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Lamas moved to Europe with Esther Williams who became his wife. He directed a film both starred in, Magic Fountain , shot in 1961 and never released in the US. He went to Italy for Duel of Fire (1962), and Revenge of the Musketeers (1963).
In Dangerous When Wet (also 1953), Williams worked with three important male co-stars – Tom and Jerry and her future husband Fernando Lamas. During casting, Lamas told Williams he did not want to star in the film with her because he only wanted to be involved in "important pictures".
Williams met Argentine heartthrob Fernando Lamas while filming Dangerous When Wet—but the meeting almost never took place. Lamas was only interested in making important pictures and, in his mind anyway, this was not one. Producers really wanted him, so they rewrote the film to his liking.
The Chandler chapter is getting all the attention, but Williams devotes far more space in her book to Lamas, the Argentine actor who insisted that she bag her career and devote herself entirely...
Jun 6, 2013 · Esther Williams with her third husband, Fernando Lamas in 1960. They starred together in the 1953 film, Dangerous When Wet, in which Williams swam the English Channel. In 1959, when Esther...
Aug 9, 2016 · Fernando sings Two Different Worlds with the kids. Esther and Fernando sing and dance to Small World. From the TV Special, "Esther Williams in Cypress Gardens" which aired in Living Color...
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Sep 2, 1999 · Her third husband, Fernando Lamas, the Latin lover who inspired Billy Crystal's ''You look mahvelous!'' routine, had just died after a relationship of more than 20 years in which, she writes,...
