ESTHER WILLIAMS - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 251947
Price: $280.00
ESTHER WILLIAMS
Black and white publicity photograph of Esther Williams wearing a
white shirt.
Photograph signed: "Esther Williams". B/w, 8x10. Esther
Williams (1921-2013) was a world-renowned swimming champion when she was
spotted by an MGM talent scout in an aquacade. Hoping that their new discovery
would surpass the popularity of 20th Century-Fox's skating queen Sonja Henie,
MGM began grooming Williams for stardom completely refashioning her third film,
the modest 1944 Red Skelton comedy Mister Bride, into the Technicolor
super spectacular Bathing Beauty. For the next decade she starred in
one musical comedy after another, warbling the Oscar-winning tune "Baby It's
Cold Outside" in Neptune's Daughter (1949) and trading steps with
Gene Kelly in Take Me Out to the Ballgame (1949). As her popularity
soared--she was among the top ten box office stars in 1949 and 1950--MGM went
out of its way to make her swimming sequences more complex and elaborate with
each new picture. Mounting tape remnant on verso shows through faintly at
blank upper margin. Fine condition.
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