Sennett Bathing Beauties

Beginning in 1915,[1] the original trio assembled by Sennett consisted of Evelyn Lynn, Cecile Evans, and Marie Prevost.

Not individually featured or named, many of these young women ascended to significant careers of their own, including Juanita Hansen, Claire Anderson, Marie Prevost, Phyllis Haver, Myrtle Lind and Carole Lombard.

Other notable[3] Bathing Beauties include: Marion Aye, Alice Day, Polly Moran, Madeline Hurlock, Vera Reynolds, Mary Thurman, Thelma Hill, Thelma Parr, Marvel Rea, Harriet Hammond, Evelyn Francisco, Vera Steadman, Josephine Cogdell,[4] Elinor Field, and Ora Carew.

[6] Sennett explained his inspiration for the Bathing Beauties: One morning as I went through the Times, in my tub, I noticed a three-column picture on Page One of a pretty girl who had been involved in a minor traffic accident.

The young lady's knees were showing.In the 1920s, Sennett's Bathing Beauties remained popular enough to provoke imitators such as the Christie Studios' Bathing Beauties (counting Raquel Torres and Laura La Plante as alumnae[8]) and Fox Film Corporation's "Sunshine Girls" (counting Janet Gaynor as an alumna).