She was the biggest name at the biggest studio in Hollywood!
She was MGM’s Golden Girl!
Under contract for nearly two decades, it was her movie spectaculars that kept the great MGM “dream factory” solvent. And she made twenty-six of them! She was the girl of your dreams, the girl next door, the girl who had everything. She was the most brilliant of Hollywood icons. She IS… ESTHER WILLIAMS!
She was a national swim champion at seventeen! She set world speed records!
She was the star of Billy Rose’s internationally famous World’s Fair “Aquacade” with Johnny Weissmueller, Hollywood’s “Tarzan”. Yet her fame couldn’t keep Johnny from tearing off his loin cloth faster than he swam to his Olympic records!
She brought the talent and determination of a champion to the pools and the stages of MGM for all the world’s audiences to see. As exciting as the MGM public relations team made her appear to an adoring public, her private life was intensely more chilling.
She was raped at thirteen!
Her first husband threatened her with a knife if she made movies!
Her second husband stole every penny she had!
Her third husband convinced her she was washed up!
Yet, she was not to be a victim of these onerous men.
AS A CHAMPION, AS A WOMAN, SHE PREVAILED!
THE MILLION DOLLAR MERMAID is the story of a woman fighting to succeed in a world where the odds were stacked against her. She had courage when courage was a rare commodity. The story of a winner who was willing to pay the price to cross that finish line first!