American - Actress | August 8, 1921 - June 6, 2013
Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid.
Esther Williams
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When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again.
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The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.
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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.
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Which Esther Williams do you want to hear about?
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I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime.
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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.
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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 time.
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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.
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Critics established a snobbery toward me.
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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.
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I gave my eardrums to MGM. And it's true: I really did.
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