• Million Dollar Mermaid (also known as The One Piece Bathing Suit in the UK) is a 1952 American biographical drama film about the life of Australian swimming...
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    biographical role, as Australian swimming star Annette Kellerman in Million Dollar Mermaid, which went on to become her nickname while she was at MGM. Williams...
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    biographical role, as Australian swimming star Annette Kellerman in Million Dollar Mermaid, which went on to become her nickname while at MGM. Williams left...
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    Bowe's part is uncredited, as is her depiction of a swimmer in Million Dollar Mermaid (1952). The same year, in June, she appeared on the cover of Life...
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    box-office failure. Far more popular was a musical he made at MGM, Million Dollar Mermaid with Esther Williams, a biopic of Annette Kellermann, playing Kellermann's...
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  • Williams in Allyson's role. According to her 2000 autobiography The Million Dollar Mermaid, Williams objected to Schary's casting suggestion, resulting in...
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    (1951, choreographer) Two Tickets to Broadway (1951, choreographer) Million Dollar Mermaid (1952, choreographer) Small Town Girl (1953, choreographer) Easy...
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  • had trouble keeping my head above water" wrote Williams in The Million Dollar Mermaid. "Finally, I reached around me, tugged at the zipper, and watched...
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    1952 Don't Bother to Knock Bunny Jones with Marilyn Monroe 1952 Million Dollar Mermaid Annette - 10 years old with Esther Williams 1953 Scandal at Scourie...
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    Barton made five uncredited appearances in various films, including Million Dollar Mermaid (1952). On May 25, 1946, Barton was divorced from James Erwin Thomas...
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    its demolition in the number "Come Up to My Place." The 1952 film Million Dollar Mermaid has scenes set in the Hippodrome with Esther Williams playing Annette...
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  • Louis, The Clock, The Harvey Girls, Adam's Rib, A Life of Her Own, Million Dollar Mermaid, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The Cobweb, Cash McCall, and The...
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    Morrow & Co. ISBN 978-0-68806-757-1. Williams, Esther (1999). The Million Dollar Mermaid: An Autobiography (1st ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-15-601135-8...
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  • three MGM films: Father of the Bride, Father's Little Dividend, and Million Dollar Mermaid. Her first screen credit came in 1952 with Universal's The Black...
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    make a profit for MGM until its 1949 re-release, earning only $3 million on a $2.7 million budget, making it MGM's most expensive production at the time...
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  • Role". New York Times. ProQuest 108194242. Williams, Esther (1999). Million Dollar Mermaid. Harcourt Brace. ISBN 0-15-601135-2. Take Me Out to the Ball Game...
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    ISBN 978-0-7864-1124-5. Williams, Esther; Diehl, Digby (1999). The Million Dollar Mermaid. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-684-85284-5. Marilyn Monroe...
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  • (borrowed from Paramount) and Paula Raymond. In her autobiography, Million Dollar Mermaid, Williams called this a "re-hash of the Esther Williams formula:...
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  • Oz 19 John McSweeney Jr. 83 US Film Editor Mutiny on the Bounty Million Dollar Mermaid 19 Alister Williamson 80 Australia Actor Battle of Britain The Abominable...
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    2020. Cox, Amy. 2004. Million Dollar Mermaid. Turner Classic Movies. https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2584/million-dollar-mermaid#articles-reviews?articleId=70939...
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    Christ (voice, uncredited) Mutiny (1952) – Lt. Vaughan (uncredited) Million Dollar Mermaid (1952) – English Reporter (uncredited) Rogue's March (1953) – Captain...
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    Uncredited 1952 Because of You Mexican Shop Owner Uncredited 1952 Million Dollar Mermaid Movie Set Engineer Uncredited 1952 The Bad and the Beautiful Studio...
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    Paris! (1952) – Biddle, an Editor Just for You (1952) – Hank Ross Million Dollar Mermaid (1952) – Director The I Don't Care Girl (1953) – Keith Theatre Manager...
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    Thousands Cheer seven years earlier. Williams, in her autobiography The Million Dollar Mermaid, writes of being touched, watching Powell rehearsing until her feet...
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    Rod Rogers has a very short role as Marceline in the 1952 film Million Dollar Mermaid. Cullen, Frank et al. Vaudeville old & new, Vol. 1, p. 719 (2007)...
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  • Feel Love)". The encore began with an instrumental intro dubbed "Million Dollar Mermaid", which featured projections of swimmers. This leads into a new...
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    papers. Kellerman was portrayed by Esther Williams in the film Million Dollar Mermaid (1952), and her name is on a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame...
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    1962. According to MGM accounts, the film earned $2.5 million in the U.S. and Canada and $1.5 million in other markets, but because of its high cost, it...
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  • Blood" (aka "Wiener Blut, Op. 354") also includes water ballets from Million Dollar Mermaid (1952) "I Wanna Be Loved by You" - sung by Helen Kane (lip-synced...
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    of the siren has been assimilated to that of the mermaid. For example, the French word for mermaid is sirène, Italian sirena, and similarly in certain...
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