Million Dollar Mermaid
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| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: December 4, 1952 |
Starring:
Charles Watts, David Brian, Donna Corcoran, Esther Williams, Howard Freeman, Jesse White, Maria Tallchief, Victor Mature, Walter Pidgeon, Wilton Graff
Summary:
Biopic of Australian swimming champ and entertainer Annette Kellerman. After overcoming polio, Kellerman achieves fame and creates a scandal when her one-piece bathing suit is considered indecent.
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Another audacious MGM aquacade, this 1952 Mervyn LeRoy extravaganza stars Esther Williams as the famed Australian swimmer Annette Kellerman and Victor Mature as the man who discovers first her and then Rin Tin Tin. But the real star is, as always, Busby Berkeley, who contributes more of his Ken Russell-ish wet dreams.
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The picture's only claim on one's attention is in the two sequences staged by Busby Berkeley.
Like the stage show, this Technicolored shindig, which laughingly pretends to be a biography of the famous swimmer, Annette Kellerman, is a luxuriance of razzle-dazzle that includes Hippodrome acts, water ballets, bathing suit shows, diving performances, low comedy, anachronisms and clichés. It also includes an abundance of Miss Williams and Victor Mature, but it does not include the felicities of a reasonably fascinating script.
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