Picture No | 11768590 |
Date | 1912 |
Description | Annette Kellerman |
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Annette Marie Sarah Kellerman (1886 - 1975) - Australian swimmer, film star, and writer. One of the first women to wear a one-piece bathing costume, causing a minor scandal at the time. Pictured in a photograph that demonstrates the claim by 'a number of well-known American doctors' that she possessed, 'the most perfect female figure in the world.'
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Source | Unattributed photograph in 'The Tatler', 6 March 1928 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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