Container of (work): Bathing beauty (Motion picture) Container of (work): Neptune's daughter (Motion picture) Container of (work): On an island with you (Motion picture) Container of (work): Dangerous when wet (Motion picture)
Notes:
Title from container. Bathing beauty: Originally released as a motion picture in 1944. Neptune's Daughter: Originally released as a motion picture in 1949. On an island with you: Originally released as a motion picture in 1948. Dangerous when wet: Originally released as a motion picture in 1953. Bathing beauty: Red Skelton, Esther Williams, Basil Rathbone, Bill Goodwin, Ethel Smith, Jean Porter, Carlos Ramirez, Harry James and his Music Makers, Helen Forrest, Xavier Cugat and his Orchestra, Lina Romay. Neptune's Daughter: Esther Williams, Red Skelton, Ricardo Montalban, Betty Garrett, Keenan Wynn, Xavier Cugat and his Orchestra. On an island with you: Esther Williams, Peter Lawford, Ricardo Montalban, Jimmy Durante, Cyd Charisse, Xavier Cugat and his Orchestra. Dangerous when wet: Esther Williams, Fernando Lamas, Jack Carson, Charlotte Greenwood, Denise Darcel, William Demarest, Donna Corcoran On an island with you: From an original story by Charles Martin and Hans Wilhelm.
Contents:
[Disc 1]: Bathing beauty (101 mins.) / screenplay by Dorothy Kingsley, Allen Boretz and Frank Waldman ; adaptation by Joseph Schrank ; directed by George Sidney -- Neptune's daughter (95 mins.) / screen play by Dorothy Kingsley ; directed by Edward Buzzell. [Disc 2]: On an island with you (107 mins.) / screenplay by Dorothy Kingsley, Dorothy Cooper, Charles Martin and Hans Wilhelm ; directed by Richard Thorpe -- Dangerous when wet (95 mins.) / written by Dorothy Kingsley ; directed by Charles Walters.
Summary:
Bathing beauty: Hoping to win back his estranged swimming-coach wife, a lovestruck songwriter enrolls in a women's college. Neptune's Daughter: Scatterbrained Betty Barrett mistakes masseur Jack Spratt for Jose O'Rourke, the captain of the South American polo team. Spratt goes along with the charade, but the situation becomes more complicated when they fall in love. Meanwhile, Betty's sensible older sister Eve fears Betty's heart will be broken when Jose returns to South America. She arranges to meet with the real O'Rourke and love soon blossoms between them as well. On an island with you: Lawrence Kingslee is a young navy lieutenant who is brought in as techninical adviser on a song-dance-and-swim film being made by screen star Rosalind Reynolds. Having once done a number with her, and been kissed at the end of a Forces show, Lawrence somehow believes she should be his girl. Her boyfriend, on the other hand, a fellow co-star of Rosalind, is just one of those who disagrees. Dangerous when wet: A farm girl travels with her family to England to take part in a competition to swim the English Channel. Before she can get too wet, she finds romance with a dashing Frenchman.
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