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Annette Kellerman in A Daughter of the Gods: publicity image
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Title:
Annette Kellerman in A Daughter of the Gods: publicity image
NFSA ID
585711
Year
1916
Annette Kellerman is credited with being the first woman to appear nude in a film – in the grand epic A Daughter of the Gods (Herbert Brenon, USA, 1916).
This is a publicity still for the film. The film itself is now considered lost.
When she spoke with Joel Greenberg in 1974 she insisted she wore a ‘very thin pair of tights’ for filming. A long wig was also strategically placed for modesty.
Notes by Beth Taylor
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