Skirts Ahoy!

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Skirts Ahoy!
Original film poster
Directed by	Sidney Lanfield
Starring	Esther Williams
Release dates	September 8, 1952
Running time	109 mins.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$2,003,000^[1]
Box office	$4,049,000^[1]

Skirts Ahoy! is a 1952 MGM musical film shot in Technicolor and directed by Sidney Lanfield. It stars Esther Williams and Joan Evans.^[2]The films follows the adventures of several women who join the WAVES with sequences filmed on location at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station. The film also features the film debut of Billy Eckstein.

Cast

Esther Williams as Whitney Young
Joan Evans as Mary Kate Yarbrough (singing voice was dubbed by Joan Elms)
Vivian Blaine as Una Yancy
Barry Sullivan as Lt. Cmdr. Paul Elcott
Keefe Brasselle as Dick Hallson

Reception

According to MGM records the film earned $2,585,000 in the US and Canada^[3] and $1,464,000 overseas, resulting in a profit of $342,000.^[1]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study .
↑ http://www.allmovie.com/movie/skirts-ahoy%21-v45039
↑ 'Top Box-Office Hits of 1952', Variety, January 7, 1953

External links

Skirts Ahoy! at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Sidney Lanfield

Cheer Up and Smile (1930)
Three Girls Lost (1931)
Hush Money (1931)
Moulin Rouge (1934)
Red Salute (1935)
King of Burlesque (1936)
One in a Million (1936)
Sing, Baby, Sing (1936)
Wake Up and Live (1937)
Thin Ice (1937)
Always Goodbye (1938)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
Second Fiddle (1939)
Swanee River (1939)
You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
My Favorite Blonde (1942)
Where There's Life (1947)
Station West (1948)
Sorrowful Jones (1949)
The Lemon Drop Kid (1951)
Follow the Sun (1951)
Skirts Ahoy! (1952)

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