ESTHER WILLIAMS - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 153929
Price: $300.00
ESTHER WILLIAMS
Small black and white publicity photograph of Esther Williams holding
her hair up.
Photograph signed: "My best wishes/Esther Williams". B/w, 4x6.
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. Light creases, touching "E" of signature,
most not visible head-on. Otherwise, fine condition.
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