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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Kenneth Earl (story) &
M.M. Musselman (story) ...
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Release Date:
July 1944 (USA) more
Tagline:
M.G.M's Mammoth Technicolor Musical Spectacle!
Plot:
Songwriter Steve Elliott is about to marry Caroline Brooks. A strange woman who's been paid by Steve's... more | add synopsis
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A lavish water spectacle... more (17 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Red Skelton | ... | Steve Elliot |
 | Esther Williams | ... | Caroline Brooks |
| Basil Rathbone | ... | George Adams |
| Bill Goodwin | ... | Professor Willis Evans |
| Jean Porter | ... | Jean Allenwood |
| Nana Bryant | ... | Dean Clinton |
| Carlos Ramírez | ... | Himself |
| Ethel Smith | ... | Ethel Smith - Music Teacher |
| Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra | ... | Themselves |
| Lina Romay | ... | Herself |
| Harry James and His Music Makers | ... | Themselves |
| Helen Forrest | ... | Herself - Singer with Harry James and His Music Makers |
| Donald Meek | ... | Chester Klazenfrantz |
| Jacqueline Dalya | ... | Maria Dorango |
| Francis Pierlot | ... | Professor Hendricks |
Additional Details
Also Known As:
The Co-Ed (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
101 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #9966) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | USA:TV-G (TV rating) | Australia:G | West Germany:16 | Argentina:Atp | Canada:F (Ontario) | Finland:S | Sweden:Btl
Filming Locations:
Lakeside Country Club - 4500 W. Lakeside Drive, Toluca Lake, Los Angeles, California, USA
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At the time of its release, this was MGM's third-highest grossing film, after Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) and Gone with the Wind (1939). more
Quotes:
George Adams:
But he doesn't like pools!
Themselves:
Wait till you see what's in it!
George Adams:
Don't tell me it's a woman - he'd never fall for a bathing suit.
Themselves:
Wait till you see what's in it!
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Referenced in "The Simpsons: Bart of Darkness (#6.1)" (1994) more
Soundtrack:
Boogie Woogie more
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One MGM musical of the time launched a career that flourished for the balance of the decade… A champion swimmer and a tall, strikingly pretty woman, Esther Williams had played small roles in two MGM films when she was starred in "Bathing Beauty." She played a swimming teacher at a girls' school whose husband (Red Skelton) enrolls at the school to be near her...
The plot was merely an excuse for knockabout antics by Skelton and especially for Williams' aquacades… The pattern was fixed for the rest of the series of popular light musicals she starred in: Williams as a smiling mermaid moving balletically underwater to the strains of a pleasing melody…
Bathing Beauty's finale is a lavish water spectacle with the star as the focal point of intricate underwater formations…