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Writers:
Lorraine Fielding (story)
Erwin S. Gelsey (story)
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Release Date:
17 October 1947 (USA) more
Tagline:
A Show to Dream About! more
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A singing soldier (Johnny Johnston) newly returned home finds himself discontent to work in his father's... more | add synopsis
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Esther Williams | ... | Leonora 'Nora' Cambaretti |
 | Jimmy Durante | ... | Ferdi Farro |
| Lauritz Melchior | ... | Richard Herald |
| Johnny Johnston | ... | Dick Johnson (as Johnnie Johnston) |
| Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra | ... | Themselves |
| Dame May Whitty | ... | Grandmother Cambaretti |
| Sharon McManus | ... | Deborah Cambaretti |
| Dick Simmons | ... | Gordon |
| Mary Stuart | ... | Frances Allenbury |
| Ludwig Stössel | ... | Peter |
| Dorothy Porter | ... | Merle |
| Tommy Wonder | ... | Himself |
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| Xavier Cugat | ... | Himself - Orchestra Leader |
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105 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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In the long shots of the scene where Deborah drives the sleigh, it's actually being driven by a local boy of the same age. more
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Featured in That's Entertainment! III (1994) more
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Why Don't They Let Me Sing a Love Song? more
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The movie tells a simple, light-hearted love story between Leonora Cambaretti (Esther Williams), the leading swimmer in a water ballet show, and Ferdi Farro (Jimmy Durante), a singer who just returned from World War II. The plot is rather straight, without serious complications, harmless, sometimes naive, insubstantial. But within its limited scope it is well done and enjoyable.
As this is a musical movie, there is singing, dancing, and -- most remarkable -- the water ballet. The different numbers include some charming scenes. But you cannot compare the dancing with the wonderful performances that are known, for example, from Fred Astaire movies. Also the singing numbers do not reach the quality that is present, for instance, in "My Dream Is Yours" (with Doris Day as a singer), a movie that was produced at about the same time with a similar, though slightly more ambitious entertainment scope.