Duchess of Idaho
 

Saw that movie on TCM yesterday. MGM 1950, Esther Williams, Van Johnson.

Nice shots of the single chair at Sun Valley, and 50's equipment and clothing styles. Not bad ski technique, either. I wonder if they used stunt doubles.

Duchess of Idaho
 

On 07/03/2016 12:22 PM, Richard Henry wrote:
On Friday, July 1, 2016 at 10:12:20 PM UTC-7, The Real Bev wrote:
On 07/01/2016 05:38 PM, Richard Henry wrote:
Saw that movie on TCM yesterday. MGM 1950, Esther Williams, Van
Johnson.

Nice shots of the single chair at Sun Valley, and 50's equipment
and clothing styles. Not bad ski technique, either. I wonder if
they used stunt doubles.

IMDB was not helpful. Given that EW was an actual athlete, it's
not out of the question that she did her own stunts. I always
liked her because she had big shoulders like me. VJ was always a
sneak or a wuss.

Sonja Henie was a real athlete also, but Gretchen Fraser doubled the
ski scenes for her in Sun Valley Serenade.

Insurance reasons, probably.

EW's skiing scenes were typically Hollywood setups. The scenes of
good skiing were at a distance so that it was no possible to identify
th e skier, then she "fell" - switch to a closeup of Esther Williams
in a heap in the snow.

I disliked Van Johnson for a nonsense reason - What kind of a name is
Van?

There are worse things to be named after than a tennis shoe. He's still
a wuss.

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Cheers, Bev
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deserve to have any." --Oscar Wilde