出水芙蓉 (1944)
Bathing Beauty
水上大盛展
流行音乐作曲家史蒂夫（Red Skelton）在加州与美丽多情的大学游泳课老师卡罗琳（Esther Williams）一见倾心，两人谈婚论嫁之际，遭到唱片公司高层的反对，他们怕影响到史蒂夫为“水上盛典”作曲，但史蒂夫无视阻挠。 史蒂夫的经纪人乔治雇用女演员玛丽娅假冒史蒂夫的妻子，后者带着三个假冒的孩子来到婚礼上大闹，卡罗琳一气之下出走，史蒂夫得知卡罗琳任教的学院虽是女子学院，但章程规定也招男生，于是报名入学，笑话自此层出不穷。
演员阵容
- Red Skelton — Steve Elliott
- Esther Williams — Caroline Brooks
- Basil Rathbone — George Adams
- Bill Goodwin — Willis Evans
- Jean Porter — Jean Allenwood
- Nana Bryant — Dean Clinton
- Carlos Ramírez — Carlos
- Ethel Smith — Ethel Smith
- Xavier Cugat — Orchestra Leader
- Lina Romay — Lina Romay
- Harry James — Harry James
- Helen Forrest — Helen Forrest
趣闻
Bathing Beauty is a 1944 American musical romantic comedy film directed by George Sidney and starring Red Skelton and Esther Williams.
Production
Dorothy Kingsley, who wrote the script, had done some writing on Girl Crazy. Jack Cummings brought her on to Bathing Beauty.
There'd been a million writers on it [before me] but the script was just bleh, lying there. They couldn't shoot it, even though they had commitments with Esther Williams and Red Skelton, with Harry James the trumpet player, and with Xavier Cugat the cha-cha-cha man.
Skelton was advised to shave his red chest hair for the swimming sequences. He protested and after conferencing with his wife, only cut the hair once the studio paid him $200 in cash and saved all of the curls in a plastic bag. Another scene with Skelton proved difficult to complete with his character trapped in a house with a large aggressive dog outside.
The pool sequences were shot on location at the Lakeside Country Club in the San Fernando Valley. The film was shot during January and the grass on the rolling country club lawns was dead and brown. Director George Sidney brought in a paint crew and had the dead grass spray-painted green, which lasted the entire week of shooting. However, that ruined the grass, and the studio had to send in crews in the spring to reseed the lawn.
Williams' date to the first preview of the film in Pomona was her soon-to-be husband, Sergeant Ben Gage.
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