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    swimmer, vaudeville star, film actress, and writer, usually known as Annette Kellerman. Kellermann was one of the first women to wear a one-piece bathing...
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    tails to full SFX prostheses costing thousands of dollars. Annette Marie Sarah Kellerman (6 July 1886 – 6 November 1975) was an Australian professional...
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    cumbersome dresses and pantaloon combinations when swimming. In 1907, Annette Kellerman, an Australian swimmer, was arrested on a Boston beach for public...
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  • Kellerman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Adam Kellerman (born 1990), Australian wheelchair tennis player Annette Kellerman (1887–1975)...
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  • biographical drama film about the life of Australian swimming star Annette Kellerman. It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Arthur Hornblow Jr...
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    mysterious beauty if the witch will bring his young son back to life. Annette Kellerman as Anitia (daughter of the gods) William E. Shay as Prince Omar (credited...
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    the acceptance of the style. Kellerman marketed these bathing suits and the style came to be known as "the Annette Kellerman". The one-piece swimsuit became...
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    appeared in her only biographical role, as Australian swimming star Annette Kellerman in Million Dollar Mermaid, which went on to become her nickname while...
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    that was directed by John G. Adolfi and starred Australian swimmer Annette Kellerman. This film is presumed to be lost. As described in the trade magazine...
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    her style of one-piece suits came to be known as "the Annette Kellerman". The Annette Kellerman was considered the most offensive style of swimsuit in...
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    two aquatic musicals that featured Esther Williams (playing swimmer Annette Kellerman as a child in one of them), and as a vulnerable girl being victimized...
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    the first collaboration between actress Annette Kellerman and director Herbert Brenon. It was based on Kellerman's idea of "a water fantasy movie with beautiful...
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    half of the 20th century. In 1907, Australian swimmer and performer Annette Kellerman was arrested on a Boston beach for wearing a form-fitting sleeveless...
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    equipped with on-stage water tanks for the purpose. In 1907, Australian Annette Kellerman popularised the sport when she performed in a glass tank as an underwater...
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  • A Biblical Tragedy is a 1909 American silent short film starring Annette Kellerman. The National Film and Television Archive of the British Film Institute...
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    silent drama film directed by James R. Sullivan starring swimmer Annette Kellerman. It was one of the last films with footage in the Prizma Color process...
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    Mermaid has scenes set in the Hippodrome with Esther Williams playing Annette Kellerman in water ballets, Maria Tallchief as Anna Pavlova and Rod Rogers as...
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    1910. Harper's Bazaar praised the Kellerman swimsuit, writing in June 1920 (vol. 55, no. 6, p. 138) "Annette Kellerman Bathing Attire is distinguished by...
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    spectacular film for IMP studios was his 1914 Neptune’s Daughter. This Annette Kellerman vehicle, at seven-reels in length and filmed in Bermuda, established...
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    Isogawa, fashion designer; design studio located in Marrickville Annette Kellerman, professional swimmer, vaudeville and film star and writer Andy Kent...
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    mainstream star fully nude was A Daughter of the Gods (1916) featuring Annette Kellerman, but enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code brought an...
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    the age of 15 when he and childhood friend Moe Howard joined the Annette Kellerman Diving Girls, a vaudeville act that included four boys. The act ended...
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    Annette Kellerman (left) as the titular mermaid in the 1918 film Queen of the Sea...
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    aquatic-themed biopic loosely based on the life of Australian swimmer Annette Kellerman, portrayed by Esther Williams and aided by LeRoy's "competent direction...
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    Annette Kellerman in nude scene from A Daughter of the Gods (1915)...
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    silent comedy drama film directed by Nate Watt and starring Annette Kellerman. Annette Kellerman as Annabel Cotton Ralph Lewis as James King Cotton Wheeler...
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  • million dollar budget, with the first nude scene by a major star (Annette Kellerman). November 19 – Samuel Goldfish (later renamed Samuel Goldwyn) and...
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    last films using Prizma was Venus of the South Seas (1924), starring Annette Kellerman, where Prizma was used for one reel of a 55-minute film. Venus was...
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    gave concerts. The park hosted burlesque shows, and performers like Annette Kellerman, Bill Cody and Sophie Tucker performed at the park regularly. Daredevil...
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  • Tinged Thriller 'Snap'". IndieWire. Retrieved January 20, 2015. "Annette Kellerman From SXSW 2013: A Chat With SNAP Directors Youssef Delara And Victor...
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