Bathing Beauty

1944

Comedy / Musical

7
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 76% · 5 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 76% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 2022 2K

musical romantic comedy romcom girls' boarding school swimming pool swimmer

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Plot summary

After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a legal loophole allows him to enroll as one of her students.

Director

George Sidney Photo
George Sidney

Top cast

Beverly Tyler Photo
Beverly Tyler as Co-Ed
Janis Paige Photo
Janis Paige as Janis
Sarah Edwards Photo
Sarah Edwards as Faculty Member
Elspeth Dudgeon Photo
Elspeth Dudgeon as Miss Travers
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
933.84 MB
1280*934
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 41 min
Seeds 4
1.69 GB
1480*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 41 min
Seeds 11

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by everlybr 6 / 10

A Great PWP (Plot, What Plot?) Wartime Morale Movie

The lack of plot is part of what is fun.Released during the middle of WWII, it is a rather obvious excuse to show beautiful women in bathing suits and have lots of really good musical numbers. There are several wonderful location shots, even though most of it was filmed on a sound stage. One of the locations look likes it was filmed in Palm Springs.Red Skelton is adorable if a bit typecast. Ester Williams is stunningly beautiful and graceful.All in all a thoroughly enjoyable, if silly, movie. A great movie for family viewing especially with younger children.
Reviewed by bkoganbing 7 / 10

An Apt Title for Esther Williams's starring debut

The swimming routines of Esther Williams and the comedy of Red Skelton are timeless which is why Esther's debut as a star can be seen hundreds of years from now and not lose any entertainment value. Of course an appreciation of swing music and Latin music does help.Bathing Beauty which is certainly an appropriate title for Esther's first starring role has Red and Esther as newly minted newlyweds when some woman objects to the wedding saying she's already Red's wife.Red's a writer of swing music and his publisher Basil Rathbone deliberately arranged that incident to break up the marriage so Red can deliver some special material. However the minister beat out the objection with his 'I now pronounce you man and wife' so they are married, but Esther will get that annulled. But not if Red can help it. She goes back to her old job teaching at an all girl's college which Red enrolls at as a student to be near her to plead his case. At this point the rather thin plot is just a frame for the various routines and numbers done by the stars and with guest performers like Harry James and his Orchestra, Xavier Cugat and his Orchestra and the famous Tico Tico girl Ethel Smith doing, what else Tico Tico on the organ. Also orchestra vocalists Helen Forrest with James and Lina Romay with Cugat have some good numbers.Basil Rathbone taking time off from playing Sherlock Holmes hams it up to beat both those featured bands in his role as the comic villain of the piece. Red does his usual clowning and is an adept musical performer in a swing version of Loch Lomond.But this film is strictly Esther and her final water ballet sequence was the first of many making use of that special tank MGM built for this very special star.You could remake this film today, but where would you ever come up with another Esther Williams or Red Skelton?
Reviewed by theowinthrop 7 / 10

Pleasant comedy, nice aquatics, and great color too

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