Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Ime ihe nkiri "Were m gaa egwuregwu bọl" (1949) bụ, dị ka Williams si kwuo n'akwụkwọ o ji dee ndụ ya, ahụmahụ nke "mkpagbu dị ọcha". Egwú oge nke Gene Kelly na Frank Sinatra na-egwuri egwu, ihe odide nwoke abụọ ahụ bụ ndị na-egwu egwuregwu baseball nke K.C. Higgins, ọrụ Williams. O kwuru na Kelly na onye na-ede akwụkwọ Stanley Donen na-eleda ya anya ma na-apụ n'ụzọ ha iji mee njakịrị na mmefu ya. A nabatara ihe nkiri ahụ nke ọma ma bụrụ nnukwu ihe ịga nke ọma azụmahịa, na-emefu $ 3.4 nde na mgbazinye ma bụrụ ihe nkiri nke iri na otu kachasị elu nke afọ. Williams mere "Neptune's Daughter" (nwekwara 1949) n'otu oge ahụ ya na ndị na-eme ihe nkiri Ricardo Montalbán, Red Skelton na Betty Garrett, onye nọkwa na "Were m gaa Ball Game". Na fim ahụ, Williams na Montalbán na-abụ abụ "Baby, It's Cold Outside". Abụ a meriri Academy Award maka Best Original Song na
Onyinye Academy nke 22. Williams na Montalbán bụ ndị e mere atụmatụ na ha ga-abụ abụ "I'd Like to Get You on a) Slow Boat to China", mana ndị na-enyocha ihe nkiri ahụ chere na abụ ahụ bụ nke mmekọahụ (na-akọwa okwu ahụ "nweta" dị ka "nwere") ma nye ha "Baby, Ọ bụ oyi n'èzí". "Neptune's Daughter" ghọrọ ihe nkiri nke 10 kasị baa uru na 1949.