Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shortly before her death at age 91 in 2013, Esther Williams revisited some of her old MGM musicals. "I'm watching this beautiful ...

(Reuters) - Former Hollywood star Esther Williams died on Thursday at age 91. The following are facts about her life: * As a young swimmer, Williams set a world record for the 100-meter freestyle and ...

LOS ANGELES - Esther Williams, the swimming champion turned actress who starred in glittering and aquatic Technicolor musicals of the 1940s and 1950s, has died. She was 91. Williams died early ...

“We just made it up as we went along. I ad-libbed all my own underwater movements. . . It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in ...

“Truly one of the most beautiful films of the 1950s…a gorgeous Technicolor spectacle complete with multi-colored smoke, leaping water curtains, and a co-ed group of synchronized swimmers that brought ...

Four years ago, Don Pruess, onetime underwear salesman, made an unannounced business call at the home of Cinemermaid Esther Williams near Santa Monica. His proposition: a partnership to mass-produce ...

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 ...