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The Million Dollar Mermaid : an Autobiography by Esther Williams with Digby Diehl is a biography available to read on EtoBox.

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The Author Offers Her Perspective On Life During Hollywood's Golden Age, Chronicling Her Youthful Idealism, Her Training To Be A Star, And Her Own Tempestuous Personal Life. Rarely Has One Of Hollywood's Golden-age Stars Written With Such Genuine Wit And Candor About What It Was Like To Work In The Movie Factories Where Actors Were Pampered And Coddled, Yet Expected To Work Without Complaint For Long, Hard Hours; What It Was Like To Be Young And Sexy And To Be Turned Into An Object Of Desire For Millions Of Moviegoers; What It Was Like To Live In A World Of Almost Total Unreality, Yet Be Expected To Go About The Business Of Finding A Mate And Raising A Family, And Avoiding Personal Scandal At All Costs. Here Is Esther Williams' Witty, Fresh, And Frank Autobiography, All About An Eighteen-year-old Girl Who Reluctantly Answers The Siren Call Of Mgm--at The Time, The Most Powerful And Prestigious Movie Studio In The World--and Who Soon Finds Herself Launched On A Career That Will Last More Than Twenty Years, During Which Time She Will Help To Create A Genre Of Film That Seems Almost Unimaginable Today, Yet Which Still Holds All Its Original Freshness And Fascination, And Who Becomes D

Who reads The Million Dollar Mermaid : an Autobiography?

Author

Esther Williams with Digby Diehl

Publisher

Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780684852843

Category

biography

Subjects

Sports, Literary Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.79 / 5 (1,162 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14