Williams, Esther Jane

Esther Jane Williams was born on August 8, 1921 in the city of Inglewood, California, U.S.. As a teenager she was active in swimming and even became a champion at the U.S. swim 100 meters freestyle. It could well wait a brilliant sports career, but changed the Second World War. It abolished the Olympic Games of 1940 in Tokyo, where Williams was supposed to participate. And yet the beautiful swimmer is not left idle. In the early 40's Esther Williams (Esther Williams) took part in the water show 'Aquacade', which took place at the annual world fairs, on the beaches of San Francisco. These shows have had an extraordinary success with audiences and rumors of them came to Hollywood. Manual film companies 'MGM' decided that Esther Williams good prospects, and created specially for her a kind of subgenre, which got the name 'Aqua musicals', ie 'Water musicals'. Their peculiarity was that the actress is not danced as the others, on solid ground, and in the water. Often staying for a long time without access to air. The audience was so impressed by the numbers of water that gave Williams the nickname - Mermaid America. True, her acting skills such delight did not cause. And although she was not trained in acting, movies with Esther Williams almost gave birth to a new sport - 'synchronized swimming'. Not to mention the fact that her paintings to date dictate fashion in swimsuits. The most famous of them was the film 'Ziegfeld Follies (Madness Zigfilda)' (1946). Overall, Esther Williams (Esther Williams) played about 20 of these roles and even won a few non-competitive awards - in the awards 'Golden Globe' and 'Golden Apple'.

. But the greater interest of the public caused no career Esther, and her personal life, she vividly described in his autobiography, 'Mermaid a million dollars'.

. Esther Williams has been married four times
. For the first time she got married in college, for a classmate, Leonard Kovner. Their marriage lasted from 1940 to 1944 The year. Second marriage, to actor Benom Gage, continued from 1945 to the 1959th year and uevnchalsya birth of three children, Benjamin, Kimball and Susan. Third, the most scandalous and most happy marriage, with the Argentine actor Fernando Lamas, lasted from 1969, and until the death of a spouse in the 1982nd year.

. Since 1994 until the present day, the actress lives with her fourth husband, Edward Bell, in Beverly Hills, California.