Cinematography
Cypress Gardens looks impossibly, artificially perfect.
Practical Effects
Real water skiers, real danger, real Esther lungs.

Director
Charles Walters
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Esther Williams performed her own water skiing stunts, including a dangerous jump over a wooden ramp. She was secretly terrified.
Cypress Gardens became a tourist boom thanks to this film, essentially inventing Florida as a vacation destination for middle America.
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