{"id":8850,"date":"2013-11-09T20:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T01:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=8850"},"modified":"2013-11-09T14:18:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T19:18:55","slug":"million-dollar-mermaid-1952-mervyn-leroy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/8850","title":{"rendered":"Million Dollar Mermaid (1952, Mervyn LeRoy)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, a decent Esther Williams movie.  True-ish story of record-breaking swimming star Annette Kellerman who controversially wore one-piece bathing suits (an arrestable offense in 1907) and somehow less-controversially appeared nude in major films.  Kellerman also pioneered synchronized swimming, which Esther re-enacts with Busby Berkeley rather than doing the nude scenes, unfortunately.  It&#8217;s the second movie (after <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/361\">Sherlock Jr.<\/a><\/em>) I&#8217;ve seen in which the star breaks his\/her neck onscreen during a water stunt.<\/p>\n<p>Victor Mature (Doc Holiday in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/5574\">My Darling Clementine<\/a><\/em>) plays Esther&#8217;s manager\/love-interest.  From the writer of <em>The Glass Bottom Boat<\/em> and director of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/6556\">Random Harvest<\/a><\/em>, nominated for best color cinematography but lost to <em>The Quiet Man<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, a decent Esther Williams movie. True-ish story of record-breaking swimming star Annette Kellerman who controversially wore one-piece bathing suits (an arrestable offense in 1907) and somehow less-controversially appeared nude in major films. Kellerman also pioneered synchronized swimming, which Esther re-enacts with Busby Berkeley rather than doing the nude scenes, unfortunately. It&#8217;s the second movie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1723,1722,1347],"class_list":["post-8850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-busby-berkeley","tag-esther-williams","tag-mervyn-leroy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8902,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850\/revisions\/8902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}