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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.
Learn about the life and career of Esther Williams, a former swimming champion and Hollywood star of aqua musicals. Find out her birth and death dates, family, spouses, children, trivia, quotes and more.
- August 8, 1921
- June 6, 2013
Apr 27, 2024 · 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.
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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....
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.
- Actress, Writer, Soundtrack
- August 8, 1921
- 4 min
- June 6, 2013
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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 7, 2013 · The web page is an obituary of Esther Williams, who starred in aquatic musicals of the 1940s and 1950s. It covers her life, career, marriages and achievements in swimming and entertainment.
