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6.0/10   82 votes
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Director:
Richard Thorpe
Writers:
Lorraine Fielding (story)
Erwin S. Gelsey (story)
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Release Date:
17 October 1947 (USA) more
Genre:
Musical more
Tagline:
A Show to Dream About! more
Plot:
A singing soldier (Johnny Johnston) newly returned home finds himself discontent to work in his father's... more | add synopsis
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Cast

  (Credited cast)
Esther Williams ... Leonora 'Nora' Cambaretti

Jimmy Durante ... Ferdi Farro
Lauritz Melchior ... Richard Herald
Johnny Johnston ... Dick Johnson (as Johnnie Johnston)
Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra ... Themselves
Dame May Whitty ... Grandmother Cambaretti
Sharon McManus ... Deborah Cambaretti
Dick Simmons ... Gordon
Mary Stuart ... Frances Allenbury
Ludwig Stössel ... Peter
Dorothy Porter ... Merle
Tommy Wonder ... Himself
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Xavier Cugat ... Himself - Orchestra Leader
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Additional Details

Runtime:
105 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Esther Williams was pregnant during the filming of this movie, unfortunately a couple months later she suffered a miscarriage. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in That's Entertainment! III (1994) more
Soundtrack:
La donna è mobile more

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2 out of 3 people found the following comment useful:-
Enjoyable entertainment, 25 May 2006
6/10
Author: ngc137 from Europe

The movie tells a simple, light-hearted love story between Leonora Cambaretti (Esther Williams), the leading swimmer in a water ballet show, and Ferdi Farro (Jimmy Durante), a singer who just returned from World War II. The plot is rather straight, without serious complications, harmless, sometimes naive, insubstantial. But within its limited scope it is well done and enjoyable.

As this is a musical movie, there is singing, dancing, and -- most remarkable -- the water ballet. The different numbers include some charming scenes. But you cannot compare the dancing with the wonderful performances that are known, for example, from Fred Astaire movies. Also the singing numbers do not reach the quality that is present, for instance, in "My Dream Is Yours" (with Doris Day as a singer), a movie that was produced at about the same time with a similar, though slightly more ambitious entertainment scope.

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