Esther Williams: Hollywood's Mermaid
2024•53m•Released
DocumentaryTV Movie
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
Director
Charles-Antoine de Rouvre
Writer
Charles-Antoine de Rouvre
Languages
French
Studio
Zeta Productions
Cast
Esther Williams
Self (archive footage)
Mesha Kussman
Self
Production
Company
Zeta Productions
Company
ARTE GEIE
Producer
Mariana Bojic Walter
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