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Running Time
1 hour, 55 minutes
Country USA
Studio MGM
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Other Titles
• Million Dollar Mermaid
• Die Goldene Nixe (1953)
• The One Piece Bathing Suit (1952)
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Genre: Drama, Musical, Biography, Sports
Plot: From the 1940s to the 1950s, swimming, singing, dancing star Esther Williams was MGMs top grosser, and MILLION DOLLAR MERMAID, directed by Mervyn LeRoy (GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933, SWEET ADELINE), is widely considered Williams’s best work. In it, Williams stars in the real-life story of Annette Kellerman, Williams’s predecessor as a professional swimmer who turned into a movie star. Kellerman is an Australian who battles her childhood physical handicap by swimming in the local pond. Kellerman soon becomes Australia’s swimming champion and moves to Europe to compete in the big leagues. Arriving in England, she meets publicist James Sullivan (Victor Mature), who arranges for her to swim 17 miles across the Thames. For the next stunt, Sullivan has Kellerman appear in a one-piece suit in Revere, the beach closest to Boston. She is arrested for indecent exposure, but the scandal achieves the publicity necessary to start Kellerman’s film career. With underwater sequences choreographed by Busby Berkeley, MILLION DOLLAR MERMAID is not to be missed.
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| Written by |
Everett Freeman
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Glass Bottom Boat, You Can't Cheat an Honest Man |
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| Cast |
Walter Pidgeon
Forbidden Planet, How Green Was My Valley, Mrs. Miniver |
 | Esther Williams
Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Ziegfeld Follies, A Guy Named Joe | | David Brian
How the West Was Won, The High and the Mighty, Pocketful of Miracles | | | | |
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| Music By |
Adolph Deutsch
Gone with the Wind, Some Like It Hot, The Maltese Falcon |
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