Shortly before her death at age 91 in 2013, Esther Williams revisited some of her old MGM musicals. “I’m watching this beautiful young girl,” she told her son Ben Gage. “She’s so pretty and charming.

© Credit Ana Carballosa. Courtesy of AE Ops, LLC and Mohari Media US, LLC. Director Bill Condon‘s vision for adapting “Kiss of the Spider Woman” for the big ...