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Learn about Esther Williams, an American competitive swimmer and actress who starred in aquamusicals and set records in the 1940s and 1950s. Find out about her early life, career, marriages, business ventures and legacy.
Esther Williams was a swimming champion and a Hollywood star who made aqua musicals at MGM. She was married four times, had five children, and died in 2013 at age 91.
- August 8, 1921
- June 6, 2013
Aug 4, 2024 · Learn about Esther Williams, an American swimming champion who starred in musicals with elaborate water scenes. Find out her biography, achievements, movies, and death.
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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.
- January 1, 1
- Inglewood, California, USA
- January 1, 1
- Beverly Hills, California, USA
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....
Jun 6, 2013 · LOS ANGELES (AP) — As a teenager, Esther Williams dreamed of Olympic glory on the U.S. swim team. She had to settle instead for becoming a movie star. The self-described “Million Dollar Mermaid,” whose wholesome beauty, shapely figure and aquatic skills launched an entire genre of movies — the Technicolor “aqua musicals” — died ...
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Jun 6, 2013 · 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.
