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    Esther Williams

    American swimmer and actress

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  1. 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.

  2. Esther Williams (born August 8, 1921, Inglewood, California, U.S.—died June 6, 2013, Beverly Hills, California) was an American swimming champion who became one of the most popular and profitable Hollywood movie stars of the 1940s and ’50s.

  3. 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.

  4. Jun 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....

  5. Jun 6, 2013 · Swimmer who found movie fame in a string of MGM musicals. Ronald Bergan. Thu 6 Jun 2013 18.14 EDT. Esther Williams, "Hollywood's Mermaid", who has died aged 91, swam her way through more than a...

  6. Jun 6, 2013 · As news of her death spread Thursday, pinup shots of her circulated on Twitter. Three-time Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer Rowdy Gaines tweeted: “Esther Williams...our first female Michael Phelps...RIP.” USA Synchro, the governing body of U.S. synchronized swimming, also paid tribute.

  7. Jun 6, 2013 · US swimming champion-turned-movie star Esther Williams has died in Los Angeles aged 91. Her spokesman said she died peacefully in her sleep. She had been in declining health due to old age. A...

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