Esther_Williams- Bathing Beauty

I highly recommend Esther's autobiography, very juicy, she really tells all. She describes this sequence at great length. She had to be covered from head to toe with vaseline every day so the makeup would stay on, and her wigs were incredibly painful. Plus it takes great strength in the legs to lift your head and arms out of the water like that.

I once saw a mini Esther Williams documentary in some museum in Hollywood. I cried while watching the choreography: just perfect.

A Techicolor masterpiece from 1945, and my favourite film with Esther Williams, although she made many good ones. Thank you very much for sharing with us this marvellous sequence.

Life should be a musical.

merveilleux

ahaha love the jets of fire at the end.

She was such an amazing athlete as well as a showperson. I can't imagine the hours and hours of practice it must've taken to prepare for that performance.

And leave it to Busby Berkley to come up with such a stage setting. I wonder what sort of budget it would take today to top those old MGM musicals.

@orcgoddessspike Actually, Busby Berkeley didn't work on this film, although he did some of Esther's latest films. But clearly they were stealing ideas from him....

Body perfect

Marvelous :)

Xavier Cugat & his orchestra on the music tip

Timeless :)