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Daily Trivia

Why didn't Esther compete in the 1940 Olympics?

on Oct 31, 2025

MGM film bathing beauty and box-office darling Esther Williams arrived on the Hawaiian island Kauai to film the musical, Pagan Love Song,(1950) co-starring Howard Keel, Rita Moreno, and Philip Costa. Overall, this film was fairly routine, but in it, Williams performed her first salt water swimming ballet. Williams was a great swimming athlete who had qualified for three events in the 1940 Olympics, only to have them cancelled by World War II.

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