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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.
Apr 27, 2024 · Esther Williams, American swimming champion who became one of the most popular and profitable Hollywood movie stars of the 1940s and ’50s. Her movies, including Bathing Beauty and Million Dollar Mermaid, featured elaborately choreographed swimming, diving, and waterskiing displays and underwater ballet sequences.
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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.
- August 8, 1921
- June 6, 2013
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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.
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- August 8, 1921
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- June 6, 2013
June 6, 2013. 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 7, 2013 · Esther Williams, the swimming champion turned actress who starred in glittering and aquatic Technicolor musicals of the 1940s and 1950s, has died. She was 91. Williams died early Thursday in...
Jun 6, 2013 · Swimmer and movie star Esther Williams dead at 91. By BOB THOMAS and JOCELYN NOVECK. Updated 4:05 PM PDT, June 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.
