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Bathing Beauty

Bathing Beauty

M-G-M’s Mammoth Technicolor Musical Spectacle!

19445.81h 42m

Overview

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.

Directed by George Sidney
Written by Dorothy Kingsley, Allen Boretz, Curtis Kenyon
Produced by Jack Cummings
Box OfficeBudget: $2.4MRevenue: $6.9M

Top Cast

Red Skelton

Red Skelton

Steve Elliott

Esther Williams

Esther Williams

Caroline Brooks

Basil Rathbone

Basil Rathbone

George Adams

Bill Goodwin

Bill Goodwin

Willis Evans

Jean Porter

Jean Porter

Jean Allenwood

Nana Bryant

Nana Bryant

Dean Clinton

Carlos Ramírez

Carlos Ramírez

Carlos

Ethel Smith

Ethel Smith

Ethel Smith

Xavier Cugat

Xavier Cugat

Orchestra Leader

Lina Romay

Lina Romay

Lina Romay

Themes & Keywords

curfewsuspicionmusicalromcomgirls' boarding schoolbigamyswimming poolswimmerlos angeles, californiaunderwaternewlywedgreat daneframe upserenademarital separationhomeworkman in dragcollege lifepiningcollege admissionmusic classcollege deaneurythmicsdoor-slamming farce

About Bathing Beauty

Bathing Beauty is a music, comedy, romance film released in 1944 exploring themes of curfew, suspicion, musical, romcom, girls' boarding school, bigamy. Directed by George Sidney, it stars Red Skelton, Esther Williams, Basil Rathbone. 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.

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