Esther Williams
Gender: Female
Born: 8th August 1921 (currently 90 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: The 100 Greatest Musicals, MGM: When the Lion Roars, The Big Party, Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Special
Movies: Bathing Beauty, Million Dollar Mermaid, That's Entertainment III, Ziegfeld Follies, A Guy Named Joe, This Time for Keeps, Callaway Went Thataway, Duchess of Idaho, Neptune's Daughter, Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Dangerous When Wet, Jupiter's Darling, Thrill of a Romance, Pagan Love Song, On an Island with You, Till the Clouds Roll By, Fiesta, Easy to Love, Easy to Wed, Texas Carnival, That's Entertainment!, Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer, Andy Hardy's Double Life, Texas Carnival, The Hoodlum Saint, Skirts Ahoy!
Esther Jane Williams (born August 8, 1921) although some sources cite 1922 is a retired American competitive swimmer and MGM movie star.
Williams set multiple national and regional swimming records in her late teens as part of the Los Angeles Athletic Club swim team. Unable to compete in the 1940 Summer Olympics because of the outbreak of World War II, Williams joined Billy Rose's Aquacade, where she took on the role vacated by Eleanor Holm after the show's move from New York City to San Francisco. There, she spent five months swimming alongside Olympic swimmer and Tarzan star, Johnny Weissmuller.
It was at the Aquacade that Williams caught the attention of MGM scouts. After appearing in several small roles, alongside Mickey Rooney in an Andy Hardy film, and future five time co-star Van Johnson in A Guy Named Joe, Williams made a series of films in the 1940s and early 1950s known as "aquamusicals", which featured elaborate performances with synchronized swimming and diving.
From 1945 to 1949, Williams had at least one film listed among the 20 highest grossing films of the year. In 1952, Williams appeared in her only biographical role, as Australian swimming star Annette Kellerman
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