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The Most Iconic Swimsuit Moments in Movie History

Esther Williams – Easy to Love, 1953

Esther Williams is a renowned American competitive swimmer and actress. Williams will forever be remembered as the starlet who turned swimming into an art form.  Her most famous movie Million Dollar Mermaid is based on Australian aquatic star Annette Kellerman. The film is an ultimate showcase of Esther’s unique aquatic talents.

Easy to Love is a technicolor musical film directed by Charles Walters. It is choreographed by Busby Berkeley and stars Williams, Van Johnson, and Tony Martin. It was Williams’ final aquatic film set in the United States. Her retro look in a white swimsuit makes her appear exceptionally beautiful.

Brooke Shields – The Blue Lagoon, 1980

Brooke Christa Shields is the daughter of famous model and actress Teri Shields. Born in 1965 and began her modeling career at just 11 months old. She had a very successful career as a child model and actress. She was the youngest fashion model to be on the cover of Vogue at just 14 years.

Arguably The Blue Lagoon was her best-known movie released in 1980, in which she played the role of Emmeline. This movie was quite sensual and starred Christopher Atkins along with Brooke Shields. The film about teenage love on a tropical island and including nude scenes grossed over $58 million on just a $4.5million budget.

Phoebe Cates – Fast Times at Ridgemont High, 1982

Being a former American actress Phoebe Belle Cates Kline is popularly known for her roles in movies like Fast Time at Ridgemont High, Drop Dead Fred, and Gremlins. She was born on July 16, 1963, and began her career as a model, which was short yet successful.

Released in 1982, Fast times at Ridgemont High is a drama-comedy movie that earned more than $27 Million. Phoebe played the role of Linda Barrett in this film which brought her immense fame and took her to the cover pages of magazines like Tiger Beat and Seventeen. The Rolling stones described the movie as “the most memorable bikini-drop in cinema history.”

Elizabeth Taylor – Suddenly Last Summer, 1960

Elizabeth Taylor was born on 27th February 1932 and is a British-American actress. She started her career as a little kid and became the most famous celebrity of classic Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. Born to socially eminent parents, she went ahead to build a life of her own with hard work and passion.

In the 1960s, Elizabeth became the highest-paid movie star. Her stunning shots in the white bikini from the movie Suddenly, Last Summer instantly became the talk of the town. According to the makers, it was a good thing for the film in a controversial way. The theatrical poster which was released also had Taylor’s famous bikini picture.

Marilyn Monroe – How to Marry a Millionaire, 1953

Marilyn Monroe is a well-known American actress, model, and singer of the mid-90s, and her films grossed $200 million even by the time of her passing. Her most famous movie is the 1952 thriller Don’t Bother to Knock. Nell Forbes’s character is a beautiful but melancholy young woman taking a babysitting job after being released from a psychiatric facility.

Her movie, How to Marry a Millionaire, is about three women on a mission to marry millionaires. They leave no stone unturned to accomplish this task but eventually settle for true love rather than riches. Her iconic swimsuit look reveals her style.

Pamela Anderson – Baywatch, 1995

Pamela Denise Anderson is a famous American-Canadian Actress, author, model, TV personality, and activist. She was born on July 1, 1967, and is well known for appearing in magazines like Playboy for her commendable work in various TV series like Baywatch and V.I.P.

She rose to fame with her role as a fictional character as Casey Jean, popularly known as C.J. Parker from the famous series Baywatch. Anderson became an international sensation as a sensual symbol after her role as C.J. Parker, the longest-serving character. The iconic red swimsuits from the Baywatch series were custom-made for all the actresses.

Esther Williams – Easy to Love, 1953

Esther Williams is a renowned American competitive swimmer and actress. Williams will forever be remembered as the starlet who turned swimming into an art form.  Her most famous movie Million Dollar Mermaid is based on Australian aquatic star Annette Kellerman. The film is an ultimate showcase of Esther’s unique aquatic talents.

Easy to Love is a technicolor musical film directed by Charles Walters. It is choreographed by Busby Berkeley and stars Williams, Van Johnson, and Tony Martin. It was Williams’ final aquatic film set in the United States. Her retro look in a white swimsuit makes her appear exceptionally beautiful.

Deborah Kerr – From Here to Eternity, 1953

Deborah Kerr is a British actress who received the Academy Honorary Award recognizing her as an artist of impeccable grace and beauty. Her motion picture career has always stood for perfection, discipline, and elegance. Her most famous movie Edward, My Son, revolves around a father’s extreme attempts to protect his corrupt son. Kerr stars as his long-suffering wife, who grows to resent the way he spoiled their child.

This movie, From Here to Eternity, shows Army barracks in Hawaii in the days preceding the attack on Pearl Harbor. Kerr in the film has left her admirers awed with her stunning looks as visible in the image.

Jane Russell – The French Line, 1953

Ernestine Russell is an American actress, singer, and model known as one of Hollywood’s leading beauties of the 40s and 50s. Her most popular movie, The Outlaw, depicts western legends Pat Garrett, Doc Holliday, and Billy, the kids who played against each other over the law and the attentions of vivacious country vixen Rio McDonald.

The shown still is from her other famous movie, The French Line, in which Russell played an oil heiress with a fortune so immense that it intimidates most men, leaving only an eager line of gold-digging suitors. Posing in white and black lingerie, Russell looks retro darling in the movie.

Brigitte Bardot – Girl In The Bikini, 1958

Though today she is a hardworking animal rights activist, there was a time when this French beauty could actually steal all hearts with her angel-like face and amazing body. Brigitte Bardot is a former actress who got into the spotlight after appearing in the French movie Manina, la fille sans voiles, also released in the US as Manina, the Girl in the Bikini.

Apparently, Bardot’s father signed some contract to not show anything indecent about her daughter. But, amidst the filming, a picture of her was released wearing a white bikini that became a major highlight of the film.

Sophia Loren – Madame Sans Gene, 1961

Italian women are beautiful, and this evergreen actress is a living example of that. If you are passionate about something, none of the obstacles can stop you, be it being born in a low-income family or having no dialogues in the debut project she faced and conquered it all.

Currently, she is the only living actress mentioned in the Greatest Female Stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema list. Among many of her noteworthy movies, one is the 1961 film Madame Sans Gene, where she portrayed Catherine Hubscher. Her glamorous glimpse from the film set a benchmark for all the other actresses at that time.

Joan Blackman – Blue Hawaii, 1961

Joan May Blackman, aka John Blackman, was born on 17th May 1938 in San Francisco, California. She started as an actor at the age of 19 and gained an immediate following with her incredible talent and hard work. Although she is not working as an actor anymore, Joan is quite famous on social media.

Out of all the fantastic work she has done, she got most recognized for her movies with Elvis Presley; one of them is Blue Hawaii, where she played the role of Elvis’s girlfriend. Elvis was smitten with her even before they did a movie together. While they were filming, his not rumors about them dating also sparked.

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