Fun Esther Williams movie which has an enjoyable family feel - she's part of a super athletic family who decide to swum the English Channel. Fernando Lamas is the lecherous Frenchman she meets when he's yachting in the channel - he goes the grope but it's tempered because they married in real life and Lamas looks like he can swim.
William Demarest is dad, Jack Carson is Williams' manager and Charles Walters directs with a nice light touch. There's not much conflict except swimming the Channel - I like that Williams did this and Lamas supported her (the writer was a woman, Dorothy Kingsley).
Williams has a friend who is played by Denise Darcel another non-discovery of Dore Schary's. It feels as though it was written for Debbie Reynolds - and it was! There's not too much Jack Carson (a little of him goes a long way for me). The mood is bright and cheery. Tom and Jerry do a number with Esther.
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