Million Dollar Mermaid

Esther Williams was truly a one-of-a-kind in the movie business. By her own admission, she couldn't sing, dance, or even act very well, and being a swimmer was hardly enough to make movies about. Still, she did 25 films for MGM, only a few of which justified her diving and swimming. In MILLION DOLLAR MERMAID, Williams plays a real-life heroine of the water, Annette Kellerman. Liberties were taken with the true story by writer Freeman, who usually wrote in collaboration but took a solo screen credit on this film. It's the early 1890s in Australia. Corcoran, the 10-year-old daughter of music teacher Pidgeon, has been born with a leg disorder but she builds her streng...