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Film Bathing Beauty (1944)

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There is a plot here — boy is engaged to girl, boy gets dumped by girl at altar, boy enrolls in all-girl college, girls teach boy how to win girl back. But, truth be told, it's the water-ballet sequence at the end of this Technicolor spectacular that makes Bathing Beauty a film to remember — and Esther Williams (sigh). Director George Sidney, who went on to create such classics as The Three Musketeers (1948), Pal Joey (1957), and Viva Las Vegas (1964), knew enough to give Williams her due, no matter how much the male lead, Red Skelton, minded. The results swim for themselves.

– John Hood

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