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Esther Williams broke her neck upon impact while performing the film's signature high dive. She wrote in her memoir that she was already disoriented atop the platform after seven broken eardrums as the wages of her years working underwater.
With Esther Williams, Victor Mature, Walter Pidgeon, David Brian. Biopic of Australian swimming champ and entertainer Annette Kellerman. After overcoming polio, Kellerman achieves fame and creates a scandal when her one-piece bathing suit is considered indecent.
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- Biography, Drama, Musical
- Mervyn LeRoy
- 1953-03-13
Aug 14, 2021 · Swimming star and actress Esther Williams was Hollywood's literal bathing beauty and became known as "America's Swimming Sweetheart" with her role in MILLION DOLLAR MERMAID ('52), the MGM...
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- 150K
- Turner Classic Movies
May 6, 2024 · In the late 19th century, a polio-stricken Australian girl, Annette Kellerman (Esther Williams), swims as a means to improve her health.
- 52 min
- 172
- Chesterton Radio
Jan 1, 2000 · The Million Dollar Mermaid: An Autobiography. Paperback – January 1, 2000. by Esther Williams (Author), Digby Diehl (Author) 4.6 293 ratings. See all formats and editions. With refreshing honesty and insight, and plenty of entertaining anecdotes, a legendary film star offers her perspective on life during Hollywood's Golden Age, chronicling ...
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- Esther Williams, Digby Diehl
- $49.07
- Esther Williams
Esther Williams secured her status as "America's Swimming Sweetheart" with Million Dollar Mermaid (1952), a story loosely based on the real-life Australian swimmer Annette Kellerman. The movie, full of romance, music, and dazzling underwater spectacles, remains one of the definitive films of Williams' career.
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A musical romantic drama, this biopic tells the story of influential Australian swimmer Annette Kellerman (Esther Williams), who broke gender barriers while becoming a pioneer of...
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