Shortly before her death at age 91 in 2013, Esther Williams revisited some of her old MGM musicals. “I’m watching this beautiful young girl,” she told her son Ben Gage. “She’s so pretty and charming.
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 ...