

Esther Williams: Hollywood's Mermaid
2024-08-11 · 53 min · ★ 6.8
The story of Esther Williams is that of an improbable encounter. That of the glamorous Hollywood of the 1940s with a swimming champion. A meeting that gave birth to the most kitsch and flamboyant genre films in Technicolor: the Aqua-musicals! A dive into the troubled waters of post-war Hollywood, where only her qualities as an athlete allow an extraordinary actress to fight to emancipate herself and avoid the traps of the predators who lurk around her
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- Charles-Antoine de Rouvre
- Production companies
- Zeta Productions, ARTE GEIE
- Countries
- France
- Status
- Released
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