who kissed her repeatedly and called her a ‘mermaid.’ Esther made her big screen debut opposite Mickey Rooney in 1942’s Andy Hardy’s Double Life. The Esther Williams Nobody Knew Two years ...

Esther Williams was a competitive swimmer and actress ... routines — often underwater — in films like Million Dollar Mermaid (1952) and Dangerous When Wet (1953). We don't know exactly how ...

The story of Esther Williams is that of an improbable encounter. That of the glamorous Hollywood of the 1940s with a swimming champion. A meeting that gave birth to the most kitsch and flamboyant ...

Inspired by the life and career of Annette Kellerman, 1952’s Million Dollar Mermaid is perhaps the most visually dazzling film of Esther Williams’s career. Herself known as ‘The Million ...

Million Dollar Mermaid tells the story of Australian ... a perfect vehicle decades later to showcase the star quality of Esther Williams in the 1950s, and Kellerman's moniker was picked up by ...

Story of Annette Kellerman, the international swimming vaudeville and silent screen star whose life story inspired the MGM classic Million Dollar Mermaid starring Esther Williams, which featured ...