MILLION DOLLAR MERMAID - DVD-1952-ESTHER WILLIAMS-WARNER ARCHIVE

Details

• Release Year: 1952
• Genre: Drama, Musical
• Plot: James Sullivan works the carny circuit, promoting the likes of a boxing kangaroo or grappling bear. Then the wheeler-dealer meets a million-dollar idea: beautiful swimming champ Annette Kellerman. She’ll churn through a River Thames PR stunt. Cause a bathing-suit scandal among Boston bluebloods. Headline New York’s Hippodrome. And become a Hollywood swimsation as cameras roll and Rin Tin Tin looks on.; ; Glamorous, amphibious Esther Williams portrays the real-life aquatic star in a splashy biopic costarring Victor Mature and loaded with stunning spectacle (including a must-see Busby Berkeley masterwork). Is this lovely Esther’s signature film? Well, she called her 1999 autobiography The Million Dollar Mermaid.
• Cast: Edith Motridge; A. Cameron Grant; Arthur Gould-Porter; Alex Goudavich; Paul Frees; Stanley Fraser; James Fowler; Pat Flaherty; Al Ferguson; Jerry Elliott; Mary Earle; David Dunbar; Vernon Downing; Tom Dillon; Leslie Denison; Frankie Dee; Herbert Deans; Adrienne D'Ambricourt; Lillian Culver; Dorinda Clifton; Edward Clark; Bill Chatham; Mack Chandler; Ann Cavendish; Diane Cassidy; Sue Casey; Danny Casabian; Collin Campbell; Benny Burt; Carol Brewster; Dabbs Greer; Marshall Bradford; Michael Hadlow; Creighton Hale; Frank Mills; Walter Merrill; Joan McKellen; John Maxwell; Lock Martin; Louis Manley; Betty Lynn; Louise Lorimer; Jack Lomas; James Logan; Mitchell Lewis; Queenie Leonard; Percy Lennon; Janet Lavis; Skelton Knaggs; Colin Kenny; Dorothy Kennedy; James L. Kelly; Lilyan Irene; Olaf Hytten; T. Arthur Hughes; Robin Hughes; Harry Hines; Clarence Hennecke; Charles Heard; Chester Hayes; Whitey Haupt; John Hamilton; Charlie Hall; Bobby Hale; Eleanor Moore; George Boyce; Gail Bonney; Stuart Torres; Larri Thomas; Gene Summers; Cy Stevens; Bert Stevens; Murray Steckler; Rosemarie Stack; Dean Smith; Elizabeth Slifer; Charles Sherlock; Russell Saunders; Ray Saunders; Audrey Saunders; Peter Roman; Rod Rogers; Alice Richey; Gordon Richards; Jean Ransome; Maudie Prickett; Dorothy Poynton; Frank Pharr; Genevieve Pasques; Regis Parton; Mary Parker; Frankie Park; Betty Onge; Patrick O'Moore; Vesey O'Davoren; William J. O'Brien; Arthur Tovey; Eugene Borden; Nancy Valentine; Margaret Wells; Wilson Benge; Guy Bellis; Joan Barton; Jimmy Aubrey; Jessie Arnold; Faye Antaky; Willis Bouchey; James Flavin; James Bell; Frank Ferguson; Wilton Graff; Charles Watts; Howard Freeman; Maria Tallchief; Jesse White; Donna Corcoran; David Brian; Walter Pidgeon; Victor Mature; Esther Williams; Fred Zendar; Sally Yarnell; Robin Winans; Eric Wilton; Harry Wilson; Kay Wiley; Patrick Whyte; George Wallace; Clive Morgan; Mervyn LeRoy; Everett Freeman
• Director: Mervyn LeRoy
• Runtime: 1:50
• Company: Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM), Warner Archive Collection
• Media Format: Movie