Port of Seven Seas

Port of Seven Seas is a 1938 drama film starring Wallace Beery and featuring Frank Morgan and Maureen O'Sullivan. The movie was written by Preston Sturges based on the plays of Marcel Pagnol and the films based on them, and was directed by James Whale (director of Frankenstein and The Invisible Man). The cinematography is by Karl Freund, who filmed Fritz Lang's Metropolis and I Love Lucy.

Plot

In the French port of Marseille, a lovely young woman named Madelon (Maureen O'Sullivan) is in love with a young sailor, Marius (John Beal). Madelon in turn is loved by Honore Panisse (Frank Morgan), a well-to-do middle-aged sailmaker. When Marius finds out he must go to sea for three years, he leaves without saying goodbye to Madelon; in a note he tells her that it would break his heart to tell her in person. She rushes to the dock, but sees his ship sailing away and faints. Marius's father Cesar, (Wallace Beery) who already thinks of Madelon as one of the family, carries her to her home.

Seven Seas

The "Seven Seas" (as in the idiom "sail the Seven Seas") is an ancient phrase for all the world's oceans. Since the 19th century, the term has been taken to include seven oceanic bodies of water:

The World Ocean is also collectively known as 'the sea'. The International Hydrographic Organization lists over 70 distinct bodies of water called seas.

Mesopotamia

The term "Seven Seas" appears as early as 2300 BC in Hymn 8 of the Sumerian Enheduanna to the goddess Inanna. The Mesopotamians were the first in the history of astronomy to keep records of the observed seven moving objects in the heavens – the seven Classical Planets/Seven Heavens – and they made this connection to their seven seas.

Route to China

In the 9th century AD, author Ya'qubi wrote:

Seven seas (disambiguation)

"Seven Seas" is a phrase used to encompass all the world's oceans in general.

Seven seas may also refer to:

See also

Seven Seas (album)

Seven Seas is a compilation album of Echo & the Bunnymen songs. It was released on 12 September 2005 in the United Kingdom and on 13 September 2005 in the United States where it is called Seven Seas: The Platinum Collection.

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