Skirts Ahoy!

Having arrived each with their own back-stories and character sketches, their first morning in the barracks, Joan Evans as Mary Kate, Vivian Blaine as Yancy leading the song by Harry Warren and Ralph Blane, finding top-billed Esther Williams, and a fancy MGM montage, in Skirts Ahoy!, 1952.

Three “WAVES” (In WWII lingo, Women Accepted For Volunteer Emergency Service), Esther Williams, Vivian Blaine blonde Yancy, Joan Evans redhead Mary Kate, on leave in Chicago short of ideas, but with an original song by Harry Warren and Ralph Blane, in MGM’s Skirts Ahoy!, 1952.

Esther Williams as outstanding U.S. Navy WAVES recruit Whitney, gets chosen as her company officer, and celebrates with a song by Harry Warren and Ralph Blane, supported by all five DeMarco sisters, in MGM’s Skirts Ahoy!, 1952.

Three women join the Navy to find husbands in the MGM Technicolor musical Skirts Ahoy! (1952) starring Esther Williams.