Bathing Beauty
- Year: 1944
- Country of origin: USA
- Genre: Comedy, Musical
- Director: George Sidney
- Length: 101 min
- IMDb rating:
M.G.M’s mammoth technicolor musical spectacle!
Synopsis
Bathing Beauty (1944) centers on a successful composer whose marriage collapses after his wife discovers he manipulated their relationship to avoid military service. As he infiltrates her women’s college under false pretenses and increasingly chaotic romantic misunderstandings spread through the campus while musical performances and aquatic spectacles disrupt the school’s routines, his efforts at reconciliation spiral into comic disorder. This musical comedy examines romance and deception within a highly stylized wartime entertainment setting, as personal complications intensify, with romantic pursuit, elaborate musical spectacle, and comedic misunderstanding.
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Notes
- Warner’s DVD is included in the “TCM Spotlight: Esther Williams, Volume 1” box set with Easy to Wed (1946), On an Island with You (1948), Neptune’s Daughter (1949) and Dangerous When Wet (1953). It is also available in the “TCM Greatest Classic Legends Film Collection: Esther Williams, Volume 1” box set with On an Island with You (1948), Neptune’s Daughter (1949) and Dangerous When Wet (1953).
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