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Hollywood 1912 MN1250 Costume Black shortsleeve bathing unitard. None. Arms. Actions Mack Sennett recruits fashion model Mable Normand from Vitagraph to become the Keystone pinup girl. Looks she she is ready to dive in (1)! Commentary Mable wears an Annette Kellerman diving suit (AK0915). But the fashion model and Water Nymph better watch out: See that very closed up sleeve--almost a short sleeve that Mable's wearing. Some of the new girls arn't so shy about that (RR1350)! And in four years the comedies are rolling in Keystone Girls (KY1650). Source Water Nymph, Keystone film, probably one-reeler,1912. Daniel Blum, A Pictorial History of the SIlent Screen, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1953, p. 31. 1 picture. |
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