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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Annette Kellerman"”.
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Acting Alone: Solo Female Performers, Their American Audiences, and Embodiment
… female entertainers--Olive Logan, Annie Oakley, Annette Kellerman, Cornelia Otis Skinner, and Gypsy Rose Lee--who wrote and performed solo works at some point from the 1880s through the 1950s. Whether adopting the guise of a monologist, dancer, swimmer, or stripper--these women risked scrutiny …
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Blue Vaudeville: Sex, Morals, and the Mass-Marketing of Amusement, 1895-1915
… female performers, such as Eva Tanguay and Annette Kellerman, who used their body and their sexuality to craft a successful mass entertainment product.</p>
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Only Underwater Can We Breathe: The Book of Mermaid Contemplations
… a home for male fantasies. Swimming film stars Annette Kellermann and Esther Williams, the Legendary Weeki Wachee mermaids, and my grandmother were objectified and silenced by men and by their own internalized patriarchal codes. Weaving film history, personal contemplation, and popular mermaid …