Swimming star and actress Esther Williams was Hollywood's literal bathing beauty and became known as "America's Swimming Sweetheart" with her role in MILLION DOLLAR MERMAID ('52), the MGM spectacle loosely based on the Australian swimmer Annette Kellerman and choreographed by Busby Berkeley.

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