Skirts Ahoy!

Skirts Ahoy! (1952)

Glorifying America's Mermaids---the WAVES!

Three young ladies sign up for some kind of training at a naval base. However, their greatest trouble isn't long marches or several weeks in a small boat, but their love life.

Date of release
1952-05-28
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (5)
Runtime
1h 49m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Sidney Lanfield

Casting

Interesting facts

Skirts Ahoy! is a 1952 musical film directed by Sidney Lanfield, and starring Esther Williams, Vivian Blaine and Joan Evans. Shot in Technicolor, the film follows several women who join the WAVES with sequences filmed on location at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station. It also features the film debut of Billy Eckstine.

Production

In March 1951 MGM announced that Isobel Lennart was writing Skirts Ahoy! for Esther Williams, Vic Damone and Vera-Ellen with Joe Pasternak producing. Williams would make the movie following Texas Carnival.

By July the film was going to star Williams, Sally Forest (replacing Vera Ellen) and Vivian Blaine. Blaine was going to take a leave of absence from the Broadway production of Guys and Dolls. Sidney Lanfield signed to direct. Then Forest was out of the film. Keefe Brasselle replaced Vic Damone.

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