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Enjoyable nonsense.
Like and then many of Esther Williams' movies, this one is enjoyable but also complete nonsense. After all, a movie which features a lengthy underwater ballet at the end tin can't be taken very seriously!
The film begins with a South American polo team coming to the States. Its star is José O'Rourke (Ricardo Montalban) and an idiot, Jack (Ruddy Skelton), decides to pretend to be him in order to win Betty'southward heart (Betty Garrett). However, O'Rourke has no thought that Jack is posing as him--nor does Betty'due south sister, Eve (Williams). Instead, Even thinks that O'Rourke is a gigolo--with VERY bad intentions. When she confronts the real O'Rourke, he has no idea what's going on but goes along with it, as he's smitten with Eve. What's next? Come across this silly film for yourself.
If yous cannot let yourself simply sit back and savor all the silliness, then you'll probably take a very difficult time watching. After all, NO SANE PERSON would think Red Skelton looked or sounded Hispanic!! And, some of the music is featherbrained (especially the water ballet). But, if you tin can forget near this, the moving-picture show actually is pretty cute, funny and features the wonderful Oscar-winning vocal "Baby It'due south Cold Outside" for the first time in a movie. Well worth seeing...merely silly and inconsequential.
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Information technology may have been common cold outside, simply watching 'Neptune's Girl' left me feeling warm inside
While not a great film, and it won't exist for all tastes, 'Neptune's Daughter' was to me an entertaining picture that ticked nearly of the right boxes.
'Neptune's Daughter' is at its weakest in the story department, where the silly and thin mistaken-identity story is purely functional at best, where a few parts border on the improbable. Keenan Wynn is given lilliputian to do and his acting and narration felt like they belonged in another (darker) motion-picture show considering they seemed at odds here. Most of the comedy is a lot of skillful-natured fun, but some falls apartment due to beingness overdone somewhat.
Withal, 'Neptune's Girl' is a cute-looking motion picture, with opulent utilise of color, handsome cinematography and elegant costumes and sets. The songs and music are pleasant and energetic, "Infant It's Cold Exterior" being one of the most deserving wins in the All-time Song category though Red Skelton and Betty Garrett'due south number with Xavier Cugat is a please besides.
While not all the comedy works, most of it does and in a way that's genuinely amusing and skillful-natured. The highlight is Skelton and Garrett'southward get-go date in her apartment, a hilarious scene and beautifully played and executed. The staging for the songs is suitably spirited and always pleasing visually, though while the big water ballet is beautifully photographed and performed and fun information technology wasn't quite the "aqua spectacular" that was expected, just defective the continuous free energy and imagination of the all-time Esther Williams water ballets.
Esther Williams is very charming and brightens up the screen whether in or out of the water, while Ricardo Montalban is suave, devilishly handsome and full of energy and charisma. Red Skelton seems to be really enjoying himself and is very funny, a anarchism fifty-fifty in his best bits, and bubbly Betty Garrett enchants the viewer from the moment she's introduced to her last second. Await out also for a rare live-action appearance from the immortal voice thespian Mel Blanc, in case you don't spot him he's the mustachioed guy that sounds exactly like Speedy Gonzales.
In conclusion, a very enjoyable flick that did brand me feel warm inside, though it is not masterpiece status. 7/10 Bethany Cox
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Babe, Information technology'southward Cold Outside
Ii of MGM's biggest box function attractions teamed once again for the film Neptune's Daughter in 1949. Esther Williams and Cherry-red Skelton certainly brought their own corresponding fan bases for this flick. With these two MGM was fighting the good fight against the increasing drawing power of television which would certainly soon claim Skelton.
Esther Williams and scatterbrained mantrap sister Betty Garrett are peddling a new line of swimwear and no one could certainly model her own designs better than Esther Williams both in and out of the h2o. But she's constantly worried almost all the boyfriends that Garrett is finding and and then discarding. Better to keep a close centre on her.
Enter masseuse Red Skelton at the society resort that Williams and Garrett are staying. He's got no luck with women at all. So he seeks advice from S American polo role player Ricardo Montalban who's a devil with the ladies. Red not only seeks advice, but he appropriates Montalban'southward grapheme proper noun of Jose O'Rourke. That causes some real problems when Montalban courts Williams and Williams learns somebody named Jose O'Rouke has been calling on Garrett.
