“Truly one of the most beautiful films of the 1950s…a gorgeous Technicolor spectacle complete with multi-colored smoke, leaping water curtains, and a co-ed group of synchronized swimmers that brought ...
In “Swimming Pretty,” Vicki Valosik connects the evolution of an unlikely sport with the century-long struggle of women to be taken seriously in the water. By Jennifer Schuessler Jennifer Schuessler ...
WASHINGTON – Esther Williams, a championship swimmer and lustrous beauty who became one of the world’s most popular movie stars in the 1940s and 1950s by appearing in aquatic musicals featuring ...