Image / Gertrude "Gussie" Moran

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Title: Gertrude "Gussie" Moran
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1950
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Used in the Exhibit: Play by Play - A Century of L.A. Sports Photography, 1899-1989.
In 1949, Santa Monica's Gertrude "Gussie" Moran walked onto Wimbledon's grass court with ruffled panties peeking out from beneath her short, satin-trimmed dress. Designed by Ted Tinling, the naughty knickers shocked the staid tennis community accustomed to conservative "whites." Moran later played a cameo in the film "Pat and Mike," but her career would forever be defined by her racy outfit.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00048831
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 9280
CARL0000052889
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/17319
Subject: Moran, Gussie
Tennis players--United States
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Tinling, Ted,1910-1990

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