Esther Williams

Esther Williams retired from acting in the early 1960s. He currently resides in California. Her brother, Stanton Williams, also had a brief acting career during the 1920s before his death while still a teenager. In the 2001 film Ali, Burton played Martin Luther King, Jr. Her third husband was actor Fernando Lamas. LeVar got his start in television from 1976-1979, as the host of Rebop. She was romantically linked with Jeff Chandler, and has been married four times. He also played the voice of a character named Kwame in the cartoon series Captain Planet and the Planeteers (1990-1993) and The New Adventures of Captain Planet (1993-1996).

Her love life was a source of media interest. He is also the host of the long-running children's television show Reading Rainbow (1983- Current) on PBS, which extols the virtues of literacy. In her autobiography, Williams details several other occasions in which she nearly drowned shooting her oxygen-defying stunts. He has directed numerous episodes of the series, as well as episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise. Her many hours spent submerged resulted in her rupturing her eardrums numerous times. He later played the role of Lieutenant Commander Geordi LaForge in the Star Trek: The Next Generation television series and the series' movies. She broke her neck filming a 50-foot dive off a tower during a climactic musical number for the 1952 release Million Dollar Mermaid which landed her in a body cast for six months (she subsequently recovered though she still suffers headaches as a result of the accident). Burton is a graduate of University of Southern California's School of Theatre.

Many of her films, such as Million Dollar Mermaid and Jupiter's Darling, contained elaborately staged swimming scenes, obtained not without physical cost to the performer. Levardis Robert Martyn Burton Jr. (born February 16, 1957 in Landstuhl, Germany), known as LeVar Burton, is an African American actor, director, and producer who first came to prominence playing Kunta Kinte in the 1977 award winning television miniseries Roots, based on the novel by Alex Haley. Williams instead went to Hollywood, and quickly became a popular star of the 1940s and 1950s. She qualified to be in the United States swim team in the 1940 Olympics, but the games were canceled due to World War II. Esther Williams was born in Inglewood, California, and was enthusistic about swimming from her youth.

Esther Jane Williams (born 8 August 1922) is a United States swimmer and movie star. Williams, Esther, The Million Dollar Mermaid: An Autobiography, Simon & Schuster, 1999.