Skirts Ahoy!

Skirts Ahoy!
Original film poster
Directed bySidney Lanfield
Written byIsobel Lennart
Produced byJoe Pasternak
StarringEsther Williams
Joan Evans
Vivian Blaine
CinematographyWilliam Mellor
Edited byCotton Warburton
Music byHarry Warren
Ralph Blane
Production
company
Distributed byLoew's, Inc.
Release date
  • September 8, 1952 (1952-09-08)
Running time
109 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2 million[1]
Box office$4 million[1]

Skirts Ahoy! is a 1952 musical film directed by Sidney Lanfield, and starring Esther Williams, Vivian Blaine and Joan Evans. Shot in Technicolor,[2] the film follows several women who join the WAVES with sequences filmed on location at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station. It also features the film debut of Billy Eckstine.

  1. ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  2. ^ "Skirts Ahoy! (1952) - Sidney Lanfield | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie".