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MGM’s 1950 Technicolor romantic musical film Pagan Love Song stars high-spirited Esther Williams and Howard Keel, with the 19-year-old Rita Moreno in her first major role. Director Robert Alton’s 1950 MGM American Technicolor romantic musical […]
Star power. Esther Williams said she disliked MGM’s original ‘cotton sleeveless T-shirt’ swimsuits and designed her own swimsuit for Skirts Ahoy! (1952) and then persuaded the director of the US Navy to make it their […]
Director Richard Thorpe’s 1948 musical Technicolor romantic comedy film On an Island with You stars Esther Williams, Peter Lawford, Jimmy Durante, Ricardo Montalban, Cyd Charisse, Xavier Cugat, Leon Ames and Marie Windsor. MGM’s colourful, escapist musical concerns a swimming […]
Director Edward Buzzell’s 1949 Technicolor musical romantic comedy film Neptune’s Daughter is a pleasing MGM Esther Williams aquatic musical, memorable for the Oscar-winning song, ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside’ (Frank Loesser), sung by Esther Williams and […]
‘Jungle-clad princess… man-killing monsters… in land of screaming terror!’ The 1952 Monogram Pictures black and white adventure film Bomba and the Jungle Girl is written and directed by Ford Beebe and again stars Johnny Sheffield, […]
You must remember this? Socialite brings libel case against a newspaper editor who can’t marry until he gets a reporter buddy to compromise her. Director Edward Buzzell’s 1946 Easy to Wed is MGM’s glossy, popular Technicolor […]
Director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1952 MGM Technicolor musical Million Dollar Mermaid [The One Piece Bathing Suit] is a wet and washed-out biography of Annette Kellermann [Kellerman] (6 July 1887 – 6 November 1975), the turn-of-the-last-century champion […]