Red has some actually inventive comedy routines one involving tricking Mike Mazurki into thinking he needs a spinal adjustment while he'southward being held against his volition. And the climax is a hilarious polo lucifer where Skelton substitutes for Montalban in a polo lucifer where gamblers are trying for a set. I've seen many different sports lampooned in film, but Neptune's Daughter is the just motion-picture show around that took to satirizing polo.
Frank Loesser who was actually coming into his own as a author of both music and lyrics did the score for Neptune's Daughter. Loesser had a big hit in Charley'southward Aunt running on Broadway and was working on another projection when Neptune'south Daughter came out, a musical based on Damon Runyon characters called Guys And Dolls. Played instrumentally, merely not sung is his previous hit On A Slow Boat To China washed during a style bear witness sequence involving Esther Williams's swim suits.
And Loesser brought home the film'south Oscar for best song with Babe, It's Cold Outside. Montalban and Williams practice it first and after at that place's a comic obbligato from Skelton and Garrett. The big selling record for this song came from Dinah Shore and Buddy Clark in a duet recorded just before Clark was killed in a plane crash. It's a delightful and bouncy number that readily lends itself to satire. I have homemade recording of a radio circulate where Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester exercise it. Plow that i over in your minds.
Topping information technology all off is a water ballet by Esther and they typically got bigger and ameliorate in films as she tried to top herself. Williams was actually fortunate that her career was with MGM because it would but exist a major studio that would have invested the product values in her films.
Considering of that this very mannerly musical comedy holds upward very well for today's audition.
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The younger girl steals the show, non that papa is nowadays.
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A terrific foursome lead the way in this screwball musical most mistaken identity of the most absurd kind. It all concerns a handsome polo player Ricardo Montalban who romances bathing conform manufacturer Esther Williams while light-headed Red Skelton is pursued past her flirtatious sister Betty Garrett who mistakes Skelton, ridiculously so, for the Latin Lothario.
While the entire cast is excellent, information technology is the effervescent Garrett who stands out. Many of MGM's featured players or second leads stole the show from the star, and Garrett is up there with Virginia O'Brien, Ann Miller and Janis Paige as the sassy flirty gal who may non land the hero only takes off with the best fabric. Garrett shines in the Latin themed I Love Those Men, and even in an outtake cut from the film shows her metal. The Oscar Winning Baby, Information technology'due south Cold Outside features all four leads and is winningly staged. Of form, Esther swims, and the finale is lavishly staged.
Montalban, the most likable Hispanic actor of his time, has an easy-going charm that never seems cocky or smug. He sings and dances with ease and looks bully in tight clothing. Skelton deliberately speaks with the worst Spanish accent on flick but is over-shadowed by Mel Blanc who is extremely funny using his Speedy Gonzalez voice. While Keenan Wynn opens and closes the moving picture as a sort of narrator, he is rather wasted. That is really a demotion considering three years earlier he was i of the leads in Piece of cake to Wednesday. Mike Mazurki adds his typical impaired mug functioning as a gangster trying to fix the terminal polo lucifer which has some very funny slapstick sight gags.
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Swimming stunts, polo pony slapstick and mistaken identity...shameless, just it works
MGM comedy-romance with music, filmed in Technicolor and so glossy and bright it's practically edible, is a cute vehicle for swimming star Esther Williams, here playing a swimsuit designer and aquatic ballet swimmer (!) involved in a love/hate relationship with South American polo champion Ricardo Montalban. When she'south trying to feign indifference or displeasure over someone'due south impertinence, Williams can get awfully pinchy and drab; thankfully, supporting players Betty Garrett, Ruby Skelton and, most especially, a relaxed Keenan Wynn give the picture a boost. Montalban manfully keeps up with Esther in the water (merely barely), and works just as hard chasing her on state, though ane may end upward with the feeling that Wynn might be more than sincere in his feelings towards her. Oscar winner for the sprightly song, "Babe, It'due south Cold Outside". ** from ****
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Neptune'south Daughter *** Anoint the Mixups in Movies
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Very comical film where a person's identity leads to all sorts of mayhem, including a near rivalry between ii sisters, and the bad guys after the same wrong human.
Along with the mayhem, came the Oscar winning vocal "Babe, It'due south Cold Outside," sang with such zest past Esther Williams and Ricardo Montalban, at at the same time, Betty Garrett and Reddish Skelton. Information technology was really tunefully washed. This vocal, in winning the Oscar, beat out "My Foolish Heart," from the 1949 tearjerker with same proper name with Susan Hayward and Dana Andrews. That song winning must have been some sort of university upset, by that was not unusual in the best song category.
