Million Dollar Mermaid Clip: Esther Williams - Annette Kellermann - MGM
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Swimming star and actress Esther Williams was Hollywood's literal bathing beauty and became known as "America's Swimming Sweetheart" with her role in MILLION DOLLAR MERMAID ('52), the MGM spectacle loosely based on the Australian swimmer Annette Kellerman and choreographed by Busby Berkeley.
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She’s was brilliant I grew up watching these amazing swimmers and Esther was truly one of a kind!
No CGI in those days .They actually DID it !
When Hollywood used to make you dream.
MGM could make a musical out of anything!
@ExileTheKnightsOfMaltaNow
4 ай бұрын
Sounds like the band room before the teacher arrived
Now that is talent in many ways.
Thanks to both Annette Kellerman & Esther Williams, synchronized swimming is still with us today worldwide, even on Summer Olympic Games. Swimming is a wonderful way to cool off every summer & this classic performance scene is magnificent 100%!
What craftmanship of all who were involved making this beautiful movie
After second world war tired and exhausted people needed these amazig colorful enterteining films.
Great performance and choreography!!!
Best scene in this whole movie!!!!!
I JUST ❤ LOVE TURNER CLASSIC 🎥 MOVIES 🎥 🍿😌
Such skill and stamina! Truly poetry in motion, all of them! Now THAT's a movie.
Forget the cgi and action movies of today, this is just incredible!
"Keep smiling dearie - you're about to be dropped 150ft into freezing cold water." "Oh - the focus was out. Going again everyone!"
Du lieber Himmel, habe ich diese Revues mit Esther Williams gern angeschaut.
Beautiful!!!!!👏👏👏👏 I think how were difficult to record this!
Che belli i suoi film, tutti sull'acqua, molto originali. Li ricordo molto volentieri. ❤❤❤❤ lei molto sportiva...che scene.....
Love love love this scene! The old school synchro inspires our show routines
@lorettasandrin160
8 ай бұрын
❤
Extravaganza, over the top!
That was the coolest thing I've ever seen
Very beautiful
ESTHER WILLIAMS 💐WAS THE B❤ST
che bei film e poi delle scenografie favolose bravissima
2022: A swim makes you mentally alert & healthy!
@fnin
Жыл бұрын
thank you blanca
Impressive
Surreal.
I can’t believe this used to be a genre of film
@rutabagasteu
10 ай бұрын
Musicals were big in the 1930s through 1940s according to my grandparents.
Nothing beats Busby Berkeley choreography.
While "Million Dollar Mermaid" had the most spectacular swimming sequences ever filmed in Hollywood or elsewhere, Esther Williams best film in my estimation was "Easy to Love". Not only were her swimming sequences excellent, the film also had the excellent crooning of Tony Martin with 3 hit-paraders, plus there was the very likable Van Johnson as Esther's romance. Eleanor Powell did her famous tap dance; Lena Horne sang a lovely tune and there was another actress Connie Haines [in the film] that belted out two foot-tapping numbers: Choo, Choo to Idaho and Of all things. As with all Esther movies, I have seen Easy to Love more than a dozen times and still counting.
@oldhollywoodfan8009
2 ай бұрын
I love that movie.😃 My favorite Esther Williams movies is On An Island With You. It was the first film of hers that I ever saw. Loved her long hair. Loved the swimming and dancing sequences. And the story was cute.😊
I use to love swimming so much in my younger days! What a fantastic video, wow!
OMG. Was just telling my husband about her. But apparently I didn't know either! The dudes! The HIGH dives!! Epic!! 🎉♥️🎉
This is where Mel Brooks got a lot of his inspiration for the Spanish Inquisition in history of the world part 1 😂😂
Podría poner la película completa?
Um crime essa cena não estar no KZread antes. Já foi parodia da pelos muppets e no filme Hail, Caesar
Those blokes wearing the big red nappies.
🎉❤😮😊
how did she breath 😮?
🥰😍🤩
In early SIXTIES my grandparents took me to Silver Springs! Wonder if a Mermaid was present?
Did Busby Berkeley choreograph that scene?
@ValleyoftheRogue
6 ай бұрын
Yes, he did.
О спорт ❤ ты мой мир😊
La madre del actor de falcon crest
@oldhollywoodfan8009
2 ай бұрын
Esther Williams was his stepmother. Lorenzo’s mother is Arlene Dahl.😊
す、すばらしいっ(≧∇≦)
_"Hey, guys, I've a great idea for a movie!"_
Wasnt Esther going down the slide at the 1:20 mark youcan see her in the water she comes up farther away from where the stand in landed, she also stated in her autobiography that wasnt her diving off the trapeeze, but still nobody did better than she did!!!!!
I'd be a nervous wreck....afraid to fall out of sync 😮
That was a lot of water
To all of this I have just one question ... How???
@ValleyoftheRogue
6 ай бұрын
Busby Berkeley was the absolute master of mass choreography. He knew what to do and did it with precision.
Who was Williams' stand-in?
Way, that is amasing woman actor
Love it ,Looks like fun to practise.Cant wait to see you guys in action
@lulamax7942
Жыл бұрын
They’re all dead..
Yeah! Chicks
I often wonder. Was this the softcore of its time?
@heygirlspodcast
2 жыл бұрын
tbh it probably was lol
Well here's one for ya she asked my dad to go swimming with her he said he couldn't because he didn't have a swimsuit and she offered to buy him one he still said no because he wouldn't take charity, he's the reason why the blimp hanger at moffet field still stands today and that was when he was 17 in the US Army, yes he lied about his age to get in, beach at Normandy and battle of the bulge I have a half sister in France and the list goes on
These movies made a mess out of my fragile eggshell mind hehehe I mean really how are you supposed to follow this?
This looks a.i. Generated
I'd be offended too, Corn Pop.
AI can’t match this
SID SISTERS DEATH KATHERINE AND MY BROTHER'S DAUGHTER LISA FOUR DAYS OLD BETWEEN TO CHILDER THIS YOUR CONNECTION CAM ERA REAL TIME SPACE CONTINUUM LOVE YOUR GOAL FOR THE WORLD
fairy zelda breath of the wild
Prevod na hrvatski
NOT VERY SYNCHRONISED DO BETTER PLS
@ValleyoftheRogue
6 ай бұрын
Let's see you try it. I doubt you could top the great Busby Berkeley.
GO E❤ W❤. YOU DID IT WELL BELOVED
The only thing I don't love about this is the soggy looking, diaper trunks the guys are wearing and the low video resolution, other than that, PERFECTION.