Million Dollar Mermaid

Million Dollar Mermaid also known as The One Piece Bathing Suit in the UK is a 1952 MetroGoldwynMayer biographical musical film of the life of Australian swimming star Annette Kellerman. It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Arthur Hornblow Jr. from a screenplay by Everett Freeman. The music score was by Adolph Deutsch, the cinematography by George J. Folsey and the choreography by Busby Berkeley.

In the late 19th Century, a poliostricken Australian girl, Annette Kellerman Esther Williams, swims as a means to improve her health. Her father, Frederick Walter Pidgeon, who owns a music conservatory, accepts a teaching position in England.Aboard ship, Annette encounters the American promoter James Sullivan Victor Mature and his associate Doc Cronnol Jesse White, who are taking a boxing kangaroo called Sydney with them to London. ........

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