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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

In “Swimming Pretty,” Vicki Valosik connects the evolution of an unlikely sport with the century-long struggle of women to be taken seriously in the water. By Jennifer Schuessler Jennifer Schuessler ...

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 ...

“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 ...