Easy to Love
Screening on Film
Directed by Charles Walters.
With Esther Williams, Van Johnson, Tony Martin.
US, 1953, 35mm, color, 95 min.
With Esther Williams, Van Johnson, Tony Martin.
US, 1953, 35mm, color, 95 min.
Williams stars as the main attraction in an aquacade run by her indifferent boss (Johnson). She only wants him to notice her, but he is consumed with the show’s financial concerns. Meanwhile, Tony Martin pines away for the leading lady in song. Once again, the plot only serves to give the audience more of what they want: Esther in the water. Berkeley outdoes himself with an intricately staged motorboat/hang glider production number filmed at Florida’s Cypress Gardens.
