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Dangerous When Wet. Dangerous When Wet is a 1953 American live-action/animated musical comedy film starring Esther Williams, Fernando Lamas and Jack Carson, directed by Charles Walters and featuring an animated swimming sequence starring Williams with the cat-and-mouse duo Tom and Jerry .
- $1,465,000
- Albert Sendrey, George Stoll
- July 3, 1953
- George Wells
Williams met Argentine heartthrob Fernando Lamas while filming Dangerous When Wet—but the meeting almost never took place. Lamas was only interested in making important pictures and, in his mind anyway, this was not one. Producers really wanted him, so they rewrote the film to his liking.
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Dangerous When Wet: Directed by Charles Walters, Joseph Barbera, William Hanna. With Esther Williams, Fernando Lamas, Jack Carson, Charlotte Greenwood. With her promoter-trainer and family in tow, Katie Higgins swims her way from the Arkansas Ozarks to foggy London and the English Channel.
- (1.1K)
- 1953-07-03
- Comedy, Musical, Romance
- 95
Lamas went to Paramount Pictures where he was top billed in Sangaree (1953). Back at MGM he was Esther Williams' leading man in Dangerous When Wet (1953), a big success. At Warner Bros. Lamas starred in The Diamond Queen (1954). He did Jivaro (1954) at Paramount then returned to MGM for a remake of Rose Marie (1954) supporting Howard Keel and ...
Aug 8, 2016 · Anther film where Williams’ swims with purpose is “Million Dollar Mermaid.” This may also be the only film where Esther Williams plays a farm girl. “Dangerous When Wet” is wonderfully cast. Jack Carson is as humorous as ever and Fernando Lamas is handsome, though I also can’t say he’s my favorite of her leading men.
Dangerous When Wet features an underwater sequence in which Esther Williams appears to swim with cartoon cat and mouse Tom and Jerry, along with a host of other animated characters. The film marked Charlotte Greenwood's first M-G-M screen appearance since Flying High in 1931. Williams and her co-star, Fernando Lamas, were married in Europe in 1967.
Jan 1, 2018 · Lamas’s beautiful baritone voice gets round three songs, including the ‘Ain’t Nature Grand’ duet with Williams. Dangerous When Wet runs 95 minutes, is made by MGM, released by Loew’s Inc, written by Dorothy Kingsley, shot in Technicolor by Harold Rosson, produced by George Wells, and scored by George Stoll and Albert Sendrey, with Art ...
