Director George Sidney’s “Bathing Beauty” (1944) is a delirious movie musical. It is, in many respects, an exemplar of the genre, and while It’s not the best, it ain’t bad. Sidney’s picture is ...
The water, Esther Williams once quipped, was her favorite costar. With her beauty, sunny personality and background as a champion swimmer, Williams shot to stardom in the 1940s in the “aqua musical,” ...