You can't imagine how long the confusion regarding Montalban's identity will go on. It provides for a funny premise, and Crimson Skelton riding a horse and playing polo is likewise quite hilarious.
Great comic line in the film: "Love has ruined more businesses than the Sherman-Anti Trust Human action! ...To think, the latter was in 1890.
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Mediocre
The motion-picture show features a marvelous cast, each doing his or her specialty. But I especially like the unheralded Betty Garret equally the ditzy sister who manages to steal several scenes. Williams has a few abbreviated swim scenes, but does more acting than paddling. And then besides, making her a swimsuit designer gives us guys an eyeful of the modeling scenes. Bluntly, though, I was disappointed with the big aqua number, which has legions of girls diving into the pool simply trivial more. Information technology's far from any kind of ballet that Williams is so adept at.
Of course, Skelton is fabricated for movies like this where his slapstick comedy can blend into the overall shenanigans. Notwithstanding, a couple of his skits (mounting the horse & piling it on muscle- man Mazurki) went past their top of hilarity. Proficient to see vocalization magician Mel Blanc become a movie break after so many years of funny dialects on radio, TV, and cartoons. All in all, the movie'due south an entertaining and certainly colorful 90-minutes, only unfortunately not Williams' all-time.
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"Baby, It'southward Cold Outside"...so stay indoors and watch this wacky one-act-musical...
Esther Williams had some fairly amusing comedies in the '40s that had her jumping into a puddle every so ofttimes to proceed her "Million Dollar Mermaid" label intact. She not only swims here, but joins in the fun and even lends herself to a funny rendition of "Baby, Information technology's Cold Exterior" with Ricardo Montalban while Red Skelton is doing his own version of the song with Betty Garrett. It'due south a wacky bit of fun about Red existence mistaken for a polo player. He has some wild slapstick scenes--i of which has him joining a bevy of bathing beauties equally he attempts to fit into a h2o ballet (reminiscent of his hijinks in "Bathing Dazzler"). His partner in fun is Betty Garrett who delivers her own special make of comedy with no strain at all.
Ricardo Montalban is an splendid foil for Esther's romantic scenes as the wealthy polo player. The blurb on the video jacket offers a quote from the N.Y. Times: "The nearly entertaining of all the aquatic spectacles in which Esther Williams has starred."
'Nuff said. Enjoy!
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"Any woman that'south over size 20 should have her bathing conform fabricated-to-order."
Swimsuit designer (Esther Williams) has her hands full protecting her human-hungry sister (Betty Garrett). A case of mistaken identity has Esther thinking Betty's in beloved with Ricardo Montalban when it'due south actually Ruby-red Skelton she's fallen for. Esther may spend nearly of the motion picture out of the water but she'due south gorgeous as ever. Skelton and Garrett are lots of fun. Montalban is his flirty and mannerly all-time. At that place's besides a alive-activeness role for cartoon voice legend Mel Blanc, using his Speedy Gonzalez accent.
Fluffy fun with likable performances from everyone and beautiful Technicolor. Oscar-winning "Baby It's Common cold Exterior" vocal is justifiably a classic. Aquatic finale is first-class. We also are treated to a brief tour of a swimsuit factory, which I'1000 not aback to admit I constitute pretty interesting.
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Non good, but with a couple of points of interest
Lame musical one-act starring Esther Williams and Ricardo Montalbahn. Williams plays a bathing adjust designer who wants to protect her sister, Betty Garrett, from Montalbahn, a polo star and Lothario whom Garrett has fallen for. Really, though, Garrett has fallen for Red Skelton, who pretends to be Montalbahn. While Williams thinks she's keeping Montalbahn occupied, the ii, equally you expect, fall in love. Williams is a pretty deadening actress, famously only "something" when she's wet, and she's kept out of the water for 95% of the flick, and they even cut away from what promises to be an epic water ballet in the last moments. The only amusing moments come between Skelton and Garrett, though their antics never ascension higher up slightly amusing. They have good chemical science, though. It's too bad their studio didn't recognize it at the time, because they should have been paired over again. There are ii bits of interest in the film: showtime, it won the Oscar for best vocal, Frank Loesser'due south "Baby, It's Cold Exterior". At present at that place's a trivia question! The vocal doesn't even make sense in the moving-picture show. As far every bit I could tell, the moving-picture show takes place in California. Even if I'thousand incorrect on that, information technology certainly was never cold in the moving-picture show, and why would someone even write a song virtually the cold and snowstorms for an Esther Williams moving-picture show? Weird. It's a smashing vocal, of course, and the best part of the film. Both couples sing it in full back to back, with Garrett and Skelton reversing the roles the 2nd fourth dimension around. The second matter, there'south this one graphic symbol in the picture show named Pancho, who works for the polo team or something. When he began to talk, I was thinking, "Wow, what a stereotypical accent. Sounds just like Speedy Gonzales." Then, "Wow, really a lot like Speedy Gonzales. Await a 2d… that actor looks like…" Yeah, information technology was! Mel Blanc, playing a guy who sounds just like Speedy Gonzales. I didn't know Mel Blanc did anything alive action.
