was renamed Furansu Maru; the French flag was replaced with the Japanese flag Just before being scrapped, the ship was used as a floating prop for the 1960 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer disaster film The Last Voyage with the fictional name SS Claridon. The CGT sued MGM to have the ship's funnels repainted and prohibit the name Île de France from appearing on the ship in the movie. The movie was filmed almost entirely in the Sea of Japan off the coast of Osaka. During filming, the ship was partially sunk, explosive devices were detonated in the interior, and the forward funnel was sent crashing into the deck-house. After the film was finished, the Japanese scrappers refloated the vessel and towed her to the scrap yard. She was fully scrapped by 1961. Eaton's Ninth Floor In 1931 the ninth floor restaurant in Eaton's Department Store, Montreal, Canada, was styled after the first class restaurant aboard the ship. Lady Eaton, the store owner's wife, had just travelled on the liner and requested the style of the Île de France. In popular culture In the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movie Swing Time, Rogers, Dorothy Fields's lyrics to "A Fine Romance", sung by a frustrated Rogers to a disinterested Astaire, include the line, "You're just as hard to land as the Île de France." See also SS Liberté Compagnie Générale Transatlantique'' Pierre-Marie Poisson References Further reading External links Great Ships: Ile de France Monsters of the Sea: Ile de France The Great Ocean Liners: Ile de France "Full Speed Ahead", January 1933, Popular Mechanics article on Ile de France Ocean liners Passenger ships of France Art Deco ships Ships of the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique 1926 ships Ships built in France