ESTHER WILLIAMS - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED - HFSID 42793
Price: $140.00
ESTHER WILLIAMS
Esther Williams signs an autograph note.
Autograph Note Signed: "Thank you/Sincerely/Esther Williams Gage",
4½x1¾. Esther Williams (1921-2013) was a world-renowned swimming
champion when she was spotted by an MGM talent scout in an aquacade. Hoping
that their new discovery would surpass the popularity of 20th Century-Fox's
skating queen Sonja Henie, MGM began grooming Williams for stardom completely
refashioning her third film, the modest 1944 Red Skelton comedy Mister
Bride, into the Technicolor super spectacular Bathing Beauty. For
the next decade she starred in one musical comedy after another, warbling the
Oscar-winning tune "Baby It's Cold Outside" in Neptune's Daughter
(1949) and trading steps with Gene Kelly in Take Me Out to the Ballgame
(1949). As her popularity soared--she was among the top ten box office stars
in 1949 and 1950--MGM went out of its way to make her swimming sequences more
complex and elaborate with each new picture. Esther Williams and Ben Gage were
married from 1945 until their divorce in 1959. Fine
condition.
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