Screen Legend Esther Williams Dies at 91

Friday, 07 June 2013 | by Pat's Picks

The LA Times has a front-page obituary for Hollywood icon Esther Williams in this morning’s paper. Williams, who was known for her “aqua musicals,” died yesterday at the age of 91. The paper harkens back to a sentence it wrote in 1984 to describe the screen legend’s pull on the American public: “Esther Williams did more for a bathing suit than John Wayne ever did for a cowboy hat, Tom Mix for a horse, Errol Flynn for a sword, Ronald Colman for a pith helmet or Cary Grant for a tuxedo.”

SOURCE: LA Times