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DMF KeyNotes – Annette Kellermann Video Transcript

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Daniel’s Music Foundation presents

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DMF KeyNotes

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A Celebration of Individuals with Disabilities

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This week features

[Image – Sketch of Annette Kellermann]

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Annette Kellermann, born 1887-1975

[Image –Annette Kellermann, standing in a long one-piece swimsuit.]

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She was an international swim and film star who had the skeletal disorder, rickets, at a

young age.

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Kellermann wore painful steel braces to stabilize her legs weakened by her disorder.

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At age 6, her parents enrolled her in swimming classes to further strengthen her legs.

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By age 13, Kellermann no longer had challenges walking.

[Image - Young Annette Kellermann holding up an item and smiling]

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At 15, she began her competitive career as a champion swimmer.

[Image - Annette Kellermann, swimming.]

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In 1905, she became one of the first women to attempt to swim the English Channel.

[Image - Annette Kellermann, standing in a one-piece swimsuit and in a dive position]

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In 1907, she popularized synchronized swimming by performing in the first water ballet

at the New York Hippodrome.

[Images (2) Left - Photo of Annette Kellermann diving into water; Right - Photo of

Annette Kellermann posing underwater]

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Kellermann promoted swimming as a public health issue.

[Image - Annette Kellermann laying on her stomach in a full one-piece swimsuit]

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Not only did women’s woolen swimsuits restrict movement; when wet they became

heavy weights.

[Image - Photo of a young girl wearing a wool swimsuit.]

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She advocated for the women's one-piece swimsuit, defying the code of modesty in the

early 1900s.

[Image - Photo of Annette Kellerman, standing on a beach with both arms lifted up]

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The popularity of her one-piece suits resulted in her line of women's swimwear.

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The "Kellermanns", as they were known, were the first step towards modern women's

swimwear.

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In 1909, Kellermann started a career in Hollywood. Her films had aquatic themes.

[Image - Photo of Movie poster, titled “Lee Bradford Corporation presents, Annette

Kellerman in Venus of the South Seas”]

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By the 1920s, she was a writer and lecturer who was a pioneer in modern health and

exercise.

[Image - Photo of Annette Kellermann, smiling]

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"My early physical misfortune has turned out to be the greatest blessing.... Without it I

should have missed the grim struggle upward..."

[Image - Photo of Annette Kellermann, laying on rocks and dressed in a mermaid

costume.]

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Thank you, Annette Kellermann!

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You can thank her too by sharing her incredible story today!

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Photo Credits (in order):

● 4th Slide - Sketch of Annette Kellermann: Library of Congress

● 5th Slide - Photo of Annette Kellermann: Library of Congress

● 9th Slide - Photo of Annette Kellermann: Wednesdays Women

● 10th Slide - Photo of Annette Kellermann: Getty Images

● 11th Slide - Photo of Annette Kellermann: Berkley Books

● 12th Slide (left) - Photo of Annette Kellermann: State Library of NSW

● 12th Slide (right) - Photo of Annette Kellermann: National Film and Sound