is a 1952 musical film directed by Sidney Lanfield, and starring Esther Williams, Vivian Blaine and Joan Evans.

Three young women who previously have had traumatic emotional experiences decide to change their lives by enlisting in the WAVES.

Whitney Young, a socialite from Long Island who has been engaged multiple times, left her fiancé standing at the altar.

Una Yancy, from New York City, is determined to track down Archie, her boyfriend in the Navy she has only heard from twice in two years, and be assigned to the same station he is serving in; he last contacted her from Paris.

Whitney is named recruit company commander after saving Mary Kate from drowning during swim training.

Whitney and Una adapt to the rigors of boot camp; Mary Kate does not, suffering from homesickness to the point she winds up facing an elimination board which can discharge her from the Navy for inadaptability.

She is saved by the testimony of Lt. Dr. Paul Elliot, her date from the night before, who, after the board dismisses her without disciplinary action, rebukes Whitney for her behavior.

[N 1] At a USO dance for personnel of all the services, a precision drill platoon made up of black WAVES puts on a performance.

Her night finishes with her dancing with Pops, the civilian plumber who spends his time trying to keep the barracks plumbing from being clogged by half-eaten all day suckers.

The two hold a whispered discussion about their characters, with Elliot throwing Whitney's history of 12 engagements in her face and her ripping him for his air of superiority in social matters.

[1] A contemporary review of the film in Variety reported that the "plot is an adequate support for the typical musical comedy material most of the time," that "Williams has two okay swim numbers," and that "Barry Sullivan rates the most of the little tossed to the actors in the cast.