
Road to Singapore(1940)
Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore – until they meet a beautiful dancer.


“M-G-M’s Mammoth Technicolor Musical Spectacle!”
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.

Red Skelton
Steve Elliott

Esther Williams
Caroline Brooks

Basil Rathbone
George Adams

Bill Goodwin
Willis Evans

Jean Porter
Jean Allenwood

Nana Bryant
Dean Clinton

Carlos Ramírez
Carlos

Ethel Smith
Ethel Smith

Xavier Cugat
Orchestra Leader

Lina Romay
Lina Romay
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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