Annette Kellerman's love of colour is obvious from her pink outfit in this beautifully executed promotional photograph.

This short excerpt from Venus of the South Seas (James Sullivan, USA, 1924) shows Annette Kellerman performing underwater as both a mermaid and a princess.

A bi-fold pamphlet advertising Australian screenings of Neptune's Daughter (1914).

Scenes from Neptune's Daughter (Herbert Brenon, USA, 1914) give an idea of the more spectacular plot points.

An advertisement for an Australian screening of A Daughter of the Gods (Herbert Brenon, USA, 1916). 

Kellerman’s childhood ballet training helped to hone her precision diving, and ballet was an important of her vaudeville act.

A signed publicity still of Annette Kellerman.

A publicity still of Annette Kellerman from the lost film A Daughter of the Gods (Herbert Brenon, USA, 1916). Kellerman is credited with being the first woman to appear nude in a film.

Films starring Annette Kellerman almost always found a way to showcase her skills as a diver, swimmer and underwater ballet artist.

Variety called Annette Kellerman 'The Diving Venus' in 1909. Kellerman had moved to America in 1907 to perform her vaudeville act.