Like Johnny Weissmuller and Buster Crabbe before her, Esther Williams achieved the seemingly impossible by... (Learn more)
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"All they ever did for me at MGM was change my leading men and the water in my swimming pool." --Williams, quoted in "Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion"
"Esther Williams was to MGM what Sonja Henie had been to Twentieth Century-Fox--an athletically talented woman who for a virtual decade brought countless filmgoers to theatres. With her ... apple-pie-on-water escapist motion pictures, she racked up some $80 million at the boxoffice between 1944 and 1955."
"Wet she was a star." --Hollywood producer Joe Pasternak
She was named to the Swimming Pool Hall of Fame in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1967.
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