The Mack Sennett Bathing Beauties ~1917~WWI Pinups~

Mack Sennett bathing beauties were pin-up girls for the soldiers of the First World War. Gloria Swanson, Marie Prevost, Phyllis Haver, Juanita Hansen, Claire Anderson, and Mary Thurman were Sennett bathing girls at this time. Comedy pioneer Mack Sennett was best known for his rollicking and outrageous slapstick comedies, which often included the bumbling antics of his Keystone cops and such vaudeville comedy stunts as the pie-in-the-face gag. Particularly popular were Sennett’s “bathing beauties,“ a grou