The Dark Torture Behind Hollywood’s Mermaid:How MGM Crushed Esther Williams’ Body for Their Musicals

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To manufacture their lucrative Aqua-musical genre, MGM weaponized athletic champion Esther Williams' endurance by chemically burning her eyes, repeatedly rupturing her eardrums, and nearly drowning her in heavy metallic chainmail. The systemic studio abuse culminated when directors forced her to dive 50 feet into a shallow pool wearing a rigid metal crown, violently shattering three of her cervical vertebrae for a single cinematic shot.