Jupiter's Darling (film)
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| Directed by | George Sidney |
| Produced by | George Wells |
| Written by | Dorothy Kingsley |
| Starring |
Esther Williams Howard Keel Marge Champion Gower Champion George Sanders Richard Haydn |
| Music by | David Rose |
| Cinematography |
Charles Rosher Paul Vogel |
| Edited by | Ralph E. Winters |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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95 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3,337,000 |
| Box office | $2,520,000 |
Jupiter's Darling is a musical romance film released by MGM in 1955 and directed by George Sidney. It starred Esther Williams as the Roman woman Amytis, Howard Keel as Hannibal, the Carthaginian military commander and George Sanders as Fabius Maximus, Amytis's fiance. In the film, Amytis helps Hannibal swim the Tiber River to take a closer look at Rome's fortifications.
The film features many historical characters, including Roman generals Fabius Maximus and Scipio Africanus who appears briefly, in addition to Hannibal. Carthaginians Mago Barca and Maharbal also appear.
Jupiter's Darling was based on Robert E. Sherwood's anti-war comedy play The Road to Rome (1927).
The film was the last of three films Williams and Keel made together, the other two being Pagan Love Song (1950) and Texas Carnival (1951).
Williams had been on maternity leave for three months while pregnant with daughter Susan, and had assumed that she would get straight to work on the film Athena. She, along with writers Leo Pogostin and Chuck Walters created the premise for Athena while making Easy to Love, and Walters finished the script while Williams was on maternity leave. However, Athena had already begun shooting when Williams arrived back from leave, and the studio had changed the swimming sequences to dancing sequences and replaced Williams with Jane Powell. Williams was then assigned Jupiter's Darling.Jo Ann Greer, who sang for Williams, also dubbed June Allyson in MGM's The Opposite Sex and Rita Hayworth in three films, including Pal Joey.
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