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Horsing around, in a somewhat inferior follow up on "Bathing Beauty"
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Released 5 years after Esther Williams' initial starring function in a 'swimusical', in the very well received "Bathing Beauty", Red Skelton is again prominently featured, and Xavier Cugat's band again has several lively productions. This time, instead of a romance betwixt Esther's and Red'due south character, a more than standard formula plot has Esther being wooed by famous polo player Jose O'Rourke, in the grade of conventional handsome and suave Ricardo Montalban, while Blood-red is pursued past Betty Garrett's typecast man-hungry graphic symbol, who mistakenly believes him to be O'Rourke. You will likely recognize Betty from her role as a man-hungry taxi driver, who tries to bed Frank Sinatra, in "On the Boondocks", released the same year. Ricardo and Esther make a rather banal romantic couple, compared with Red and Betty, in which Red has to pretend he is a South American, knowing just a few words of Spanish, as Cugat, for example, soon figures out. Despite all the glaring clues that Cerise can't exist whom she thinks he is, Betty incongruously continues to believe, until near the end, that Red is O'Rourke. Cugat's ring makes several appearances, the first two being especially noteworthy, and are the clear highlights of this film for me. Included in the first production is a nameless dance couple, who do a fancy dance routine, in very colorful outfits. This production is really split into two parts, with Betty the primary featured performer in the second part, with some input by Red. The second production features a primitive jungle tribe theme, with some wild dancing to "Jungle Rhumba". There is a water show nearly the end, just it'due south zero special.
As well Cugat'due south productions, the several musical numbers were composed past Frank Loesser. Betty's character expresses her fascination with men, in "I Beloved Those Men": part of Cugat'due south kickoff production. During the swimsuit way show, Loesser's composition "On a Slow Gunkhole to Prc" is sometimes heard in the background. Believe it or non, the words were considered past the Hays commission to be too racy to be sung by the principle characters to each other! Ricardo later expresses his fascination with Esther in "My Heart Beats Faster", as they trip the light fantastic effectually a bit. In their respective private residences, First Ricardo and Esther, so Red and Betty, sing the well-remembered counterpoint duet "Infant, It's Cold Outside", in playful scenes. The story is that Loesser actually composed this in '44, but it remained a privately-washed song until MGM bought it for this motion-picture show. It actually won the Oscar for Best Original Song, in a year with thin competition.
In place of Red's joining a ballet class, in "Bathing Dazzler", here he joins an otherwise all female person pond squad doing warm-ups beside the pool, in order to escape a man chasing him. Not as amusing as the ballet caper , simply volition probably please Cherry-red'southward fans, he ending upward with his neck pinned under a croquet wicket!
The section where Red has to really play polo, supposedly as O'Rourke, is totally unbelievable, if amusing. First, it takes a team of people to get him on a horse, which turns out to be a jumper, rather than a polo pony. This is merely the first of several horses, including a bucking bronco, that Cerise rides on and off the field of play. During the match, Red falls off his horse and is dragged by his stirrup for a spell, breaks his mallet, and hits a handbag of polo balls on the sideline, scatting balls all over the field. Withal, he manages to score enough goals to give the South American team a win, and thus preserve the reputation of the existent O'Rourke, who has been kidnapped by a gang, who have bet on the S American team losing.(South America obviously is existence treated as one state!)
Keenan Wynn, aside from interim as the occasional narrator, has a rather minor grapheme role....This was the 2nd and terminal pairing of Esther and Ricardo as the leads.
This motion picture is presently office of a DVD collection of some of Esther'south films.
