Teenage swimming champion who made her film debut in a 1942 Andy Hardy film, "Andy Hardy's Double Life". Two years later Williams starred in "Bathing Beauty" (1944), the first of a series of effervescent MGM swimming musicals--a curious, if lucrative sub-genre, created especially for her--which continued to pull large, enthusiastic audiences into the mid-1950s. Among a number of bland,…
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