Esther Williams

The story of 'the incomparable Annette Kellerman,' an Australian swimming champion and water ballet artist who ends up performing in New York's Hippodrome. When Annette is young, she is hampered by cumbersome leg braces. She starts swimming to strengthen her legs and before long, a star is born. She swims and dives her way through the show-biz ranks, struggling to support her musician father and fighting a woman's battle between love and career.

Water skier and swimming star Julie Hallerton falls in love with Ray Lloyd. Ray is Julie's boss and the creator and operator of the show she stars in. Julie manages to stay mostly wet, while he stays mostly disinterested in anything other than the cash receipts.

Katie Higgins is from a health-conscious family of swimmers. She falls in with con man Windy Weebe. The Higgins family decides to swim the English Channel in order to raise money to purchase a prize bull for their Arkansas farm. As she practices for the English Channel swim, Katie gets lost in the fog and is rescued by wealthy wine merchant Andre Lanet, and she falls for him hard. Katie's dream sequence features the animated cartoon characters Tom...

A down-and-out carnival sideshow team is mistaken for a pair of multimillionaires at a swank Texas resort hotel: a perfect plot for Miss Williams to display both her fine sense of comedy and gorgeous, bathing-suit-clad figure. Skelton is hilarious as a pseudo oil tycoon who can't roll a cigarette, walk in spurs or hold his liquor. His performance, a masterpiece of accurate exaggeration, is a wonderful reminder of why he ranks among the screen's greatest...

Lawrence Kingslee is a young navy lieutenant who is brought in as techninical adviser on a song-dance-and-swim film being made by screen star Rosalind Reynolds. Having once done a number with her, and been kissed at the end of a Forces show, Lawrence somehow believes she should be his girl. Her boyfriend, on the other hand, a fellow co-star of Rosalind, is just one of those who disagrees.

The "Morning Star" has a big problem. J.B. Allenbury is a rich and mighty man who will sue the paper for $2 million because of an article which says that his daughter, Connie, is nymphomaniac and only after married men. Reporter Bill Chandler is sent after Connie to prove that the story is true. The only problem Bill has is that he's not married, at least not yet.