Name: Rose-Marie DEMELY
Pseudo: Sacha0606
Member of several creative teams

Kit:By Newlifedreams and Cali Designs: I SEA YOU - PICTURE: Extraction with Fluid Mask 3

The Temperance Movement considered the exploitation of under-dressed women too risqu for the general population. However, in Sennett films, frequent exhibition of "forbidden fruit" and moderately erotic antics were commonplace. The Sennett Studio received hundreds of letters protesting his exploitation of women but high art and moral correctness were not his goals. Acting roles were loosely scripted and improvisation was encouraged. Bathing beauties were to look lovely, cultivate sex appeal, and steal the scene.Bathing beauties were poised in suggestive stances, strutting, dancing, flapping, swimming, or hamming it up in front of the camera.Some of Sennett's bathing beauties gained notice as leading ladies: Gloria Swanson, Carol Lombard, and Mabel Normand. The test of time has removed the varnish of eroticism and controversy surrounding Sennett's beauties. Today the audience is free to view Basement Beauties as an innocent display of playful young women dressed in eccentric yet wonderful bathing suits.