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      Esther Williams

      Esther Williams

      Highest Rated: 100% Neptune's Daughter (1949)

      Lowest Rated: 67% A Guy Named Joe (1943)

      Birthday: Aug 8, 1921

      Birthplace: Inglewood, California, USA

      Like Johnny Weissmuller and Buster Crabbe before her, Esther Williams achieved the seemingly impossible by transforming her skill at competitive swimming into a popular movie career. A star athlete and Olympic hopeful in her teens, she gained her earliest exposure to show business as the female lead in showman Billy Rose's Aquacade. Executives at MGM who saw her swimming abilities and pin-up worthy looks signed her immediately to a contract with the studio. There she starred in a series of musicals built around Williams' extraordinarily graceful water ballets. Audiences ate up the ultra-lightweight fare, making her one of the most popular movie stars of the 1940s and 1950s, though her career declined whenever she decided to pursue roles on dry land. After retiring in the early sixties, she parlayed her association with all things aquatic into lucrative licensing deals for ladies' swimwear and swimming pools. Due to these savvy decisions, she enjoyed her later decades out of spotlight and lived to be 91, with her physically fit background likely contributing to her longevity.

      Highest rated movies

      Neptune's Daughter
      Take Me Out to the Ball Game
      Million Dollar Mermaid
      Ziegfeld Follies
      A Guy Named Joe

      Photos

      EASY TO LOVE, from left: John Bromfield, Esther Williams, Van Johnson, 1953 PAGAN LOVE SONG, Esther Williams, 1950 PAGAN LOVE SONG, Howard Keel, Esther Williams, 1950 DANGEROUS WHEN WET, Tom the cat, Esther Williams, Jerry the mouse, 1953 ON AN ISLAND WITH YOU, Esther Williams, 1948 ON AN ISLAND WITH YOU, Esther Williams, 1948 DANGEROUS WHEN WET, Esther Williams, 1953 DANGEROUS WHEN WET, Denise Darcel, Esther Williams, 1953 THIS TIME FOR KEEPS, Johnnie Johnston, Esther Williams, 1947 THIS TIME FOR KEEPS, Esther Williams, Johnnie Johnston, Sharon McManus, 1947 THIS TIME FOR KEEPS, Esther Williams, 1947 DANGEROUS WHEN WET, Fernando Lamas, Esther Williams, 1953 ON AN ISLAND WITH YOU, standing from left: Jimmy Durante, Xavier Cugat, seated from left: Peter Lawford, Esther Williams, Cyd Charisse, Ricardo Montalban, 1948 ON AN ISLAND WITH YOU, from left: Jimmy Durante, Esther Williams, 1948 THIS TIME FOR KEEPS, Esther Williams, Jimmy Durante, 1947 DANGEROUS WHEN WET, Esther Williams, 1953 DANGEROUS WHEN WET, Esther Williams, Fernando Lamas, 1953 EASY TO LOVE, Van Johnson, Esther Williams, Tony Martin, John Bromfield, 1953 NEPTUNE'S DAUGHTER, Esther Williams, 1949 DANGEROUS WHEN WET, Fernando Lamas, Esther Williams, Denise Darcel, Jack Carson, 1953
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      Filmography

      Movies

      Credit
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Magic Fountain Hyacinth Tower (Character) - 1962
      No Score Yet 0% The Big Show Hillary Allen (Character) - 1961
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Raw Wind in Eden Laura (Character) - 1958
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Unguarded Moment Lois Conway (Character) - 1956
      No Score Yet 56% Jupiter's Darling Amytis (Character) - 1955
      No Score Yet 46% Easy to Love Julie Hallerton (Character) - 1953
      No Score Yet 57% Dangerous When Wet Katie Higgins (Character) - 1953
      86% 69% Million Dollar Mermaid Annette Kellerman (Character) - 1952
      No Score Yet 52% Skirts Ahoy! Whitney Young (Character) - 1952
      No Score Yet 17% Texas Carnival Debbie Telford (Character) - 1951
      No Score Yet 47% Duchess of Idaho Christine Riverton Duncan (Character) - 1950
      No Score Yet 24% Pagan Love Song Mimi Bennett (Character) - 1950
      100% 58% Neptune's Daughter Eve Barrett (Character) - 1949
      95% 70% Take Me Out to the Ball Game K.C. Higgins (Character) - 1949
      No Score Yet 45% On an Island With You Rosalind Rennolds (Character) - 1948
      No Score Yet 44% Fiesta Maria Morales (Character) - 1947
      No Score Yet 23% This Time for Keeps Leonora "Nora" Cambaretti (Character) - 1947
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Hoodlum Saint Kay Lorrison (Character) - 1946
      69% 58% Ziegfeld Follies Specialty (Character) - 1946
      No Score Yet 54% Easy to Wed Connie Allenbury Chandler (Character) - 1946
      No Score Yet 56% Thrill of a Romance Cynthia Glenn (Character) - 1945
      No Score Yet 75% Bathing Beauty Caroline Brooks (Character) - 1944
      67% 73% A Guy Named Joe Ellen Bright (Character) - 1943
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Andy Hardy's Double Life Sheila Brooks (Character) - 1942
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Inflation Mrs. Smith (Character) - 1942

      TV

      Credit
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Zane Grey Theater Unknown (Character) 1960
      No Score Yet No Score Yet What's My Line? Guest 1955 1958-1959