DOOLEY Observed: Esther Williams is dead at 91

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Thursday, June 6, 2013

Esther Williams is dead at 91

My first GREAT love has died, Esther Williams is gone.

I think I have seen all of her movies, spent hours in theaters watching her, a young boys idol .... I think Thrill of a Romance was the first one I saw in '45, not sure how many times I watched it, but many.

Take Me Out to the Ball Game with Sinatra and Gene Kelly was a good flick. Easy to Love with Vaan Johnson and Tony Martin was another favorite. If Esther Williams was in it, I liked it.

The water, Esther Williams once quipped, was her favorite costar.

With her beauty, sunny personality and background as a champion swimmer, Williams shot to stardom in the 1940s in the "aqua musical," an odd sub-genre of films that became an enormous hit with the moviegoing mainstream, fanned popular interest in synchronized swimming and turned Williams into Hollywood's Million Dollar Mermaid.

The MGM bathing beauty, whose underwater extravaganzas made her one of the most popular actresses of the era, an idol in competitive swimming and a fashion force, died in her sleep early Thursday in Beverly Hills, said her publicist, Harlan Boll. She was 91.