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Esther Williams

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Esther Williams

A former teen swim champion who proved herself an adept comedienne and turned film star, Esther Williams (with the help of MGM) invented the swimming musical and starred in a series of these wet spectacles throughout the 1940s and '50s, creating and filling her own special niche in Hollywood for over a decade.

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Memorable Quotations:

  • "If I put my arms around your neck, I would choke you." --as Rosalind Reynolds in ON AN ISLAND WITH YOU (1948)
  • "Just call me fathead." --as K.C. Higgins in TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME (1949).
  • "You're very poetic for a short stop." --as K.C. Higgins in TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME (1949).
  • "I'm glad to see the grapevine hasn't withered." --as Whitney Young in SKIRTS AHOY! (1952).
  • "You're the one who makes me do things like this." --as Whitney Young in SKIRTS AHOY! (1952).

Music Clips:

  • Click here"I Got out of Bed on the Right Side" (clip) from DANGEROUS WHEN WET (1953) sung with William Demarest, Charlotte Greenwood and Company (a .MP3 file courtesy Rhino Records).

(For help opening any of the multimedia files, visit the plug-ins page.)

Further Reading:

  • The Million Dollar Mermaid by Esther Williams (Simon & Schuster, 1999).
  • The Golden Girls of MGM by Jane Ellen Wayne (New York: Carroll & Graf, 2003).

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