Esther Williams

5 wins & 2 nominations. See more awards »

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Take Me Out to the Ball Game K.C. Higgins

(1949)

Neptune's Daughter Eve Barrett

(1949)

On an Island with You Rosalind Rennolds

(1948)

Million Dollar Mermaid Annette Kellerman

(1952)

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Actress (33 credits)

1963 Magic Fountain
Hyacinth Tower

1961 The Big Show
Hillary Allen

1960 Zane Grey Theater (TV Series)
Sarah Harmon

- The Black Wagon (1960) ... Sarah Harmon

1960 The Donna Reed Show (TV Series)
Molly

- The Career Woman (1960) ... Molly

1958 Raw Wind in Eden
Laura

1957 Lux Video Theatre (TV Series)
Vicki

- The Armed Venus (1957) ... Vicki

1956 The Unguarded Moment
Lois Conway

1955 The Tender Trap
Actress in 'Easy to Love' - Movie on TV (uncredited)

1955 Jupiter's Darling
Amytis

1953 Easy to Love
Julie Hallerton

1953 Dangerous When Wet
Katie Higgins

1952 Million Dollar Mermaid
Annette Kellerman

1952 Skirts Ahoy!
Whitney Young

1951 Callaway Went Thataway
Esther Williams (uncredited)

1951 Texas Carnival
Debbie Telford

1950 Pagan Love Song
Mimi Bennett

1950 Duchess of Idaho
Christine Riverton Duncan

1949 Neptune's Daughter
Eve Barrett

1949 Take Me Out to the Ball Game
K.C. Higgins

1948 On an Island with You
Rosalind Rennolds

1947 This Time for Keeps
Leonora 'Nora' Cambaretti

1947 Fiesta
Maria Morales

1946 Till the Clouds Roll By
Esther Williams - Signing Autographs (uncredited)

1946 Easy to Wed
Connie Allenbury Chandler

1946 The Hoodlum Saint
Kay Lorrison

1945 Ziegfeld Follies
Esther Williams ('A Water Ballet')

1945 Thrill of a Romance
Cynthia Glenn

1944 Bathing Beauty
Caroline Brooks

1943 Sucker Bait (Documentary short)
Secretary - Spy

1943 A Guy Named Joe
Ellen Bright

1942 Andy Hardy's Double Life
Sheila Brooks

1942 Inflation (Short)
Mary Smith

1942 Personalities (Short)
Sheila Brooks (screen test footage) (uncredited)

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Soundtrack (15 credits)

2018-2019 Good Morning Britain (TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes)

- Episode dated 4 November 2019 (2019) ... (performer: "Baby, It's Cold Outside" - uncredited)

- Episode dated 5 December 2018 (2018) ... (performer: "Baby, It's Cold Outside" - uncredited)

2019 Tucker Carlson Tonight (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)

- Episode dated 31 October 2019 (2019) ... (performer: "Baby, It's Cold Outside")

2018 The Bolt Report (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)

- Episode #8.179 (2018) ... (performer: "Baby, It's Cold Outside")

1994 That's Entertainment! III (Documentary) (performer: "Ten Percent Off" (1947) - uncredited)

1976 That's Entertainment, Part II (Documentary) (performer: "Water Ski Ballet" (1953) - uncredited)

1958 Raw Wind in Eden (performer: "THE MAGIC TOUCH")

1955 Jupiter's Darling (performer: "I Had A Dream" - uncredited)

1953 Easy to Love (performer: "That's What a Rainy Day Is For")

1953 Dangerous When Wet (performer: "I Got Out Of Bed on the Right Side", "Ain't Nature Grand" - uncredited)

1952 Skirts Ahoy! ("The Navy Waltz", uncredited) / (performer: "Row, Row, Row Your Boat", "What Good Is a Gal? (Without a Guy?)", "What Makes a Wave?", "We Will Fight" - uncredited)

1950 Pagan Love Song ("The House of Singing Bamboo", "Singing in the Sun", uncredited) / (performer: "Pagan Love Song", "The Sea of the Moon" - uncredited)

1949 Neptune's Daughter (performer: "Baby, It's Cold Outside")

1949 Take Me Out to the Ball Game ("Take Me Out to the Ball Game") / (performer: "Strictly U.S.A." - uncredited)

1948 On an Island with You ("All Aboard", uncredited)

1946 Easy to Wed (performer: "Acercate más" (Come Closer To Me), "Bonecu de Pixe")

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Writer (1 credit)

1954 Athena (uncredited)

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Thanks (1 credit)

2013 Edición Especial Coleccionista (TV Series) (in memory of - 1 episode)

- Phineas y Ferb: A traves de la 2ª Dimensión (2013) ... (in memory of)

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Self (58 credits)

2004 Hollywood Legenden (TV Movie documentary)
Self

2003 The 100 Greatest Musicals (TV Movie documentary)
Self

2001 Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration (TV Special)
Self

