Product Details

• Actors: Esther Williams, Red Skelton, Ricardo Montalban, Betty Garrett, Keenan Wynn
• Directors: Edward Buzzell
• Writers: Dorothy Kingsley
• Producers: Jack Cummings
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
• VHS Release Date: February 24, 1995
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6301971310
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #113,767 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

According to its opening voiceover, Neptune's Daughter is "a story about a guy, a girl, and a bathing suit." Oh, but it's so much more than that. Esther Williams plays Eve, a (surprise!) swimming champion who gives up her amateur status to design and model swimwear. She also plays chaperone to her boy-crazy sister Betty, who is determined to meet Jose (Ricardo Montalban), the captain of the visiting South American polo team--only instead she mistakenly meets amiable masseur Red Skelton, who she thinks is Jose, and meanwhile... well, it's best not to think about the plot. It'll just make your head hurt and it's really not the point, is it? The point is a charming romance between Williams and Montalban; the music, including the Oscar-winning "Baby, It's Cold Outside"; and Xavier Cugat and his orchestra playing the kind of song-and-dance numbers that seem to require a wind machine inside the nightclub. And just when you think the movie is going to end without a hilariously elaborate water ballet number, Esther comes through for you. --Ali Davis

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Classic!, December 2, 1999

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This review is from: Neptune's Daughter [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Ester Williams gives a classic performance here with the help of her supporting cast. Romantically sweet and wholesome it is an example of what moives should be. Neptune's Daughter is a great mix of comedy and romance with songs like "Baby, It's cold outside". The perfect movie to watch curled up in front of the fireplace with someone special. Absolutely one of my favorites!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Baby It's Cold Outside!, June 3, 2002

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Jennifer M. Gordon "glamourgrl6" (Westwood NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Neptune's Daughter [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is one of the best Esther Williams that I had seen as a child and I still love watching it today. It is not your usual romantic boy meets girl type of movie but there are a lot of laughs thanks to Red Skelton! The swim scenes are just great especially if you are a big fan of syncronize swimming

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Typical Esther Williams, February 21, 2003

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R. Martin (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Neptune's Daughter [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Neptune's Daughter is a farcical story of an Olympic swimmer named Eve who becomes a swimsuit designer. As a result of her beauty and talent in the pool, a businessman proposes that Eve join his swimsuit firm as head designer and model. Ester Williams as Eve plays the part of the 'trained seal' who designs the swimsuits. Her other charge is her little sister Betty, an unhappily unmarried woman determined to do just about anything to rectify her man-less situation. As we can see, poor Eve has her hands full. Not only is she a competent career woman, she must also baby-sit Betty as she throws herself at the South American polo team (appropriately coming to town for the North-South American polo match that month). Of course, the handsome man comes along (Josè, the captain of said polo team) and despite many silly mix-ups, all works out in the end: Eve and Betty both get married to their respective men and the world is set straight again.

The movie's premise is beyond hope: of course an amateur swimmer who looks good in bathing suits becomes an overworked businesswoman in need for some serious love. Her outfits and glasses show that as a career woman, she cannot possibly have any fun. Though her suits are sexy, Eve in the workplace is not. She is hard at work and, as demanded by her boss in a personal manner, puts her work first. Of course, this unnatural state of composure and (heaven forbid) power is obviously all wrong. She needs a man to revive her romantic and womanly personality (for surely she cannot be both romantic and dedicated to her profession). Though Josè is a seducer at best, this time his intentions are `honorable.' It being the 1940's, Eve must accept his proposal because she cannot be a true woman otherwise. Thankfully, she does accept, and we end with the obligatory swimming delights. Eve and Josè dive and leap and swim in perfect synchrony, their happy partnership in the water supposedly mimicking their future together. Of course, any Esther Williams fan will love this movie-not only does she look good in her bathing suit, but she looks extremely sharp in all her other outfits as well. Esther Williams in any kind of suit is a gold star as far as I'm concerned