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Infant Information technology's Cold Outside
As I write this, the big news is that the #MeToo movement has led to the banning of this song past a Cleveland radio station.
I find it sad to meet censorship of things that are long since past and are criticized for things that were products of a unlike era. Information technology is not that I don't believe that such attitudes should be criticized. Let me say it differently. Information technology is definitely advisable to criticize attitudes that disregard or atomic number 82 to abuse of women, or anyone.
My business organisation is that our society focuses on criticism of things long by and non spend plenty effort to prevent them in the future. It is a matter of hindsight being inferior to proactive efforts.
I have been writing reviews of movies and books for a while at present that signal out how plot elements include deportment which corporeality to sexual set on or other abuse or harassment without having those actions receive appropriate consequences. Many of them result in the characters involved condign more than friendly and frequently romantic. Information technology is truthful not only about movies that are decades erstwhile, but even movies and books, especially romantic movies and books that have been produced during the last decade. Information technology includes books written past best selling authors. It includes Television set movies produced and/or shown on networks similar the Hallmark Channel.
Our lodge needs to finish looking to and criticizing the past. Our society needs to terminate producing and buying these products. At present and in the future. We can't have it both ways.
Nosotros can't have a story where a human being forces himself on a woman, sometimes after multiple "no" responses, and take that woman ignore information technology, or worse autumn in beloved with that abuser.
This is not about censorship. It is well-nigh refusing to produce fabric like this in the showtime place. And if information technology is produce, it should not be rewarded financially.
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Neptune'due south Bosom
Esther Williams knows clothes, or should I say bathing suits. This Esther Williams outing shows her getting discovered past Keenan Wynn and going right into the bathing suit business. Keenan Wynn, unlike his function in "Like shooting fish in a barrel to Wed," is so subdued he comes beyond rather uninteresting. Betty Garrett, equally Esther's sis, pretty much takes the spotlight equally she tries to snare Blood-red Skelton. Past the way, Ricardo Montalban is Esther's paramour and "Neptune's Daughter" does include the Oscar-winning song "Baby, It's Common cold Outside." But otherwise this film doesn't take much to recommend information technology. It only makes you lot recollect of other Esther Williams movies that are better with this kind of cloth and talent. The title "Neptune's Daughter" I'yard sure was though of to go far sound glamorous. But information technology does non showcase Esther and company at their best.
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Romantic Tongue-in-Cheek Fun
The all-time reason to sentinel an Esther Williams movie is to run into the lavish product numbers congenital around the swimming champion taking a dip. Unable to compete in the 1940 Olympics because of the outbreak of World War Two, Williams became a moving picture star instead-or perhaps before than expected. This film is one of her most enjoyable, especially because of her duet with Ricardo Montalban on the Oscar-winning "Babe, It'south Cold Outside," the cutest seduction number ever. If you lot remember Montalban from the Star Expedition films, you'll savor seeing him in his youth as a sexy immature playboy with a very pleasant singing voice.---from Musicals on the Silverish Screen, American Library Clan, 2013
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Features the Oscar winning Vocal "Baby It's Cold Exterior", and Esther Williams
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Directed past Edward Buzzell, and written by Dorothy Kingsley (who would share a Best Writing Oscar some years later for her piece of work on Vii Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)), this below average Musical one-act stars Esther Williams (in the title role?), Keenan Wynn, Ruby Skelton, Ricardo Montalban, and Betty Garrett. "Baby, It'south Cold Outside" earned Frank Loesser his just Oscar, on his fourth try out of five nominations, for All-time Song. The scene in which it's sung, by Williams with Montalban and Garrett with Skelton (the two couples), is ane of the film's all-time. Otherwise, it's pretty chauvinistic fluff.
Williams plays a champion swimmer whom Wynn's character finally convinces to partner with him to sell swimsuits. They are very successful. Garrett plays Williams'due south sister, who can't wait to find a fella, that ends upward meeting goofy masseur Skelton, who's never fifty-fifty kissed a girl. Enter Montalban, South America's best polo histrion. After losing a radio callout contest, Skelton winds up giving the injured Montalban a massage, who in plow gives Skelton some romance advice. Wynn decides that arranging a evidence for the visiting polo players would be skillful business organisation, and Garrett decides to be the first girl to run across their star, José O'Rourke (Montalban), for her own desires. Garrett mistakes Skelton for O'Rourke and, wanting to impress her and try out his new "moves", Skelton pretends to be José.
