The ship had one movie. Thank goodness it was a good one. It was Bathing Beauty starring Esther Williams and Red Skelton.
The movie was shown every night of the trip across the Pacific. I estimate that I saw it 17 times. I could almost recite all the dialogue and knew every scene.
Kerry has ordered it. I am going to watch it one more time.
Esther Williams just recently passed away at the age of 91.
Hello Mr. Chuck!
ReplyDeleteI saw part of this movie for the first time just a couple of day ago on Turner Classic Movies! I didn't get to see the entire thing because I had to get to work but the big musical number that I caught was the "re-working" of the song "Loch Lomond". It was really fun. It just kept getting bigger and bigger! I have seen a few of Esther Williams' movies. It is always fun to see how they are going to manage to work swimming in to the story line. Boy, was she a beautiful lady. I bet that all the troops enjoyed the "eye-candy" and I am sure that Esther was glad to do her part to boost morale!
Love and Hugs!
A.B.