Esther Williams
Esther Williams
Esther Jane Williamswas an American competitive swimmer and actress...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth8 August 1921
CityInglewood, CA
CountryUnited States of America
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No one had ever done a swimming movie before so we just made it up as we went along. I ad-libbed all my own underwater movements.
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I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies.
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I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime.
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I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers
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Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.
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Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.
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I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.
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Fernando certainly lived up to his advance billing: God knows he'd had enough practice to have earned a black belt in the bedroom arts.
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My mother took refuge in her spirituality while my poor father was barely able to bring home enough money to keep food on the table.
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The animus is symbolized by male figures appearing in a woman's dreams and fantasies, as a husband, son, father, lover, Prince Charming.
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She had gone from famous to infamous to notorious and was now regarded as something of a menace to polite society.
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My first event was the 100-meter freestyle, the top event of the meet, competing against the best in the nation, over 100 swimmers.
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I felt a powerful attraction to Victor Mature. I was married, but all the passion and most of the love in that marriage were gone, or going.
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With two little boys in diapers, I had to keep it simple if I were going to have a life at all.