Trouble arises when the standoffish businesswoman Williams believes the horse riding playboy O'Rourke is courtship her; she thinks he's pursuing her and her sister at the same fourth dimension! This well oiled case of mistaken identity theme is about all in that location is to sustain the rest of the film, besides some singing, dancing, and music played by Xavier Cugat (every bit himself) and his band. Naturally, this device just delays the inevitable, each gal will end up with their guy, though Williams puts up the most resistance, with Wynn making his ain play for her in a losing effort to Montalban.
There is a subplot involving a gangster (Ted de Corsia), and his dumb heavy (the e'er reliable Mike Mazurki), who figures capturing O'Rourke before the big polo match will be a good manner to win a big gambling bet. Otherwise, the simply other feature of note is some humorous, not politically correct scenes with Mel Blanc playing a South American named Pancho. Then, of course, at that place are the swimsuits, and their models, as well as the standard synchronized swimming routines which are typical of Ms. Williams'southward films.
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1 of Esther's all-time, and that's not saying much
MGM colleague Fanny Brice on Esther Williams: "Wet she's a star. Dry she own't." She'southward mostly dry in this halfhearted Jack Cummings musical, and while she acts competently and even sounds like she'southward doing her own singing on "Babe, It'south Common cold Outside," hers isn't a dynamic screen personality. It'due south an assembly-line plot with a few adept gags, and the cast -- handsome Ricardo Montalban, appealing Betty Garrett, silly Red Skelton, I'll-play-anything-to-keep-my-contract Keenan Wynn -- is game. Simply in that location'southward barely enough Frank Loesser to go along information technology feeling like a musical, and the plotting is so coincidental that Wynn, as the guy who doesn't get the girl, has to turn unaccountably into a proficient sport in the last reel just to make the happy ending experience happier. The colour'south pretty, and director Edward Buzzell (whose other big MGM musical, "Best Pes Forwards," is far superior) keeps things moving. And Skelton, and then annoying in then much studio product, is marginally less and then here. But the sexism of the day (Williams, a career gal, is yet man-controlled) is irritating, and fifty-fifty the underwater ballet feels perfunctory. One compensation: a superbly dirty, how-did-information technology-become-past-the-censors verbal exchange betwixt Skelton and Garrett ("and now you lot will please plough over"), early on.
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Baby, it's cold outside
A swimsuit designer falls in love with a Due south American polo actor, while her scatterbrained sister falls in love with a masseuse pretending to exist the polo role player, leading to many complications.
Neptune's Girl, while a lesser Williams musical, is nonetheless a heck of a lot of fun. The script is quite funny, with Red Skelton getting some priceless comic bits. There'due south only ane spectacular Williams swimming extravaganza, simply information technology'due south quite good. Ricardo Montalban looks suitably handsome, Esther is mannerly every bit always (and looking cute to boot) and Keenan Wynn is good in a thankless role. Mel Blanc is hilarious as Pancho, who sounds exactly similar Speedy Gonzales.
The musical highlight is the famous Oscar-winning "Baby, It'south Cold Outside", wonderfully performed past the four leads. Don't miss this one.
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Baby It's Common cold Outside!
This is an overlooked old one-act musical that features not one but two performances (I remember the first public ones ever) of the archetype Christmas song "Baby It's Cold Outside". The story is pretty unproblematic but it'southward fun and the feel good kind of story you lot would probably expect of a film like this. Red Skelton puts on a weird emphasis for his foreign guy character but he's always likable and fun, the actresses are dandy with stellar voices, and Ricardo Montalban is surprisingly good as a comedy histrion and vocalist, I had no thought he did that kind of stuff in his younger days. Lots of fun and worth seeing for fans of musical comedies.
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Very swell underrated belatedly 40s golden ager
Not many people today seem to know much nigh Esther Williams' fabled films of the mid and late 1940s and early on 1950s. The later 1950s is such a well known era with the birth of rock'due north'roll and Elvis, merely the immediate mail service WW2 years 1945-1954 are in general bit less known to the under 60 twelvemonth sometime age group today (a sixty year sometime this year would've simply been built-in in 1957, and many people can only relate then much to the time periods before they were even born). Some of the best Golden Age films (there are many wonderful films in the 1928- 1945 period too) are from 1945-1954 such as "Singing in the rain", "Easter parade", "A streetcar named Want", and many others. And of form Esther Williams' films, all of them were between 1944 and 1955.
