Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949) more movies like this

directed by Busby Berkeley
featuring Frank Sinatra, Esther Williams, Gene Kelly, Betty Garrett, Edward Arnold

So baseball pictures never make money, eh? Try telling that to MGM, which raked in a box office gross of $4 million on their 1949 baseball musical Take Me Out to the Ball Game. Set in 1906, the film concerns the adventures and misadventures of The Wolves, a champion ball club. The team's success is contingent upon the double-play combination of "O ...

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Million Dollar Mermaid (1952) more movies like this

directed by Mervyn LeRoy
featuring Esther Williams, Victor Mature, Walter Pidgeon, David Brian, Donna Corcoran

Who else but Esther Williams could star in a romantic drama (with musical numbers) bearing a title like this? In Million Dollar Mermaid, Williams plays Annette Kellerman, a real-life Australian swimming star who took up the sport as a child to strengthen her legs, which were severely weakened by a birth defect. The treatment proves effective, and ...

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Jupiter's Darling (1955) more movies like this

directed by George Sidney
featuring Esther Williams, Howard Keel, Marge Champion, Gower Champion, George Sanders

Esther Williams' long association with MGM came to an abrupt end with Jupiter's Darling, which even she will admit was her silliest film. Based on Robert Sherwood's satirical play The Road to Rome, the film cast as Williams as Amytis, fiancee of vacillating Roman statesman Fabius Maximus (George Sanders). When it appears as though the forces of ...

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On an Island with You (1948) more movies like this

directed by Richard Thorpe
featuring Esther Williams, Peter Lawford, Ricardo Montalban, Jimmy Durante, Cyd Charisse

The title of this MGM musical alone should tip you to the fact that Esther Williams is the star. In this one, she plays a movie star (what an innovation!), Rosalind Reynolds, who is on location in Hawaii to shoot a picture. Peter Lawford plays the film's naval technical advisor, Lt. Lawrence Y. Kingslee, who naturally falls deeply in love with ...

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Easy to Love (1953) more movies like this

directed by Charles Walters
featuring Esther Williams, Van Johnson, Tony Martin, John Bromfield, Edna Skinner

The Cole Porter title tune is but one of the musical highlights in the (literally) splashy Esther Williams musical Easy to Love. Reshuffling plot devices utilized in previous Williams vehicles, the film casts Williams as Julie Hallerton, the star of Ray Lloyd's (Van Johnson) aquacade. She loves Lloyd, but he hardly knows she exists. Only when she ...

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This Time for Keeps (1947) more movies like this

directed by Richard Thorpe
featuring Esther Williams, Johnny Johnston, Lauritz Melchior, Jimmy Durante, Xavier Cugat

In this aqueous musical comedy, an opera singer brings his son to Michigan's Mackinac Island where the son falls in love with the star of the "aquacaper." It is difficult to woo her as she is constantly surrounded by her piano-playing bodyguard and her ever-present grandmother. It's musical and comedic chaos as the son attempts to overcome these ...

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Texas Carnival (1951) more movies like this

directed by Charles Walters
featuring Esther Williams, Richard "Red" Skelton, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Paula Raymond

MGM's new musical screen team of Esther Williams and Howard Keel were given plenty to do in the pleasant if unambitious songfest Texas Carnival. Williams plays Debbie Telford, one-half of a carnival performing team. The other half is Corny Quinnell (Red Skelton), who breaks up the act when he is mistaken for Texas millionaire Dan Sabinas (Keenan ...

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Dangerous When Wet (1953) more movies like this

directed by Charles Walters
featuring Esther Williams, Fernando Lamas, Jack Carson, Charlotte Greenwood, Denise Darcel

Esther Williams stars in this button-cute musical about a health-conscious family of swimmers who fall in with con man Windy Weebe (Jack Carson). The Higgins family decides to swim the English Channel in order to raise money to purchase a prize bull for their Arkansas farm. As she practices for the English Channel swim, Katie Higgins (Esther ...

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Pagan Love Song (1950) more movies like this

directed by Robert Alton
featuring Esther Williams, Howard Keel, Minna Gombell, Charles Mauu, Rita Moreno

Pagan Love Song derives its title from a 1929 tune written by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown. The plot is cut from the same cloth as MGM's previous Esther Williams musicals. Sporting a black wig and deep tan, Williams plays American lass Mimi Bennett, who while on vacation in the South Seas is mistaken for a native girl by visiting ...

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Neptune's Daughter (1949) more movies like this

directed by Edward N. Buzzell
featuring Esther Williams, Richard "Red" Skelton, Ricardo Montalban, Betty Garrett, Keenan Wynn

Esther Williams and Red Skelton share equal screen time for once in the MGM Technicolor musical Neptune's Daughter. The title character is, of course, Williams, here cast as Eve Barrett, a bathing-suit manufacturer (and sometimes model). Skelton plays Jack Spratt, the masseur at a fancy polo club, who falls for Eve's sister (Betty Garrett). To ...

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Thrill of a Romance (1945) more movies like this

directed by Richard Thorpe
featuring Van Johnson, Esther Williams, Frances Gifford, Henry Travers, Spring Byington

This aquatic musical is set at a mountain resort in the beautiful Sierra Nevadas where a heroic Army Air Corpsman has come for a vacation. There he falls in love with the lovely swimming instructor, who is unfortunately newly married to a rather stodgy businessman. The mayhem begins when her new husband is called to Washington on urgent business. ...

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