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Bathing Beauty

Bathing Beauty

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Bathing Beauty

"M-G-M’s Mammoth Technicolor Musical Spectacle!"

1944

1h 42m

5.9(33 votes)

Music

Comedy

Romance

Overview

After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a legal loophole allows him to enroll as one of her students.

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Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

The people behind it

Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Red Skelton

Red Skelton

Steve Elliott

Esther Williams

Esther Williams

Caroline Brooks

Basil Rathbone

Basil Rathbone

George Adams

Bill Goodwin

Bill Goodwin

Willis Evans

Jean Porter

Jean Porter

Jean Allenwood

Nana Bryant

Nana Bryant

Dean Clinton

Carlos Ramírez

Carlos Ramírez

Carlos

Ethel Smith

Ethel Smith

Ethel Smith

Xavier Cugat

Xavier Cugat

Orchestra Leader

Lina Romay

Lina Romay

Lina Romay

Creative team

Directed by: George Sidney
Written by: Allen Boretz
Curtis Kenyon
Produced by: Jack Cummings

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