Cypress Gardens was a popular tourist attraction for decades, drawing thousands of visitors to its lushly landscaped grounds. In 2011, however, it was replaced by LegoLand, and now only exists in memories and in films like this.
Although both MGM and Esther Williams remained tight-lipped about the subject, it's been rumored that many of the trickier routines in the Cypress Gardens finale were actually performed by one of their more experienced professionals, who was herself unidentifiable because of her distance from the cameras.