Esther Williams is a beautiful, sweet old fashioned girl from Hollywood's golden age. Her specialties have been those glamorous, spectacular water ballet numbers, but she doesn't have much of one in this film though.(My very favorite Esther swimming water ballets are in "Million dollar mermaid", " This time for keeps", and "Bathing beauty". But I've enjoyed all of them. I also loved Esther's skiing show in "Easy to love")
This film is more of just a romance, but a good one. Esther has just gotton married, and they take their honeymoon to a resort at Yosemite national park. But Esther's husband leaves her on their first day of the trip to do a business deal. I don't care how good a business deal looks, if it would leave me earning even a little under a million dollars, I would never ditch my newly married wife on our honeymoon. When he leaves, Esther is sobbing on her hotel room balcony and is overheard by Van Johnson in the room next door. They start talking, they hit it off and start spending time together. And Esther, (who was an Olympic swimmer in real life) even teaches Van how to swim. There are some good supporting characters here. Professional opera singer Lauritz Melchior who is singing for the hotel, struggles (humorously) to stay on a diet, willing to do almost anything for a steak, potatoes, and a beer, including singing for it which gets him close, but not quite. Melchior sings a very good song with Esther and others in a bar, "Viva la Compangnie" while drinking. Esther looked so sweet next to him there, you can see that she and Melchior are just wanting to drink and have fun, unlike the "stuffed shirt" husband who leaves their vacation to work after just one phone call. I also kinda liked the scene where Melchior, with that other guy (who was a doctor), gives in from the diet and simply enjoys himself endulging himself with food and beer while singing about it. I agree, let loose and enjoy life, eat and drink what you want if it feels good. Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra provide the background music, and a girl, about 9 or 10 plays Lizts Hungarian Rhapsody on the piano almost as good as Franz Liszt. Then she jazzes it up and Dorsey plays the trombone, and she starts singing. What talent she had in both piano and singing. I wonder what became of her after this film. Then later, she has to start the music up of a song Lauritz sings because the rest of the orchestra doesn't know it. There's a lot of feel good chemistry between Esther and Van and you know **SPOILER** they'll end up together. Well I sure hope so because I would feel sorry for Esther if she was dumb enough to go back to that neglectful jerk husband of hers. Anyway, I'm glad Van gets with Esther. That's what he really deserved.
This film is more of just a romance, but a good one. Esther has just gotton married, and they take their honeymoon to a resort at Yosemite national park. But Esther's husband leaves her on their first day of the trip to do a business deal. I don't care how good a business deal looks, if it would leave me earning even a little under a million dollars, I would never ditch my newly married wife on our honeymoon. When he leaves, Esther is sobbing on her hotel room balcony and is overheard by Van Johnson in the room next door. They start talking, they hit it off and start spending time together. And Esther, (who was an Olympic swimmer in real life) even teaches Van how to swim. There are some good supporting characters here. Professional opera singer Lauritz Melchior who is singing for the hotel, struggles (humorously) to stay on a diet, willing to do almost anything for a steak, potatoes, and a beer, including singing for it which gets him close, but not quite. Melchior sings a very good song with Esther and others in a bar, "Viva la Compangnie" while drinking. Esther looked so sweet next to him there, you can see that she and Melchior are just wanting to drink and have fun, unlike the "stuffed shirt" husband who leaves their vacation to work after just one phone call. I also kinda liked the scene where Melchior, with that other guy (who was a doctor), gives in from the diet and simply enjoys himself endulging himself with food and beer while singing about it. I agree, let loose and enjoy life, eat and drink what you want if it feels good. Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra provide the background music, and a girl, about 9 or 10 plays Lizts Hungarian Rhapsody on the piano almost as good as Franz Liszt. Then she jazzes it up and Dorsey plays the trombone, and she starts singing. What talent she had in both piano and singing. I wonder what became of her after this film. Then later, she has to start the music up of a song Lauritz sings because the rest of the orchestra doesn't know it. There's a lot of feel good chemistry between Esther and Van and you know **SPOILER** they'll end up together. Well I sure hope so because I would feel sorry for Esther if she was dumb enough to go back to that neglectful jerk husband of hers. Anyway, I'm glad Van gets with Esther. That's what he really deserved.