The New Pictures, Aug. 16, 1948

Mr. Peabody & the Mermaid (Universal-International). Mr. Peabody (William Powell), a proper Bostonian on vacation far from Beacon Street, hooks the Mermaid (Ann Blyth) in Caribbean waters. He keeps her first in his bathtub, then in his fish pond. He likes her, more than seems proper for a married man to like a mermaid. She likes him, too. She bites a girl who is flirting with him, and causes his jealous wife to huff back to Boston. In the long run the lovers have to part and a psychiatrist takes over with a full...

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