Esther Williams Movies

The Wolves baseball team gets steamed when they find they've been inherited by one K.C. Higgins, a suspected "fathead" who intends to take an active...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frank Sinatra

Documentary about Hollywood.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jeff Bridges

A cocky Air Force pilot stationed in England during World War II falls for a daring female flier. After he's killed on a mission, he is sent back to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Spencer Tracy

Two men vie for the heart of a Cypress Gardens swimming star.

Genre: Music

Cast: Esther Williams

A Texas carnival showmen team is mistaken for a cattle baron and his sister.

Genre: Music

Cast: Esther Williams

Andy is about to head off to college but he's got a few things to take care of before leaving. For starters, he must try and sell his junk car for...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lewis Stone

The health conscious, dairy-farming Higgins family begin each day with an invigorating swim. One day, traveling health-tonic salesman, Windy Weebe,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Esther Williams

After overcoming polio, Annette Kellerman achieves fame and creates a scandal when her one-piece bathing suit is considered indecent.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Esther Williams

Scatterbrained Betty Barrett mistakes masseur Jack Spratt for Jose O'Rourke, the captain of the South American polo team. Spratt goes along with the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Esther Williams

A young navy lieutenant is brought in as technical adviser on a song-dance-and-swim film being made by screen star Rosalind Reynolds. Having once...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Esther Williams

A soldier falls in love with a newly-married woman after her husband abandons her for a business meeting on their honeymoon.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Van Johnson

After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a legal loophole allows him to enroll as one of her...

Genre: Music

Cast: Red Skelton

When a matador leaves town to focus on his music, his twin sister takes on his identity in the bullfighting ring.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Esther Williams

When a newspaper accuses a wealthy socialite of being a homewrecker, she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit. The publication's frazzled head...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Van Johnson

An ex-GI falls for a bathing beauty.

Genre: Music

Cast: Esther Williams

Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage...

Genre: Music

Cast: June Allyson

Island girl Mimi plans to leave Tahiti, but maybe she'll have a reason to stay when Mr. Endicott arrives.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Esther Williams

A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected....

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Powell

A high-school music teacher is the victim of a student who writes indecent notes and assaults women.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Esther Williams

Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: June Allyson

Ellen Hallit is in love with her playboy boss, Douglas Morrison, but is too timid to do anything about it. To help her, her roommate Chris decides to...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Esther Williams

A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dick Cavett

Rome is on the verge of being conquered by Hannibal. While Rome's ruler, Fabius Maximus, plots a defense against Hannibal's armies, Fabius'...

Genre: Music

Cast: Esther Williams

Passengers struggle to survive after their plane crashes on a remote island. Director Richard Wilson's 1958 drama stars Esther Williams, Jeff...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Esther Williams

Three young ladies sign up for some kind of training at a naval base. However, their greatest trouble isn't long marches or several weeks in a small...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Esther Williams

The history of color photography in motion pictures, in particular the Technicolor company's work.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Angela Lansbury

A European circus family is torn apart by greed and jealousy.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Esther Williams

The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.

Genre: War

Cast: Edward Arnold

American dancer and choreographer Hermes Pan recalls his life and work as he relives the glorious history of the Hollywood musical.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hermes Pan

Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Fred Astaire

Two smart marketing people resurrect some old films starring cowboy Smoky Callaway and put them on television. The films are a big hit and the star...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fred MacMurray

A financier decides to take a vacation somewhere where nothing can disturb him. He travels to the south of Spain, to a small village where he lives a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Esther Williams

This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Debbie Allen

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Esther Williams

American Masters Series. Documentary on Gene Kelly that gives insight into his dancing, how he formed a style (first "blue collar dancer") and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stanley Tucci

The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.

Genre: Music

Cast: William Powell

Highlights from the great musicals of the 1940s. Stars featured include Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Bing Crosby, Doris...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Frank Sinatra

Celebrate the fiftieth birthday of the animated cat-and-mouse team, Tom & Jerry, including clips from their animated shorts!

Genre: Animation

Cast: John Goodman

Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Fred Astaire

This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Frank Whitbeck

This short focuses on the job of the costume designer in the production of motion pictures. The costume designer must design clothing that is correct...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Eve Arden

A documentary film about dancing on the screen, from it's orgins after the invention of the movie camera, over the movie musical from the late 20s,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mikhail Baryshnikov

Johnny Weismuller, Esther Williams and other aquatic champions present an exhibition of swimming and diving.

Genre:

Cast: Johnny Weissmüller

Story of Annette Kellerman, the international swimming vaudeville and silent screen star whose life story inspired the MGM classic Million Dollar...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Annette Kellerman

In this "Romance of Celluloid", MGM showcases performers whose careers are just starting. Excerpts from their recently released films are included....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Patricia Dane

This short film takes a look at the off-screen personas of screen actors. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Nesbitt

Documentary profile of legendary dance choreographer Busby Berkeley.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Busby Berkeley

Andy Hardy, now a grown man with a wife and children, returns to his hometown on a business trip and finds himself getting mixed up in local politics.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mickey Rooney

A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film.

Genre: Family

Cast: James Stewart

American Movie Classics produced this original salute to those celebrities who worked to improve the morale of the soldiers in World War II. Hosted...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tony Randall