Bathing beauty (Motion picture) Easy to wed (Motion picture) On an island with you (Motion picture) Neptune's daughter (Motion picture) Dangerous when wet (Motion picture)
Notes:
Title from container. Esther Williams ; Bathing beauty: Red Skelton, Basil Rathbone ; Easy to wed: Van Johnson, Lucille Ball ; On an island with you: Peter Lawford, Ricardo Montalban ; Neptune's daughter: Red Skelton, Ricardo Montalban ; Dangerous when wet: Fernando Lamas, Jack Carson. "Easy to wed" is a remake of "Libeled lady" (1936). Originally released as motion pictures 1944-1953. Features: musical number outtakes, classic shorts, cartoons and more.
Contents:
Bathing beauty (1944) / produced by Jack Cummings ; directed by George Sidney ; screenplay by Dorothy Kingsley, Allen Boretz, Frank Waldman -- Easy to wed (1946) / produced by Jack Cummings ; directed by Edward Buzzell ; adaptation, Dorothy Kingsley -- On an island with you (1948) / produced by Joe Pasternak ; directed by Richard Thorpe ; written by Dorothy Kingsley ... [et al.] -- Neptune's daughter (1949) / produced by Jack Cummings ; directed by Edward Buzzell ; written by Dorothy Kingsley -- Dangerous when wet (1953) / produced by George Wells ; directed by Charles Walters ; written by Dorothy Kingsley.
Summary:
"America's mermaid" Esther Williams stars as a teacher at a women's college, a woman accused of being a marriage-breaker, a star shooting a film in the tropics, a woman in love with the captain of the South American polo team, and a woman who swims the English Channel and meets a handsome Frenchman.
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