Bathing Beauty

Leaping in to story after an impertinent opening number, Red Skelton introduces his co-star Esther Williams, in her third film but her first all-out swim-spectacle, Xavier Cugat backing Carlos Ramirez on his own original song, in MGM’s Bathing Beauty, 1944.

Comedy with Red Skelton and Esther Williams, him a songwriter, her a swimming teacher, who walked out at their wedding after he was wrongly accused of being already married, now trying to win her back by enrolling at her school, Bill Goodwin the foil, in MGM’s Bathing Beauty, 1944.

The music is Strauss, the staging all MGM, and carrying the whole thing is the star Esther Williams, in the big closing number in her first big budget swimming spectacle, Bathing Beauty, 1944.

A songwriter enrolls in an all-girl school to court a pretty gym teacher in Bathing Beauty (1944), starring Red Skelton & Esther Williams.