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    esther-williams .com. Esther Jane Williams (August 8, 1921 – June 6, 2013) was an American competitive swimmer and actress. She set regional and national records in her late teens on the Los Angeles Athletic Club swim team. Unable to compete in the 1940 Summer Olympics because of the outbreak of World War II, she joined Billy Rose's Aquacade ...

  2. www.britannica.com › biography › Esther-WilliamsEsther Williams | Biography, Swimmer, Movies, & Facts

    Apr 27, 2024 · Esther Williams (born August 8, 1921, Inglewood, California, U.S.—died June 6, 2013, Beverly Hills, California) was an American swimming champion who became one of the most popular and profitable Hollywood movie stars of the 1940s and ’50s. Williams was a teenaged swimming champion who set a record for the 100-metre breaststroke in 1939 and ...

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  4. www.cnn.com › 2013/06/06 › showbizEsther Williams, star of film and swimming, dies at 91 | CNN

    Jun 6, 2013 · 1 of 14. CNN —. Esther Williams, whose success as a competitive swimmer propelled her to stardom on the silver screen in the 1940s and 1950s, died Thursday in California, her spokesman said ...

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    Esther Williams. Actress: Take Me Out to the Ball Game. Esther Jane Williams was born on August 8, 1921 in Inglewood, California. Her youth was spent as a teenage swimming champion and she won three United States National championships. She eventually was spotted by a MGM talent scout while working in a Los Angeles department store. She made her film debut with MGM in an "Andy Hardy" picture ...

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  7. www.nytimes.com › 2013/06/07 › moviesEsther Williams, Who Swam to Movie Fame, Dies at 91 - The New ...

    Esther Williams, a teenage swimming champion who became an enormous Hollywood star in a decade of watery MGM extravaganzas, died on Thursday in Beverly Hills, Calif. She was 91. Her death was ...

  8. www.newworldencyclopedia.org › entry › Esther_WilliamsEsther Williams - New World Encyclopedia

    Esther Williams. Esther Jane Williams (August 8, 1922 - June 6, 2013) was a United States competitive swimmer and 1940s and 1950s movie star. Known as "America's Mermaid," she was famous for her musical films that featured elaborate performances with swimming, diving and "water ballet," which is now known as synchronized swimming.

  9. www.smithsonianmag.com › smithsonian-institutionSwimming Champion and Actress Esther Williams Dies, Her ...

    Jun 6, 2013 · Williams left competition in 1940 to make a living, selling clothes in a department store for a few months until she was invited by showman Billy Rose to work a bathing beauty job in his Aquacade ...