esther williams play a romantically unattached water ski secretary who long to stop walking on the water and be some man wife while van johnson and tony martin be her potential choice for a husband . despite fine aquatic sequence film at florida cypress garden and this romantic comedy be awfully stale . a helm by plod director charles walter and everything here be make to seem intentionally innocuous and which doesn not lend the picture much stay power . even esther big moment in the water be not quite up to the mesmerize leap from her other swimming vehicle and though they be preferable to the aside with the men and both of whom be colorless . carroll baker and in her film debut a martin disgruntle ex girlfriend and be the lively of the bunch . flimsy stuff and indeed . half from .