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The movie was initially to be titled "The Co-Ed" with Red Skelton having top billing. However, once MGM execs watched the first cut of the film, they realized that Esther Williams' role should be showcased more, and changed the title to "Bathing Beauty", giving her top billing and featuring her bathing-suit clad figure on the posters.
Bathing Beauty is a 1944 American musical romantic comedy film directed by George Sidney, and starring Red Skelton and Esther Williams. [2] Although this was not Williams' screen debut, it was her first Technicolor musical. The film's working title was Mr. Co-Ed, with Skelton having top billing.
Bathing Beauty: Directed by George Sidney. With Red Skelton, Esther Williams, Basil Rathbone, Bill Goodwin. A contrived misunderstanding leads to the breakup of a songwriter and his fiancée.
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- Comedy, Musical
- George Sidney
- 1944-07
Bathing Beauty (1944) - In one sequence Red Skelton's character is trapped inside a house by a large dog. He escapes by removing the hinge pins from the door, picking up the door and, as the dog comes inside he holds the door between them and goes out. Red said that they had written themselves into a corner and could not come up with a way for him to get out. They were going to scrap the scene ...
Bathing Beauty (1944) -- (Movie Clip) Nastursiums To You! Comedy with Red Skelton and Esther Williams, him a songwriter, her a swimming teacher, who walked out at their wedding after he was wrongly accused of being already married, now trying to win her back by enrolling at her school, Bill Goodwin the foil, in MGM’s Bathing Beauty, 1944.
- George Sidney
- Red Skelton
Aug 14, 2020 · Esther looks a little dazed while sporting "the crowbar-do" in Bathing Beauty (1944). Once her tresses were sufficiently gooped, Esther’s hair was braided, with artificial braids woven in. According to Esther, the giant hairpins used to keep these braids in place: “…looked like crowbars—and felt like them, too.
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