‘Drowned already?’ said the Little Mermaid. ‘No. He will not drown. I will not let him drown.’ So she swam to the prince, carried him back up to the surface and held his head up out of the ...

It is no surprise that mermaids feature in several ... Crawford sees the visual power of The Little Mermaid as coming from the legacy of Esther Williams, saying that Disney was able to “take ...