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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.
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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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.
Through troubled marriages, cross-dressing lovers, financial bankruptcy, she shares the ups and downs of her extraordinary career in The Million Dollar Mermaid, a wildly entertaining behind-the-scenes account of one of Tinseltown's classic dream factories.
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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For the hundreds of thousands of who have seen and loved Esther Williams' movies, comes a wonderfully witty, fresh, and frank autobiography, all about an eighteen-year-old...
The Million Dollar Mermaid. Esther Williams, Digby Diehl. Harcourt, 2000 - Biography & Autobiography - 416 pages. During Hollywood's heyday, big studios battled over the next box-office...
