Bathing Beauty (1944)
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71% of users liked it
(753 ratings)
If you've never seen a '40s singing, swimming musical this may be the one to catch. Featuring a mammoth cast, including such notables as Xavier Cugat, Basil Rathbone, Red Skelton, and Esther Williams, this is a swimming spectacular. The plot's quite thin: Skelton plays a lovesick… More If you've never seen a '40s singing, swimming musical this may be the one to catch. Featuring a mammoth cast, including such notables as Xavier Cugat, Basil Rathbone, Red Skelton, and Esther Williams, this is a swimming spectacular. The plot's quite thin: Skelton plays a lovesick songwriter who enrolls in a girls' school to stay near his new wife who ditched him shortly after the wedding bells rang and was hired on as the college's swim teacher. Of course Esther Williams is the beautiful swimming instructor who spends most of her time in the pool performing in a score of choreographed pieces. ~ Rovi
- Directed By
- George Sidney II
- Written By
- Dorothy Kingsley
- Genres
- Musical & Performing Arts, Classics, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jun 27, 1944 Wide
- Studio
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Critic Reviews
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Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Director George Sidney has all the oomph and vulgarity required, but he can't do anything about Red Skelton, who takes up way too much time and space.
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Cast
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Red Skelton
as Steve Elliott
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Esther Williams
as Caroline Brooks
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Basil Rathbone
as George Adams
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Bill Goodwin
as Willis Evans
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Ethel Smith
as Music teacher
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Jean Porter
as Jean Allenwood
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Carlos Ramirez
as Carlos
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Donald Meek
as Chester Klazenfrantz
- Harry James & His Orchestra
- Helen Forrest
- Lina Romay
- Nana Bryant
- Ann Codee
- Jacqueline Dalya
- Margaret Dumont
- Sara Haden
- Janis Paige
- Francis Pierlot
- Almira Sessions
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Xavier Cugat
as Himself
