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Annette Kellerman came closest to these classical proportions, and she quipped in response: "But only from the neck down.". In A Daughter of the Gods, too, Kellerman managed to break barriers. It became the first feature film to break the million-dollar mark in production costs — and Annette Kellerman became the first star to perform.
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Annette Kellerman stars as Anitia in the silent film A Daughter of the Gods (Herbert Brenon, USA, 1916).. Regarded as big on spectacle but flimsy on plot by critics at the time, the million dollar film shot in Jamaica was popular with cinemagoers and cemented Kellerman's role as a silent film star.
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A Daughter of the Gods: Directed by Herbert Brenon. With Annette Kellerman, William E. Shay, Hal De Forest, Marcelle Hontabat. A sultan agrees to help a wicked witch destroy a mysterious young lady if the witch will bring his young son back from the dead with magic.
A Daughter of the Gods (1916)
A Daughter of the Gods is a 1916 film starring swimming sensation Annette Kellerman. [1] The film is notable for being one of the first films to have a major actress in a nude scene. The scene, which featured the actress under a waterfall with her long hair covering most of her body, led to mild controversy.
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A ten minute condensed reconstruction of the lost epic film, 'A Daughter of the Gods' (1916) starring Annette Kellermann directed by Herbert Brenon and prod.
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A Daughter of the Gods is a film directed by Herbert Brenon with Annette Kellerman, Hal De Forest, Marcelle Hontabat, William E. Shay.. Year: 1916. Original title: A Daughter of the Gods.. Annette Kellerman, Hal De Forest, Marcelle Hontabat, William E. Shay, Ricca Allen, Violet Horner, Jane Lee, Stuart Holmes, Katherine Lee, Henrietta.
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A Daughter of the Gods. 3h 1916. Overview; Synopsis; Credits; Film Details; Trivia; Notes; Cast & Crew. Read More. Herbert Brenon Director. Annette Kellerman Anitia . William E. Shay. prince to life. Nearby, the Arab Sheik plots to seize the Sultan's lands by placing his beautiful but treacherous daughter Zarrah in the palace harem..
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Banking on the reputation of swimming sensation Annette Kellerman, whom years earlier, gain international fame for advocating the right of women to wear a one-piece bathing suit, as well, trying to be the first women to swim the English Channel; Fox Film Corporation greenlight, 'A Daughter of the Gods' the first million-dollar film production.
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A Daughter of the Gods is a silent film notorious for featuring Annette Kellerman in the first ever complete nude scene by a major star, which occurred during a waterfall sequence. It was filmed by Fox Pictures in Kingston, Jamaica where huge sets were constructed, and directed by Herbert Brenon.An original score was composed for the movie, which was played by an orchestra during each.
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Annette Kellerman is regarded as the first star - male or female - to appear nude in a mainstream Hollywood production.. When A Daughter of the Gods came to Kellerman's native Australia in 1917.
A Daughter of the Gods (1916)
Annette Kellerman, c. 1916. Australian cinema-goers in 1917 were promised 'the most gorgeous spectacle of the age' should they part with the couple of shillings required to see a film called A Daughter of the Gods. Made in 1916, it was the first film to have a production budget of one million dollars, supposedly employing a cast of 20,000.
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A Daughter of the Gods was a 1916 American silent fantasy drama film written and directed by Herbert Brenon. The film was controversial because of the sequences of what was regarded as superfluous nudity by the character Anitia, played by Australian swimming star Annette Kellermann. The scene is regarded as the first complete nude scene by a major star, which occurred during a waterfall.
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A Daughter of the Gods was a 1916 American silent fantasy drama film written and directed by Herbert Brenon.The film was controversial because of the sequences of what was regarded as superfluous nudity by the character Anitia, played by Australian swimming star Annette Kellermann.The scene is regarded as the first complete nude scene by a major star, which occurred during a waterfall sequence.
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Annette Kellerman's entrée into silent film began in the middle of an acrimonious battle to control the terms of her vaudeville career.. In Kellerman's next film, A Daughter of the Gods (1916), reportedly the first feature film to cost over a million dollars, she again became an uncredited cowriter of the script in addition to costume.
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An advertisement for an Australian screening of A Daughter of the Gods (Herbert Brenon, USA, 1916). The three-hour epic featuring Annette Kellerman screened at the St George's Theatre in Yarraville, Melbourne. Though publicity stills and documents like this one have survived, the film is now considered lost. Notes by Beth Taylor.