Regie:
Mervyn LeRoyScenario:
Everett FreemanCamera:
George J. FolseyMuziek:
Adolph DeutschActeurs:
Esther Williams, Victor Mature, Walter Pidgeon, David Brian, Howard Freeman, James Flavin, Willis Bouchey, Dabbs Greer, Mitchell Lewis, Jesse White (meer)Samenvattingen(1)
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. (officiële tekst van distribiteur)
(meer)Acteurs
Esther Williams
USA
Beste films:
Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)
A Guy Named Joe (1943)
Ziegfeld Follies (1945)
Victor Mature
USA
Beste films:
Samson and Delilah (1949)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
I Wake Up Screaming (1941)
Walter Pidgeon
Canada
Beste films:
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Madame Curie (1943)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
David Brian
USA
Beste films:
The Name of the Game (1968) (serie)
'G' Men (1935)
Springfield Rifle (1952)
Howard Freeman
USA
Beste films:
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Madame Curie (1943)
The Killers (1946)
James Flavin
USA
Beste films:
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
In Cold Blood (1967)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Willis Bouchey
USA
Beste films:
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Schiet niet op de sheriff (1968)
The Big Heat (1953)
Dabbs Greer
USA
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The Green Mile (1999)
Storm Warning (1951)
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
Mitchell Lewis
USA
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The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
The Stratton Story (1949)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
Jesse White
USA
Beste films:
Harvey (1950)
Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Frank Ferguson
USA
Beste films:
The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Pat Flaherty
USA
Beste films:
The Great Dictator (1940)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Bert Stevens
USA
Beste films:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Frank Mills
USA
Beste films:
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952)
Limelight (1952)
Fury (1936)
Paul Frees
USA
Beste films:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
In Cold Blood (1967)
Grand Prix (1966)
Nancy Valentine
USA
Beste films:
Father of the Bride (1950)
Father's Little Dividend (1951)
De zwarte burcht (1952)
Colin Kenny
Ierland
Beste films:
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
My Fair Lady (1964)
Arthur Tovey
USA
Beste films:
The Sting (1973)
Back to the Future (1985)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
George Wallace
USA
Beste films:
Wolkenkrabber in Vlammen (1974)
Minority Report (2002)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Gail Bonney
USA
Beste films:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
The Name of the Game (1968) (serie)
Inherit the Wind (1960)