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...dancing. Since Miss Kaye is one of the country's foremost interpretive dancers, however, it's inexplicable why Jerome Robbins has her call out lines like "I need you" in the middle of a rather pretentious ballet scene. Another highly gifted performer, Maria Karnilova is a torrid Latin in Esther, an energetic vulgarity which set two priests next to me muttering about sin on the American stage...
Schenck had slipped into Hollywood five weeks before, set up a round of interviews with MGM's key personnel, from Production Boss Dore Schary to Bathing Beauty Esther Williams. His conclusion: in the face of a box-office slump and skyrocketing overhead, the time had come for a rigid economy campaign...
...demonstration surged after her. "Get that bitch in the brown beret!" a policeman shouted. Without flinching, she walked forward as the cops closed in, swinging their clubs. Led by the "bitch in the brown beret," the demonstrators swept right through the police. This was Chambers' first glimpse of Esther Shemitz, who since 1931 has been his wife...
Skirts Ahoy! (M-G-M), a musical about the U.S. Navy's WAVES, might just as well have been titled Encores Aweigh. The film follows three sailorettes through boot camp, where the activities seem to consist mostly of swimming, singing and dancing in Technicolor. Esther Williams is a spoiled society girl who left her bridegroom languishing at the altar; red-haired Joan Evans is a small-town girl who was stood up at her wedding; blonde Vivian Elaine is a salesgirl with a Brooklyn accent...
...prowl for wine, men and song, the three girls finally snag their sailors. Esther glides gracefully through several swimming numbers, and there are guest appearances by Billy Eckstine, Keenan Wynn, Bobby Van and Debbie Reynolds. But, through soggy direction of a waterlogged script, Skirts Ahoy! comes in at only a low tide of musical entertainment...