Like Johnny Weissmuller and Buster Crabbe before her, Esther Williams achieved the seemingly impossible by... (Learn more)
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Esther Williams’s Milestones
| Impressario Billy Rose co-starred her with Johnny Weissmuller in his San Francisco Aquacade; quit to marry first husband | |
| Left college and worked as stock clerk and part-time model at I Magin store | |
| Retired from the industry in the early 1960s | |
| Won several local swimming championships; after earning the Pacific Coast Championship was signed for the 1940 Olympics (which were ultimately cancelled when WWII began) | |
| 1941 | Signed MGM contract |
| 1942 | Film acting debut in "Andy Hardy's Double Life" |
| 1942 | First came to attention in her first swimming film, "Bathing Beauty" |
| 1949 - 1950 | Twice made the annual exhibitors' poll of top ten boxoffice stars; placed eighth both years |
| 1955 | Ended MGM contract (date approximate) |
| 1955 | Last major aqua-musical, "Jupiter's Darling" |
| 1957 | Made TV debut in "Lux Video Theatre's The Armed Venus" |
| 1958 | Last film for three years, "Raw Wind in Eden" |
| 1961 | Made one-shot return to films to play a leading role in "The Big Show" |
| 1994 | Was one of the hosts of the musical compilation documentary "That's Entertainment III" |
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