2000 Parkinson (TV Series)
Self

- Episode dated 11 March 2000 (2000) ... Self

1999 The Rosie O'Donnell Show (TV Series)
Self

- Episode dated 28 September 1999 (1999) ... Self

- Episode dated 21 January 1999 (1999) ... Self

1998 Glorious Technicolor (TV Movie documentary)
Self

1995-1998 Biography (TV Series documentary)
Self

- Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century (1998) ... Self

- Mickey Rooney: Hollywood's Little Giant (1995) ... Self

1998 Busby Berkeley: Going Through the Roof (TV Movie documentary)
Self

1996 Private Screenings (TV Series)
Self

- Esther Williams (1996) ... Self

1996 Pebble Mill at One (TV Series)

- Episode dated 13 March 1996 (1996)

1994 That's Entertainment III: Behind the Screen (Video documentary)
Self

1994 That's Entertainment! III (Documentary)
Self - Co-Host / Narrator

1994 Golden Globes 50th Anniversary Celebration (TV Movie)
Self

1993 Querida Concha (TV Series)
Self

- Episode dated 25 April 1993 (1993) ... Self

1993 This Is Your Life (TV Series documentary)
Self - Filmed tribute

- Ann Miller (1993) ... Self - Filmed tribute

1993 Vicki! (TV Series)
Self

- Episode dated 11 January 1993 (1993) ... Self

1992 MGM: When the Lion Roars (TV Mini-Series documentary)
Self

- The Lion in Winter (1992) ... Self

1991 Stars and Stripes: Hollywood and World War II (TV Movie documentary)
Self

1991 One on One with John Tesh (TV Series)
Self

- Episode #1.4 (1991) ... Self

1991 Burt Reynolds' Conversation With (TV Series)
Self

- Episode dated 29 August 1991 (1991) ... Self

1991 The 48th Annual Golden Globe Awards 1991 (TV Special)
Self - Presenter

1990 The Geraldo Rivera Show (TV Series)
Self

- Episode dated 14 November 1990 (1990) ... Self

1990 The 35th Annual Thalians Gala (TV Special)
Self

1990 7th Annual American Cinema Awards (TV Special)
Self

1989 Más estrellas que en el cielo (TV Series documentary)
Self

- Episode #1.15 (1989) ... Self

1988 Télé Caroline (TV Series)
Self

- Episode dated 21 June 1988 (1988) ... Self

1987 Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood (TV Special documentary)
Self

1986 The 58th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special)
Self - Performer

1985 All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (TV Special)
Self (uncredited)

1985 Night of 100 Stars II (TV Special)
Self

1985 That's Dancing! (Documentary)
Archival footage from 'Bathing Beauty'

1984 Hollywood '84 (TV Mini-Series documentary)
Self

- Episode #1.2 (1984) ... Self

1984 Hour Magazine (TV Series)
Self

- Episode dated 10 July 1984 (1984) ... Self

- Episode dated 9 July 1984 (1984) ... Self

1977 AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Bette Davis (TV Special documentary)
Self (uncredited)

1968-1973 The Mike Douglas Show (TV Series)
Self - Actress

- Episode #12.164 (1973) ... Self - Actress

- Episode #7.194 (1968) ... Self - Actress

1961 The Bob Hope Show (TV Series)
Self - Guest

- The Bob Hope Buick Sports Awards Show (1961) ... Self - Guest

1961 The Annual National Sports Awards (TV Special)
Self - Presenter

1961 The National Sports Awards (TV Special)
Self - Presenter

1955-1960 Person to Person (TV Series documentary)
Self

- Episode #8.3 (1960) ... Self

- Episode #2.24 (1955) ... Self

1960 Esther Williams at Cypress Gardens (TV Movie)
Self

1959 The Big Party (TV Series)
Self

- Premiere Show - Rock Hudson host (1959) ... Self

1955-1959 What's My Line? (TV Series)
Self - Mystery Guest / Self - Panelist

- Esther Williams (3) (1959) ... Self - Mystery Guest

- Esther Williams (2) (1958) ... Self - Mystery Guest

- Duke Snider & Robert Cummings (1958) ... Self - Panelist

- Esther Williams (1955) ... Self - Mystery Guest

1959 This Is Your Life (TV Series)
Self

- Janet Blair (1959) ... Self

1959 I've Got a Secret (TV Series)
Self - Panelist

- Episode dated 25 February 1959 (1959) ... Self - Panelist

1957-1959 The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (TV Series)
Self - Swimmer / Self (Award Presenter)

- Esther Williams, Vic Damone, Jennie Smith, The Mary Dwight Swimmers (1959) ... Self - Swimmer

- Esther Williams, Eydie Gorme, Jackie Cooper, Stan Freberg, The Four Lads (1957) ... Self - Swimmer

- Tennessee Ernie Ford, Peggy Lee, Johnny Mercer, Dinah Shore, Esther Williams, The Collins Kids (1957) ... Self (Award Presenter)

1955-1958 Omnibus (TV Series)
Self - Presenter (segment) / Self (segment "Advice to Bathers")

- The Submariners (1958) ... Self - Presenter (segment)

- Advice to Bathers (1955) ... Self (segment "Advice to Bathers")

1958 The Garry Moore Show (TV Series)
Self

- Buster Keaton, Jose Greco, Hedda Hopper, Rocky Graziano (1958) ... Self

1954-1958 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV Series)
Self / Self - Guest Host

