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Esther Jane Williams (August 8, 1921 – June 6, 2013) was an American competitive swimmer and actress. She set regional and national records in her late teens on ...
Like all of Esther Williams' other films, On an Island with You was a moneymaker and did well at the box office as one of the most popular films of 1948. It earned $3,191,000 in the US and Canada and $2,091,000 overseas resulting in a profit to MGM of $816,000. [1] [8] Critics, however, recognized both the merits and shortcomings of the ...
In November 1947, it was announced Esther Williams would appear in a film set in Sun Valley, The Duchess of Idaho. Dorothy Cooper and Jerry Davis were assigned the script. [4] Robert Cummings was originally mentioned as a potential male lead [5] but the role went to Van Johnson, who had made three films with Williams before. A film unit left ...
Jupiter's Darling is a 1955 American Eastman Color musical romance film released by MGM and directed by George Sidney filmed in CinemaScope.It starred Esther Williams as the Roman woman Amytis, Howard Keel as Hannibal, the Carthaginian military commander and George Sanders as Fabius Maximus, Amytis's fiancé.
Thrill of a Romance (also known as Thrill of a New Romance) [2] is an American Technicolor romance film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1945, starring Van Johnson, Esther Williams and Carleton G. Young, with musical performances by Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra and opera singer Lauritz Melchior.
Neptune's Daughter Theatrical release poster Directed by Edward Buzzell Screenplay by Dorothy Kingsley Ray Singer (additional dialogue) Dick Chevillat (additional dialogue) Produced by Jack Cummings Starring Esther Williams Red Skelton Ricardo Montalbán Betty Garrett Cinematography Charles Rosher Edited by Cotton Warburton Music by Frank Loesser Color process Technicolor Production company ...
Skirts Ahoy! is a 1952 musical film directed by Sidney Lanfield, and starring Esther Williams, Vivian Blaine and Joan Evans.Shot in Technicolor, [2] the film follows several women who join the WAVES with sequences filmed on location at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station.
The 6 disc set was a follow-up to the company's Esther Williams Spotlight Collection, Volume 1, and contains digitally remastered versions of several of Williams's films including Thrill of a Romance (1945), This Time for Keeps (1947), Pagan Love Song (1950), Million Dollar Mermaid (1952) and Easy to Love (1953).