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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.
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.
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.
Sep 26, 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.
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...
Jun 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. Her death was...
Jun 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. The self-described “Million Dollar Mermaid,” whose wholesome beauty, shapely figure and aquatic skills launched an entire genre of movies — the Technicolor “aqua musicals ...
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.
Jun 6, 2013 · Esther Williams, the swimming champion turned actress who starred in glittering, aquatic musicals of the 1940s and 1950s, has died at the age of 91. She died early on Thursday in her sleep, according to her longtime publicist Harlan Boll. Williams became one of Hollywood's biggest stars, appearing in spectacular swimsuit numbers.
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May 8, 2018 · E sther Williams is best known for her starring roles in MGM's aquatic musical films of the 1940s and 1950s — films which are often credited with introducing synchronized swimming to the world — but she was a pioneer in many other ways as well.