"Neptune's daughter" was great. Esther here is owner Kenan Wynn's banana of a large habiliment and swimsuit company. Reddish Skelton has a funny office every bit a masseur of the South American polo team, which includes star thespian Ricardo Montanan. I like the early on scene with Carmine almost winning height prize in a radio evidence competition but barely missing out due to i little reason, that scene was funny due to how information technology was played out. This film has the smashing "Baby information technology's cold outside", commencement poetry Esther and Riccardo, 2d Betty and Red.
Red lies almost existence Latino to attract Esther'south sister Betty. That idea was played out similar a joke, since Red has scarlet (no pun intended) hair, off-white skin, and is not too talented at interim Hispanic. Betty was as well not as well bright for completely falling for it. There were a few sexual tones in this film; when Ricardo compares a adult female to a horse and says "but one cannot make beloved to a horse, unless one is another horse". That line in a more than modern movie would've certainly come with some perverted smart*** comebacks, and people wouldn't use the term "make love", they would've used dirtier language. I liked the scene with Betty and Red with Xavier Cougat's orchestra (this is another of numerous Esther films with Xavier) Since Red lied about understanding Spanish, he had to play his style out of a situation during a song where he was thought to know how to play several different instruments. There was also another corking old fashioned exotic samba type song with Xavier, orchestra, and beautiful exotic Latin girls.
I loved the addition of Mel Blanc and his Speedy Gonzales vocalisation, the Bugs bunny reference with Reddish maxim "Albaquerque" and maxim "he went thataway" while pointing two fingers in two different directions, and the whip and cigarette in the oral fissure trick and Mel's cousin "No nose". I also plant funny a scene with several men trying to become Red onto a horse, and information technology near looked similar the horse was looking at the camera and thinking "what a maroon".
I also loved the scenes with Esther and Riccardo such as the dialogue between them in the automobile while driving, Riccardo had some amusing lines at that place such as his comments on the sites Esther was trying to prove him ("you lot've showed me pirates cove with no pirates, inspiration point with no inspiration, and lovers lane with no love"). Also funny was Riccardo'due south comment on the detour sign ("quote, a detour is to accept the bad route cause the adept route'south unavailable, unquote") bringing up Esther'south earlier detour remark (so comically says "you likewise implied I am a blackmailer, and several other unpleasant things".). I similar how Esther tells Ricardo before reluctantly taking him on a engagement "I will show you lot the virtually boring evening of your life". That sort of reminded me of in "Bathing beauty" Esther's reluctantly accepting Crimson into the college showing him his room maxim "I hope you volition exist very uncomfortable here". Kenan's annotate over seeing Riccardo with Esther at the social club was besides funny ("In that location he goes feathering his nest, unfeathering mine"). I also loved the part in Esther'due south wearing apparel factory when Riccardo and Esther were talking in her function. I don't know how many people caught the "Naked gun" reference; Riccardo got a thin piece of drinking glass stuck on the end of his finger in the same way Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) got a sparse tropical biting fish stuck on the end of his finger in Ludwig'due south (played by Riccardo) office in "The naked gun". Esther too had a tropical fish tank in her role that Riccardo noticed in this picture show much like in "Naked gun" the tropical fish tank in Ludwig'south function that Drebin got the fish stuck on his finger out of. Also the aforementioned was how in both films they were trying to pull it off their finger and then quickly hiding that hand behind their back whenever someone looked at them. Skilful referencing. I'm guessing the "Neptune's girl" referencing in "Naked gun" was Riccardo's idea since he was in both films and in both scenes I just mentioned (he did not expect every bit much equally 40 years older in "Naked gun", he aged well). The simply thing is that in that location are probable a adept amount of Naked gun fans who hasn't known what film they were referencing in the scene in Ludwig'south function.
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Fun
Hey, this is a topper. 1 of the all-time of WILLIAMS swim films, mainly because it has the nifty Betty Garrett. Her scenes are wonderful, and she and Red Skelton are wonderful together. The Blood-red and Betty seduction scene where he's trying to act like a Spaniard is sensational and expect until he tastes Garretts appetizer. Sheer genius. The new DVD copy is terrific, precipitous and articulate. Aye, its MGM'due south groomed studio bound picture show, but information technology's what MGM did best. Haven't seen the other WILLIAMS movies in the collection yet, but am looking forward. Likewise looking forward to another volume and hope that her best, yet under-rated SKIRTS AHOY is included. Come across this for pure fun.
