About Esther Williams: Esther Jane Williams was an American competitive swimmer and actress.
I gave my eardrums to MGM. And it's true: I really did.
Once I married Fernando, I became invisible.
We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one.
Which Esther Williams do you want to hear about?
The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.
I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought I was too tall, because l was five feet eight and a half, and they were all little bitty things running around in the studio at that tim...
I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you.
Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it.
My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.
Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.
The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.
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.
There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it.
Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.
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.
I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my bathing suit.
