Research Catalog

Title

Bathing beauty [videorecording]

Publication

1944.

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Additional Authors

• Williams, Esther, 1921-2013
• Skelton, Red, 1913-1997.
• Paige, Janis.
• Cugat, Xavier, 1900-1990.
• Donohue, Jack, 1908-1984
• Alton, Robert, 1897-1957
• Anderson, John Murray
• Sidney, George, 1916-2002
• Sharaff, Irene.

Description

1 cassette. 112 min. : sd. color NTSC.; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

A songwriter enrolls in a women's college in hopes of winning back his estranged wife, a swimming coach.

Note

• Motion picture originally released in 1944 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; re-released as a videocassette in 1991 by MGM/UA Home Video, Culver City, California. Producer: Jack Cummings. Director: George Sidney.
• Choreography: Jack Donohue and Robert Alton. Water ballet: John Murray Anderson. Screenplay: Dorothy Kingsley, Allen Boretz, and Frank Waldman, based on an original story by Kenneth Earl, M. M. Musselman, and Curtis Kenyon. Adaptation: Joseph Schrank. Art direction: Cedric Gibbons, Stephen Goosson, and Merrill Pye. Costume supervision: Irene [Sharaff?]. Water ballet costumes: [Irene?] Sharaff.

Performer (note)

• Esther Williams (Caroline Brooks), Red Skelton (Steve Elliott), Basil Rathbone (George Adams), Bill Goodwin (Willis Evans), Jean Porter (Jean Allenwood), Nana Bryant (Dean Clinton), Carlos Ramirez (Carlos), Ann Codee (Madame Zarka), Jacqueline Dalya (Maria Dorango), Janis Paige (Janis), Harry James and his Music Makers with Helen Forrest, Xavier Cugat and his Orchestra with Lina Romay, and others.

Contents

DANCE CONTENTS: "I'll take the high note," sung and danced by Skelton, Paige (?), others. -- Latin American production number, perf. by Cugat and his Orchestra, singers, dancers. -- Madame Zarka's eurythmics class [actually a ballet class], perf. by Skelton, female ensemble. Music: Tchaikovsky (excerpts from The nutcracker). -- Water ballet, perf. by Williams, female ensemble, James and his Music Makers.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-1335

ISBN

079280676X

OCLC

• 80536462
• NYPY926006188-F

Title

Bathing beauty [videorecording]

Imprint

1944.

Cast

Esther Williams (Caroline Brooks), Red Skelton (Steve Elliott), Basil Rathbone (George Adams), Bill Goodwin (Willis Evans), Jean Porter (Jean Allenwood), Nana Bryant (Dean Clinton), Carlos Ramirez (Carlos), Ann Codee (Madame Zarka), Jacqueline Dalya (Maria Dorango), Janis Paige (Janis), Harry James and his Music Makers with Helen Forrest, Xavier Cugat and his Orchestra with Lina Romay, and others.

Local Subject

Motion pictures. Bathing beauty.

Water ballet.

Synchronized swimming.

Comedy in dance.

Added Author

Williams, Esther, 1921-2013, performer.

Skelton, Red, 1913-1997. Performer

Paige, Janis. Performer

Cugat, Xavier, 1900-1990. Performer

Donohue, Jack, 1908-1984, choreographer.

Alton, Robert, 1897-1957, choreographer.

Anderson, John Murray, choreographer.

Sidney, George, 1916-2002, film director.

Sharaff, Irene. Costume designer

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-1335