was turned into a film,
Million Dollar Mermaid,
starring swimmer-turned-
actress Esther Williams. In
1974 Kellerman was inducted
into the International
Swimming Hall of Fame, the
same year of her death at the
age of eighty-nine.
Kellerman’s 1905 swim in
the Thames from Putney
wasn’t an isolated event in
terms of women’s swimming,
although it’s usually treated
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