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Neptune's Daughter

NEPTUNE'S DAUGHTER

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CREDITS

1949, 93 minutes, Technicolor.
Producer, Jack Cummings; Director, Edward Buzzell; Screenplay, Dorothy Kingsley; Cinematography, Charles Rosher; Music Direction, Georgie Stoll; Choreography, Jack Donohue.

CAST

Eve Barrett, Esther Williams; Jack Spratt, Red Skelton; Jose O'Rourke, Ricardo Montalban; Betty Barrett, Betty Garrett; Joe Beckett, Keenan Wynn; Lukie Luzette, Ted de Corsia; Mac Mazolla, Mike Mazurki; Julio, Mel Blanc; Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra.

SONGS

Baby, It's Cold Outside; My Heart Beats Faster; I Love Those Men by Frank Loesser; Cachita by Bernardo S. Sancristobal and Rafel Hernandez; Jungle Rhumba by Tony Beaulieu; Jungle Fantasy by Esy Morales.

PLOT SYNOPSIS

". . .Esther plays a young businesswoman, a designer and manufacturer of swim suits, who spends most of the movie half-heartedly fending off the advances of a Latin American polo star (Ricardo Montalban). Her dizzy sister (Garrett) mistakenly assumes that Red Skelton, the masseur at the polo club, is Montalban, the millionaire sportsman, and sets out to get him. Skelton. . .goes along with the gag to win the girl - even to the point of playing polo when he barely knows one end of the horse from the other."
- Lawrence B. Thomas, The MGM Years

NOTES

"Dorothy Kingsley's racy screenplay was full of fun and skillfully accommodated the musical interpolations, including an elaborate voodoo dance number, and an eye-filling water ballet (staged by Jack Donohue)."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical

"Once a year about this time, Metro comes along with a great big beautiful musical, full of slickness and Technicolor plush, models and Xavier Cugat rhythm and Esther Williams in a water ballet, and everybody is happy - if they like that sort of thing."
- Bosley Crowther, The New York Times

"Generally thought one of the better aquatic musicals, and certainly very typical of them and its studio at this time."
- Halliwell's Film Guide

ACADEMY AWARD WINNER:
Best Song - "Baby, It's Cold Outside"

Neptune's Daughter was the 10th highest-grossing film of the year. See Box Office Hits

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