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Sandra Dee Conservative Bikini

House interior, America
1959 SD5901

Costume
   Narrow strap bra and nombril bikini. (Narrow straps but a big top and bottom.)

   TML. N-1.

Actions
   Sandra Dee anticipates the beach bikini movie in Gidget (1). As an American youth star she makes a careful step over the line and shows just an inch of belly below navel.

Commentary
   Dee begins her career in the late 1950s, with films including Until They Sail (1957), The Wild and Innocent (1957), and The Summer Place (1959). Compare this waistline to GL5910-20.

Source
   Scanned from Celebrity Sleuth, Mavety Media Group, Broadcast Communications Inc., Box 10531, Rockville, MD 20850, Vol. 6, No. 7, 1993. 1 picture.
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