Bathing Beauty

Bathing Beauty is a 1944 musical starring Red Skelton, Basil Rathbone and Esther Williams and directed by George Sidney.

In Los Angeles, popular songwriter Steve Elliott Red Skelton prepares to marry Caroline Brooks Esther Williams, who has pledged to give up her job as a college swimming instructor once she has wed. Likewise, Steve plans to quit his songwriting career, even though New York producer George Adams Basil Rathbone has already hired him to write new songs for a water ballet show.When George overhears Steve discussing his retirement with Caroline, he vows to prevent the marriage and enlists Maria Dorango Jacqueline Dalya, an aspiring actress posing as a LatinAmerican singer, to help him. Moments after a justice of the peace pronounces the redheaded Steve and Caroline man and wife, Maria rushes in, claiming that Steve is her husband and the father of her three redheaded children, which she has paraded in at that moment. Although Steve pleads his innocence, Caroline storms off in a rage and returns to her teaching post at Victoria College in New Jersey. A determined Steve and his friend, Carlos Ramirez, follow her there, but are denied entrance to the allfemale school. ........

Source: Wikipedia