上映于1948年的喜剧《彼伯先生与美人鱼》，该片是由欧文·皮切尔执导，威廉·鲍威尔,安·布莱思,艾琳 赫维,安德丽·金等主演，作为一部优秀的喜剧，讲述了As told to a psychiatrist Mr. Peabody, middle-aged Bostonian on vacation with his wife in the Caribbean, hears mysterious, wordless singing on an uninhabited rock in the bay. Fishing in the vicinity, he catches...a mermaid. He takes her home and, though she has no spoken language, falls in love with her. Of course, his wife won't believe that thing in the bathtub is anything but a large fish. Predictable complications follow in rather tame fashion.