Miss Williams, a pretty young woman in the pink of condition, should have a pleasant and pleasing career on the screen.

Director George Sidney has all the oomph and vulgarity required, but he can't do anything about Red Skelton, who takes up way too much time and space.

Red Skelton and Esther Williams have solid chemistry in Bathing Beauty but the studio was smart to recognize that Williams--in her third screen outing for MGM--was going to be a star.

The first but hardly the best of the splashy (in both senses of the word) MGM musicals starring Esther Williams.