With This Time For Keeps MGM took care to cover as many possible musical
tastes they could. Supporting Esther Williams in her water ballet sequences are
Lauritz Melchior with some operatic arias, the latin rhythms of Xavier Cugat with
Lina Romay, some comic songs from Jimmy Durante, and a few ballads from
Johnny Johnson. Now if only we could have seen Dame May Whitty as a circus
acrobat. She was in her younger days in this film where she is grandmother and
guardian to Esther Williams and Sharon McManus.
Melchior is Johnson's father and he wants him to follow him in his career at the opera. Johnson has more popular tastes and has a yen for Williams. Who didn't in 1947?
Jimmy Durante is sort of a family retainer for Whitty and he spends the entire film guarding Esther's virtue. He also entertains between Esther's water sequences.
This Time For Keeps is a pleasant diversion and with so many genres of music and entertainment there will be something that pleases you. Has to be.
Melchior is Johnson's father and he wants him to follow him in his career at the opera. Johnson has more popular tastes and has a yen for Williams. Who didn't in 1947?
Jimmy Durante is sort of a family retainer for Whitty and he spends the entire film guarding Esther's virtue. He also entertains between Esther's water sequences.
This Time For Keeps is a pleasant diversion and with so many genres of music and entertainment there will be something that pleases you. Has to be.