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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.
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....
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...
Jun 6, 2013 · CNN —. Esther Williams, whose success as a competitive swimmer propelled her to stardom on the silver screen in the 1940s and 1950s, died Thursday in California, her spokesman said. Williams ...
Jun 6, 2013 · American swimming champion-turned-movie star Esther Williams died today. She was 91, and passed away this morning in her sleep, according to her family and publicist. Williams grew up outside...
Jun 7, 2013 · June 6, 2013 / 8:57 PM EDT / AP. 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 ...
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.