Sullivan, in 1912 in Danbury, Conn., in secret ceremony.Īlthough she maintained a quiet home life, Miss Kellerman found many thrills in her career. Miss Kellerman married her manager, James R. She was arrested in Boston for wearing one of her famous one‐piece suits, which at that time had become populirly known as “Annette Kellermans.”

Keith, who hired her for her first Broadway engagement at Keith and Proctor's Fifth Avenue Theater, where she was a headliner for seven weeks. At Boston's Revere Beach her aquatic act caught the eye of B. Miss Kellerman's first engagement in the United States was in Chicago's White City Amusement Park. 26‐mile race on the Thames and attempted to swim the English Channel twice before she gave up, saying, “I had the endurance, but not the brute strength.” She played the London Hippodrome with a swimming and diving act before she came to the United States in 1907. She declared that her early interest in swimming had come from a childhood tendency toward bowleggedness which forced her to wear braces.įrom her youthful swimming triumphs, she traveled to Britain and the Continent.

By the time she was 15, she had won her first swimming contest. Born in Sydney, Australia, on July 6, 1888, Miss Kellerman learned to swim at 9.

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