Neptune's Daughter

1949 "With a Great Cast of Stars! Bathing Beauties! Songs and Spectacle!"
6.3| 1h35m| NR| en| More Info
Released: 10 June 1949 Released
Producted By: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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Scatterbrained Betty Barrett mistakes masseur Jack Spratt for Jose O'Rourke, the captain of the South American polo team. Spratt goes along with the charade, but the situation becomes more complicated when they fall in love. Meanwhile, Betty's sensible older sister Eve fears Betty's heart will be broken when Jose returns to South America. She arranges to meet with the real O'Rourke and love soon blossoms between them as well.

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Comedy, Music, Romance

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Director

Edward Buzzell

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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Neptune's Daughter Audience Reviews

Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Dorathen Better Late Then Never
Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
TheLittleSongbird While not a great film, and it won't be for all tastes, 'Neptune's Daughter' was to me an entertaining film that ticked most of the right boxes.'Neptune's Daughter' is at its weakest in the story department, where the silly and thin mistaken-identity story is purely functional at best, where a few parts border on the improbable. Keenan Wynn is given little to do and his acting and narration felt like they belonged in another (darker) film because they seemed at odds here. Most of the comedy is a lot of good-natured fun, but some falls flat due to being overdone somewhat.However, 'Neptune's Daughter' is a beautiful-looking film, with opulent use of colour, handsome cinematography and elegant costumes and sets. The songs and music are pleasant and energetic, "Baby It's Cold Outside" being one of the most deserving wins in the Best Song category though Red Skelton and Betty Garrett's number with Xavier Cugat is a delight too.While not all the comedy works, most of it does and in a way that's genuinely amusing and good-natured. The highlight is Skelton and Garrett's first date in her apartment, a hilarious scene and beautifully played and executed. The staging for the songs is suitably spirited and always pleasing visually, though while the big water ballet is beautifully photographed and performed and fun it wasn't quite the "aqua spectacular" that was expected, just lacking the continuous energy and imagination of the best Esther Williams water ballets.Esther Williams is very charming and brightens up the screen whether in or out of the water, while Ricardo Montalban is suave, devilishly handsome and full of energy and charisma. Red Skelton seems to be really enjoying himself and is very funny, a riot even in his best bits, and bubbly Betty Garrett enchants the viewer from the moment she's introduced to her last second. Look out also for a rare live-action appearance from the immortal voice actor Mel Blanc, in case you don't spot him he's the mustachioed guy that sounds exactly like Speedy Gonzales.In conclusion, a very enjoyable film that did make me feel warm inside, though it is not masterpiece status. 7/10 Bethany Cox
edwagreen Very comical film where a person's identity leads to all sorts of mayhem, including a near rivalry between two sisters, and the bad guys after the same wrong man.Along with the mayhem, came the Oscar winning song "Baby, It's Cold Outside," sang with such zest by Esther Williams and Ricardo Montalban, at at the same time, Betty Garrett and Red Skelton. It was really tunefully done. This song, in winning the Oscar, beat out "My Foolish Heart," from the 1949 tearjerker with same name with Susan Hayward and Dana Andrews. That song winning must have been some sort of academy upset, by that was not unusual in the best song category.You can't imagine how long the confusion regarding Montalban's identity will go on. It provides for a funny premise, and Red Skelton riding a horse and playing polo is also quite hilarious.Great comic line in the film: "Love has ruined more businesses than the Sherman-Anti Trust Act! ...To think, the latter was in 1890.
marcslope MGM colleague Fanny Brice on Esther Williams: "Wet she's a star. Dry she ain't." She's mostly dry in this halfhearted Jack Cummings musical, and while she acts competently and even sounds like she's doing her own singing on "Baby, It's Cold Outside," hers isn't a dynamic screen personality. It's an assembly-line plot with a few good gags, and the cast -- handsome Ricardo Montalban, appealing Betty Garrett, silly Red Skelton, I'll-play-anything-to-keep-my-contract Keenan Wynn -- is game. But there's barely enough Frank Loesser to keep it feeling like a musical, and the plotting is so casual that Wynn, as the guy who doesn't get the girl, has to turn unaccountably into a good sport in the last reel just to make the happy ending feel happier. The color's pretty, and director Edward Buzzell (whose other big MGM musical, "Best Foot Forward," is far superior) keeps things moving. And Skelton, so annoying in so much studio product, is marginally less so here. But the sexism of the day (Williams, a career gal, is still man-controlled) is irritating, and even the underwater ballet feels perfunctory. One compensation: a superbly dirty, how-did-it-get-past-the-censors verbal exchange between Skelton and Garrett ("and now you will please turn over"), early on.
dm032 ho-hum bit of nonsense as tough-minded businesswoman Esther Williams falls bit by bit for South American polo playboy Ricardo Montalban. Their courtship is paralleled by the romance between dorky masseur Skelton and William's man-hungry sister, Garrett. Best scene is the double version of "Baby it's Cold Outside" with Williams and Skelton as the coy maidens.