What a marvelous movie!!

I loved this film too. I'm not sure that I'd call the first part of the film a water ballet but we did see Esther swim and I enjoyed that song he was singing to the girls and to Esther by the pool. The main plot story was very fun and amusing with Red Skelton at the all girls college, his relations with the girls, that great "you take the high note" number, and the hilarious part with Red in ballet class. If I had any complaints, it was that Esther should've lightened up a bit during the main school story. But putting myself in her shoes, she was dealing with a fiancé that completely broke her heart. The evidence at the wedding, as much as it was a setup, looked quite damning. She just should've asked to see a certificate of the other so-called marriage before completely jumping to her conclusion. But back in those days of people in general being more simple and honest than today, why would she have thought someone would've gone through that much trouble to create such a charade, and those boys really did look like young versions of Red. Anyway, SPOILER ALERT Esther more than redeems herself when she finally realizes Red's innoccence and falls back in love with him and then Esther in that spectacular, wonderful water ballet in the film's finale, the music, the fountains, the girls (the beautiful dancing girls outside of the pool and the beautiful girls in the pool doing their water dancing), and of course, beautiful talented Esther herself swimming.

Also, I met one of the outside the pool dancers several years ago (in 2009) in a nursing home. She said she was 20 in 1944 when the film was made. I'm not sure if she'd still be around now, sadly, since she'd be 92 or 93 now in 2016 going on 2017. But it was really great meeting someone in person that was in one of these old films. And she was so nice.