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This is why we had to have the women'south movement.
In 1949 information technology probably made perfect sense that a smart and athletically gifted driven adult female would take to choose betwixt the bathing adjust business organisation SHE Built and marriage to a man she only met. At present, it seems absolutely ridiculous. In fact, Williams' supposedly 'bird-brained' sister (Betty Garrett) actually seems like the more open minded worldly ane watching it today. So if you can avoid those details getting on your nerves, this is worth watching, not a must-see, merely worth watching.
It should also be pointed out that this moving picture would be nothing without Betty Garrett and Red Skelton. If Garrett were in the atomic number 82 function, this would probably escalate from a fair movie to an first-class i. (And that goes for all the films she was ever in!) Merely alas, our leads are Williams and Montalban, both drop dead gorgeous, only non much else. Her swim number doesn't come until the end, and it's hardly the grandest of her career. And RM's bod is hot, as usual, fifty-fifty past today's personal-trainerized standards. However, you lot'll spend most of your fourth dimension wanting Betty and Red to come back on, and then it'south fun once again.
P.S. Just so you know, despite "Baby, Information technology's Common cold Outside", this does Non have a vacation theme.
P.P.South. If you desire to picket a dramatic picture afterwards as a contrast, rent "A Place in the Sun", since information technology also involves a bathing suit company (and that's where the similarity ends).
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If you like Esther Williams movies you will probably similar this
She looked beautiful and youthful with her hair down, which happened infrequently in her movies, in an era when women wanted to await mature and sophisticated non young.
My feeling about Baby, It's Common cold Outside is information technology was the comedic use of obviously phony arguments to underline the flirtatious ploy. They as well didn't have family or neighbors to care if they stayed. (This certainly wasn't the commencement or last time a song was shoehorned into a movie, such equally Easter Parade existence sung in a rural setting in Holiday Inn when information technology is virtually NYC, or Raindrops Go along Falling on My Caput in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but this is undeniably one of the odder examples of that.) Information technology reminded me,though, that my favorite Esther Williams scenes were set in winter, on Mackinac Island in This Time for Keeps.
I enjoyed Red Skelton (who would have done well to learn Spanish!) and Betty Garrett. My eyes glazed over from disinterest when they weren't on. I loved some of Esther'south clothes, though, especially the swimsuit and wrap in the education scene with Skelton. (Where we saw ane of the strangest ways to knock a swain out.) It seemed to me the Keenan Wynn graphic symbol and the Skelton and Garrett characters didn't belong in the same movie. Wynn seemed like he would have fit a drama rather than a calorie-free one-act, such as Skelton and Garrett showing how NOT to mount a horse. (The stunt piece of work in this movie deserves praise.) Wynn's character, narration, and background music struck me as being more advisable for something night, maybe a crime of passion. Williams and Montalban's characters were somewhere down the middle. The poor fellow really did "get the business concern" as was cruelly pointed out.
Swimming scenes always make me wonder how many times everyone had to dry off and reshoot.
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Very nixe romantic archetype
Betty is desperate for a husband - she and her sister become to Brazil (for different reasons *wink* *wink*) anyways, she falls for a polo player named Jose.... or and so we retrieve....
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Brilliant and funny
I am astonished about the low rating of this motion-picture show! There are of course many musicals which are boring and this one - I admit - does non feature very much. No bang-up songs (despite "Babe it'south cold outside - Oscar!), no peachy dancing and admittedly no corking acting. Just there is something to brand the motion-picture show special: The comedic timing is perfectly, the gags drib fluently. The supporting roles are fantastic: Cherry-red Skelton at his best and the admittedly wonderful Betty Garrett to team him (they should accept made more movies!). Xavier Cugat and his orchestra play enthusiastic samba rhythms, the decoration of the flick is bright and joyful! In that location is no single deadening moment, the whole flick is like a short trip to the Caribbean bounding main with a fancy cocktail in your manus!
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so and so fluff piece
dm032 9 September 2000
slow bit of nonsense as tough-minded businesswoman Esther Williams falls bit by bit for South American polo playboy Ricardo Montalban. Their courtship is paralleled past the romance between dorky masseur Skelton and William's human being-hungry sis, Garrett. Best scene is the double version of "Infant it'due south Cold Exterior" with Williams and Skelton every bit the coy maidens.
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