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  Claire Anderson was a Mack Sennett bathing beauty and a silent screen actress who quit show business. She was born Clara Mathes on May 8, 1895 in Detroit, Michigan. Her parents, Richard and Frieda Matthes, were born in Germany. At the age of nineteen Claire married Harry Anderson, an auto dealer. The day after their wedding the couple moved to Hollywood, California. She made her film debut in the 1914 short At Dawn with Wallace Reed. Over the next year she appeared in more than a dozen shorts including God Is Love and The Craven (she was sometimes billed as Cora Anderson). Mack Sennett hired her to be one of his first bathing beauties in 1915. She was five feet, five inches tall and 132 pounds. While filming The Lion And A Girl in 1916 she bravely got into a cage with an actual lion. The movie was a hit and she was offered a contract at Keystone for $675 a week. She was given starring roles in the dramas The Grey Parasol, The Price Of Applause, and Crown Jewels. After leaving Key...

  SENNETT BATHING BEAUTIES Sennett Bathing Beauties was a bevy of women performing in bathing costumes assembled by film producer  Mack Sennett . They appeared in comedy short subjects, in promotional material, and in promotional events such as  Venice Beach  beauty contests from  c.  1915 to 1928. Beginning in 1915, [1]  the original trio assembled by Sennett consisted of Evelyn Lynn, Cecile Evans, and  Marie Prevost   [2]  Hundreds more would follow; many remained nameless. 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...