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BATHING BEAUTY

1944

Directed by George Sidney

Written by Joseph Schrank, Kenneth Earl, M.M. Musselman, Curtis Kenyon, Allen Boretz, Frank Waldman, and Dorothy Kingsley

Spoilers: moderate

If it was gay, bright, and beautiful, that's how Ziggy wanted it

ZIEGFELD FOLLIES

1946

Directed by Vincente Minnelli, Charles Walters, George Sidney, Lemuel Ayers, Roy Del Ruth, and Robert Lewis

Spoiler alert: inapplicable (and as I've said before, it's difficult to be brief with musicals or anthologies, and this one's both)

Hannibal ante portas

JUPITER'S DARLING

1955

Directed by George Sidney

Written by Dorothy Kingsley (based on the play The Road to Rome by Robert Sherwood)

Spoiler alert: unless you're somehow surprised to learn that Rome won the Second Punic War, actually quite mild