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Beach, California 1917 HH1710 Costume Shoulder cutout short-sleeved maillot skirted pantaloon. With hat, shoes, and socks. TL. Actions Harriet is one of the Max Sennett Bathing Beauties. She sits on a piling by the Pacific Ocean in Southern California (1). A standing pose (2). Commentary Hollywood filmmaker Mack Sennett popularizes the bathing beauty as a public relations technique. And he popularizes the beauty contest as a casting technique. Source Mack Sennett Bathing Beauties, Mack Sennett-Keystone Comedies, 1917. .10 from Don Morgan and Lois Lacy, Leg Art, The Citadel Press, Secaucus, NJ, 1981, p. 80. Dated from Daniel Blum, A Pictorial History of the Silent Screen, which contains another view of this person in this costume. .20 from Daniel Blum, A Pictorial History of the SIlent Screen, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1953, p. 133. 2 pictures. |
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