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Easy To Love (1953) -- (Movie Clip) -- Water-Ski Finalè These days it might prompt snark about “jumping the shark” but not in 1953, with Busby Berkeley’s giant undertaking on Lake Eloise at Cypress Gardens, Fla., Esther Williams playing aquatic star Julie, did lots of water-skiing but not the tricks, in Easy To Love, from MGM and producer Joe Pasternak.
Easy to Love: Directed by Charles Walters. With Esther Williams, Van Johnson, Tony Martin, John Bromfield. An aquatic performer tries to attract the man she loves.
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- Comedy, Musical, Romance
- Charles Walters
- 1953-12-25
English. Budget. $1,831,000 [1] Box office. $3,789,000 [1] Easy to Love is a 1953 Technicolor musical film directed by Charles Walters with choreography by Busby Berkeley. It stars Esther Williams, Van Johnson and Tony Martin. It was Williams' final aquatic film set in the United States.
Nov 25, 2013 · Dangerous When Wet was filmed in August through October of 1952, and released in June of 1953. Easy to Love was filmed in February through April 1953, and released on Christmas Day. Easy to Love was “Excitingly Filmed,” according to the poster, in Cypress Gardens in Florida, where Esther Williams would tape a very popular TV special in 1960.
Easy To Love (1953) - (Movie Clip) - You Said She Swims And Types. New York night club attraction Barry (Tony Martin) has gotten an audition for visiting underpaid-overworked Florida aquatic star Julie (Esther Williams) with producer Levenson (Benny Rubin), with a small scale Busby Berkeley swimming bit, in MGM’s Easy To Love, 1953.
Jul 18, 2022 · • The Florida-shaped swimming pool at Cypress Gardens was created for this movie for a Busby Berkeley number. • Carroll Baker’s first feature film. • Initially intended to be a drama with Lana Turner. • Not related to the 1934 film “Easy to Love.” Highlights: • The water ballet with the flowers and the water ballet audition
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.
