Esther Williams

Esther Williams retired from acting in the early 1960s. Booke succumbed to cancer in 1994. Her brother, Stanton Williams, also had a brief acting career during the 1920s before his death while still a teenager. Sanders, personnel manager at Archie's workplace, Pendergast Tool and Die. Her third husband was actor Fernando Lamas. Booke had a recurring role in Norman Lear's groundbreaking sitcom All in the Family as Mr. She was romantically linked with Jeff Chandler, and has been married four times. Booke had parts in noteworthy 1960s films such as Black Like Me and A Fine Madness before transitioning to focus primarily on television parts in the 1970s and voice acting in the 1980s and 1990s.

Her love life was a source of media interest. Fluent in five languages, Booke attended Columbia and Yale Universities and served in the Korean War as a counterintelligence officer. In her autobiography, Williams details several other occasions in which she nearly drowned shooting her oxygen-defying stunts. Sorrell Booke (born January 4, 1930 in Buffalo, New York; died February 11, 1994 in Sherman Oaks, California) was an American actor best known for his role as the heavyset, corrupt politician Jefferson Davis "Boss" Hogg in the television show The Dukes of Hazzard. Her many hours spent submerged resulted in her rupturing her eardrums numerous times. 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).

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. 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.