the Tennessee Williams play about a faded, aging Southern belle, her shy, crippled daughter and her "selfish dreamer" of a son more or less sticks to the original story, except for a compromise ending which strives to be more upbeat.
Keywords: aging, based-on-play, brother-sister-relationship, collection, cripple, dancing, daydreaming, dead-end, dinner, domineering-motherActors: Paul Harvey (actor), Sam Harris (actor), Jesse Graves (actor), Brooks Benedict (actor), Ernie Adams (actor), Reginald Gardiner (actor), Fred Graham (actor), William 'Billy' Benedict (actor), Wilson Benge (actor), Eugene Borden (actor), Harlan Briggs (actor), Chick Chandler (actor), Harry Depp (actor), Lex Barker (actor), Wilbur Mack (actor),
Plot: Katharine Hilliard, mousy dean of a stuffy music school, meets and is insulted by swing band leader Barry Clayton on a train. To "show" him she takes a friend's advice, removes her glasses, and puts on a designer gown. Naturally, she becomes gorgeous. Soon, both Barry and crooner Jimmy Hale are after her, and she finds herself in the midst of triangles and misunderstandings.
Keywords: bandleader, classical-music, music-school, musician, swing-musicActors: Carl M. Leviness (actor), Ernie Adams (actor), Tom Kennedy (actor), Leonard Bremen (actor), Don Brodie (actor), Fred Aldrich (actor), Lane Chandler (actor), Dick Crockett (actor), Hume Cronyn (actor), Donald Curtis (actor), Marcel De la Brosse (actor), Harry Depp (actor), John Carroll (actor), Sam Finn (actor), Norman Lloyd (actor),
Plot: Evie's co-workers at the uniform shirt factory, and her almost-fiancée's inability to kiss, inspire her to slip a letter into a size sixteen-and-a-half shirt for some anonymous soldier. It's received by "Wolf" Larson, who immediately throws it away, but his sensitive, dreaming--and short--buddy John McPherson snags it, and begins a correspondence with Evie, pretending to be Wolf. But things get complicated when Evie wants to meet her tall, handsome soldier. And even more complicated when Wolf sees Evie and likes what he sees.
Keywords: kitten, letter, mistaken-identity, pen-pal, wartime-romance, world-war-twoActors: Teuvo Tulio (editor), Paavo Jännes (actor), Otto Noro (actor), Sven Relander (actor), Teuvo Tulio (producer), Tapio Ilomäki (composer), Teuvo Tulio (director), Ida Salmi (actress), Lida Salin (actress), Lauri Korpela (actor), Fritz-Hugo Backman (actor), Kosti Aaltonen (actor), Oscar Tengström (actor), Sven Ehrström (actor), Kunto Karapää (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Robert St. Angelo (actor), Rodd Redwing (actor), Bobby Barber (actor), Dan Seymour (actor), Eddie Acuff (actor), Stanley Price (actor), Paul McVey (actor), Luis Alberni (actor), Eddie Bracken (actor), Frank Marlowe (actor), Marc Lawrence (actor), Allen Fox (actor), Reed Hadley (actor), Alex Montoya (actor), Robert R. Stephenson (actor),
Plot: Three merchant seamen fleeing the Japanese take refuge on a Pacific island, where they come across a doctor and his daughter who take care of the natives, a hostile tribe that wants to kill the sailors for trespassing on their sacred ground.
Keywords: castaway, daughter, island, natives, sailorActors: George W. Weeks (miscellaneous crew), Lionel Belmore (actor), Johnny Mack Brown (actor), Jack Evans (actor), Herman Hack (actor), Pat Harmon (actor), Raymond Hatton (actor), Jack Hendricks (actor), Ralph Ince (actor), Dick Rush (actor), E. Mason Hopper (director), Byron Robinson (editor), Ted Adams (actor), Blackie Whiteford (actor), Dorothy Burgess (actress),
Genres: Drama,They say it takes a worried man to sing a worried song
For when that man starts singing you'd be surprised
How many people sing along, sing along, yeah, sing along
Don't worry sailor, this ship is yours and youæ®e learning more each day
Don't worry sailor, your heart and mind and eyes will find a way
People been telling you for so long that you're running across thin ice, yeah
But now and then you feel too strong to take up their advice
Going into town with those high hopes and a couple of dreams long inside
Leave town with no money, no
And all those dreams have been foolish schemes besides
No money, no dreams - it don't seem much
Looks like all I could ever hope to see
Don't worry sailor, this ship is yours and youæ®e learning more each day
Don't worry sailor, your heart and mind and eyes will find a way
People been telling you for so long that you're running across thin ice, yeah
But now and then you feel too strong to take up their advice, yeah
Take up their advice, yeah, whoa,