Easy to Love (1953)
- Starring:
- Esther Williams, Van Johnson, (more)
- Director(s):
- Charles Walters
Synopsis of Easy to Love
The Cole Porter title tune is but one of the musical highlights in the (literally) splashy Esther Williams musical Easy to Love. Reshuffling plot devices utilized in previous Williams vehicles, the film casts Williams as Julie Hallerton, the star of Ray Lloyd's (Van Johnson) aquacade. She loves Lloyd, but he hardly knows she exists. Only when she inaugurates romances with swimming instructor Hank (John Bromfield) and singer Barry (Tony Martin) does Lloyd wake up and smell the chlorine. The plot's finale is top-heavy with "good sport" behavior involving the three male leads. However, if you've come to an Esther Williams movie for the plot, maybe you'd better try another theatre. Easy to Love is the film that includes Busby Berkeley's legendary "motorboat/hang-glider" production number, performed at Florida's Cypress Gardens--though, incredibly, this aquatic tour de force is not the end of the picture! ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Easy to Love
- Esther Williams - Julie Hallerton
- Tony Martin - Barry Gordon
- Edna Skinner - Nancy Parmel
- King Donovan - Ben
- Eddie Oliver - Band Leader
- Violet Seton
- Helen Dickson
- Fenton Hamilton - Fat Man
- Dorothy Vernon - Women Guests in Lobby
- Emory Parnell - Mr. Huffnagel
- Edward Clark - Gardener
- Sandra Gould - Ben's Wife
- Joseph Mell - Sleepy Waiter
- Van Johnson - Ray Lloyd
- John Bromfield - Hank
- Carroll Baker - Clarice
- Paul Bryar - Mr. Barnes
- Margaret Bert - Mrs. Huffnagel
- Peggy Remington
- Benny Rubin - Oscar Levenson
- June Whitley - Costume Designer
- Reginald Simpson - Photographer
- Cyd Charisse
- Lillian Culver - Flora
- Byron Kane
- David Newell - Makeup Man
- Director(s):
- Charles Walters
- Writer(s):
- Laszlo Vadnay, William Roberts
- Producer(s):
- Joe Pasternak
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