bribrim1a blog: Esther Williams: 1921-2013

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Esther Williams: 1921-2013

MGM's Million Dollar Mermaid has died at the age if 91. Esther Williams was Hollywood's most unique star who swam her way through a series of Technicolor spectacles including Dangerous When Wet, Easy to Love, and Jupiter's Darling. She was a teenage swimming champion who won a place on the 1940 US Olympic swimming team. But when World War II intervened and the '40 Olympics were cancelled, she swam in Billy Rose's Aquacade where she was discovered by a movie scout. She was signed by MGM and quickly became a major star of lighthearted romances with ever-more elaborate swimming sequences. She was married four times, most famously to Fernando Lamas. She was divorced twice, widowed by Lamas and is survived by Edward Bell, a French literature professor 10 years her junior to whom she was married in 1986. She is also survived by a son, a daughter, and three step-sons including actor Lorenzo Lamas. She was my mother's favorite movie star and there will never be another like her. Here she is in the appropriately named Easy to Love:
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