Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1949)

chologist. She has no faith in fortune tellers but she goes to them for amusement. She doesn’t play bridge. She was fired from her first job as a model, because she “didn’t have a good figure.” She recently met the man who fired her and he offered her his right arm if she would model bathing suits for him. She is an expert horsewoman, is very intuitive and requires eight to nine hours of sleep. She painted and papered her bedroom with Tony Sarg wallpaper, leaving the trademark visible so that “everybody would see it was expensive.” She wears a light pancake make-up and lipstick for street and she has two brothers and two sisters, all born in Salt Lake City. She made her “debut” in a first grade operetta as a “rose” and another member of the cast was a little girl called Deanna Durbin. She is a good conversationalist, very fond of Roquefort cheese, and wishes her husband “was a better salesman of some of the songs he writes.” She listens to all commentators with the desire to know every side and if her first-born is a boy, he will be named Stanton Benjamin, after her oldest brother who died at sixteen; but if it’s a girl she will name her Tenny, simply because she likes its sound. She has an incurable weakness for antique and junk shops. She seldom wears hats and when she does they are always small. Her distaste for cigars has induced husband Ben to give them up until, at least, the baby comes. SHE doesn’t like birds in cages and opines that “modem time-saving devices have left little time for individual happiness.” She uses no mascara. She likes flying and as a little girl she knew almost nothing of dolls and fairy tales because she was essentially a tomboy. She would like one day to own a small boat. She is flexible, impulsive, and likes her coffee black. She has no temper or temperament. She has never been in Europe and thinks the house she was bom in the loveliest she has ever seen. She invariably eats a hefty lunch of meat and vegetables. She has burst her eardrums four times due to swimming and has a bad sinus condition which increases the pressure. She eats very little bread. She plays no tennis, likes wearing flowers and ribbons in her hair, and she studied both dancing and singing so that she could match steps with Gene Kelly and harmony with Frank Sinatra in “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.” She has no patience with detail and has adopted a French war orphan, an elevenyear-old girl, . providing a monthly sum stipulated by the Foster Parents Plan. Her Fan Club members send this child presents instead of sending them to Esther. She loves the comics, learns dialogue easily and between pictures gives two swimming lessons a week to handicapped children. She is excellent in spelling. She seldom wears high heels. She prefers small intimate parties and her mother once said to her, “Never be afraid of anything. You can do it because it’s not your strength or talent, but something stronger than you. If you’re ever afraid of anything, just remember that you don’t have to do it alone. If you believe, it will be done for you.” Esther Williams learned that lesson early and it has become the theme of her life. She loves to cook but she never puts things back where they belong and consequently, when she has finished, the kitchen “looks as if a cyclone had hit it.” She has an uncomplicated mind, is at that lormtit book or a sweetheart of a figure Everywhere, people are talking about this girl with the “Formfit look.” She’s the symbol of a new loveliness which Formfit has brought to millions of women who never dreamed they coidd look so figure-perfect. Yes, no matter what your figure faults, Life Bra by Formfit corrects them faultlessly . ■ . gives you that high, wide and beautifully rounded natural look. That’s because of the exclusive Formfit way it’s tailored to lift— mold — correct— hold, all at one time. Make “that Formfit look” your own today — at any of the better stores. Life Bras from $1.25 THE FORMFIT COMPANY CHICAGO, NEW YORK MORE WOMEN WEAR FORMFIT THAN ANY OTHER MAKE