- Johnny Mathis, Esther Williams, Jacques Tati, Janet Blair, Shecky Greene, Lisa Kirk (1958) ... Self - Guest Host

- Episode #11.41 (1958) ... Self

- Esther Williams, Hermione Gingold, Alice Pearce, Arthur Worsley, Olivette Miller & Gibson, Ganjou Brothers & Juanita, cast of the Broadway musical "The Saint of Bleecker Street" (1955) ... Self

- MGM's 30th Anniversary Tribute (1954) ... Self

1958 You Asked for It (TV Series)
Self

- Episode dated 6 February 1958 (1958) ... Self

1957 The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (TV Series)
Self

- Christmas Show: guest stars: Roy Rogers, Esther Williams, John Raitt, Dizzy Dean, Sons of the Pioneers (1957) ... Self

1957 Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (TV Series)
Self

- Dana Andrews, Esther Williams, Georgie Kaye (1957) ... Self

1956 Film Fanfare (TV Series)
Self

- Episode #1.23 (1956) ... Self

1956 The Esther Williams Aqua Spectacle (TV Special)
Self - Host

1955-1956 The Milton Berle Show (TV Series)
Self - Actress / Self

- Episode #8.10 (1956) ... Self - Actress

- Episode #8.1 (1955) ... Self

1956 The Jimmy Durante Show (TV Series)
Self

- Episode #2.16 (1956) ... Self

1955 1955 Motion Picture Theatre Celebration (Short documentary)
Self (uncredited)

1954 The 26th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special)
Self - Presenter

1950 Screen Actors (Documentary short)
Self (uncredited)

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Archive footage (33 credits)

The Orson Bean Show (Documentary) (post-production)
Self

2020 Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies (Documentary)
Self

2020 Cane Fire (Documentary)
Mimi Bennett in Pagan Love Song

2017 The Fabulous Allan Carr (Documentary)
Self

2015 Listen to Me Marlon (Documentary)
Self (uncredited)

2014 The Oscars (TV Special)
Self - Actress (In Memoriam)

2014 The EE British Academy Film Awards (TV Special)
Self - Memorial Tribute

2014 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (TV Special)
Self - In Memoriam

2011 Imprescindibles (TV Series)
Self

- Terenci (2011) ... Self

2010 Rock Hudson: Dark and Handsome Stranger (Documentary)
Self (uncredited)

2009 Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1940s: Stars, Stripes and Singing (Video documentary)
Self

2008 Tough Baby: Torch Song (Video documentary short)
Self

2007 The Pursuit of Excellence (TV Series documentary)

- Synchronized Swimming (2007)

2006 Voces (TV Series documentary)
Eve Barrett

- The Bronze Screen (2006) ... Eve Barrett

2004 Haunts of the Black Masseur (TV Movie documentary)
Self

2004 Love Find Andy Hardy Intro (Video documentary short)
Self

2003 The Milton Berle Show: The Lost Elvis (Video)
Self

2002 The Original Mermaid (Documentary)
Self

2002 American Masters (TV Series documentary)
Self

- Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer (2002) ... Self

1995 Inside the Dream Factory (TV Movie documentary)
Self

1982 Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter (TV Movie documentary)
Actress - 'Bathing Beauty' (uncredited)

1976 That's Entertainment, Part II (Documentary)
Clip from 'Easy to Love'

1973 That's Entertainment! (Documentary)
Clips from 'Bathing Beauty' & 'Million Dollar Mermaid' etc.

1972 Hollywood: The Dream Factory (TV Movie documentary)
Self - film clips (uncredited)

1971 The Dick Cavett Show (TV Series)
Self

- Gov. Ronald Reagan/Bob Newhart/James Wong Howe (1971) ... Self

1958 Andy Hardy Comes Home
Sheila Brooks (in Clip from "Andy Hardy's Double Life")

1956 MGM Parade (TV Series documentary)
Self - Water Ballerina in 'Ziegfeld Follies'

- Episode #1.20 (1956) ... Self - Water Ballerina in 'Ziegfeld Follies'

1956 Screen Snapshots: Hollywood, City of Stars (Documentary short)
Self (uncredited)

1951 The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Story (Documentary)

1950 The Costume Designer (Short)
Self

1949 Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership (Documentary short)
Self (uncredited)

1945 Parade of Aquatic Champions (Short)
Esther Williams

1944 Twenty Years After (Short)

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(10/25/53) Radio: Appeared (as "Whitney Young") on a "Lux Radio Theatre" broadcast of "Skirts Ahoy". See more »

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2 Print Biographies | 6 Articles | 6 Pictorials | 12 Magazine Cover Photos | See more »

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Height:

5' 8½" (1.74 m)

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Personal Quote:

MGM made money off me, but they never understood the art form. Not until the fifth picture did I even get a choreographer. See more »

Trivia:

She and teammate Virginia Hopkins were to take part in the 1940 Olympics, which was canceled due to World War II. See more »

Trademark:

Being an acclaimed swimming champion, her films usually had elaborate dance sequences involving swimming.

Nickname:

America's Mermaid

Star Sign:

Leo

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