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Hoping to win back his estranged swimming-coach wife (Esther Williams), a lovestruck songwriter (Red Skelton) enrolls in a women's college, and graduates "summa cum laude" in Comedy! Red's in rare form and Esther's in form-fitting swimsuite in this delighfully dizzy musical farce. BATHING BEAUTY begins with a splash: Xavier Cugat plays, Red clowns and Esther plunges into a pool. From there, things go, well... swimmingly. The college is loaded with pretty MGM starlets. Cugie shakes up more hot South American rhythms. A fine cast, including Basil Rathbone, Donald Meek, Janis Paige, and Groucho Marx's favorite foil, Margaret Dumont, gives expert support. The finale is a wowser of a water ballet featuring the movies' favoring bathing beauty swimming gracefully along alternating jets of water and falme. But Esther isn't the only artistic lovely. Red dons a pink tutu for a college ballet class and reduces Tchaikovsky to chopped liver. Dive in!
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Where's the DVD?,
By M. Johnson (Harrold, SD) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Bathing Beauty (1944) (VHS Tape)
A genuine 'morale movie' from WWII, this movie is genuine entertainment! Dancing, swimming, Technicolor, and good, clean fun! It's amazing that more people don't know about this movie; it seems to be more well-known in China than the U.S. Where's the DVD?
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A Great Comedy!,
By Mrs. Diane Mulford (Atlanta, GA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bathing Beauty (1944) (VHS Tape)
Esther Williams is known for her swimming and light romance/musical films. This is a great comedy with Red Skelton. I thought it was a nice change of pace and well done. The music is first class and in my opinion it's worth buying for the musical numbers alone. There's a fabulous organ piece, a hilarious take on an Irish Ballad with Harry James and his Music Makers as well as music by Xavier Cugat who I absolutely love and is a big reason why I buy the Esther Williams movies. Esther Wms and Red Skelton marry but the wedding is interrupted by a woman hired by Red's publisher to make false accusations again Red Skelton, claiming he is her husband and father of their 3 children. Esther returns to her job in an all-girl school w/a loophole in their charter that allows Red to register as a student. The laughs and music never stop. It's a very entertaining and lovely film. The VHS was great quality and I'm very happy with it.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Youth revisited!,
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This review is from: Bathing Beauty (1944) (VHS Tape)
Bathing Beauty was a musical visit to my youth; rekindling memories of WW 2 and Senior School. Williams swimming scenes and stylish strokes and the music (especially Ethel Smith on the Hammond organ) made watching the movie fun, especially as those instruments, which combined harmonics to synthesise the sound(s) desired, were so versatile once one understood the function of the drawbars. I think this is the movie which best displays the sound of the Hammond, now, unfortunately, almost extinct!My "talks" on "The Big Band Era" will be enriched by the other bands featured too.
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