Thelma Hill (born Thelma Floy Hillerman; December 12, 1906 â€" May 11,
1938) was an American silent screen comedian and one of the Sennett
Bathing Beauties.Born Thelma Floy Hillerman in Emporia, Kansas, she
was one of the few Sennett Bathing Beauties to make it into featured
roles. Hill was widely known as the "mah jongg bathing girl" because
of the mah jongg bathing suit she was photographed in.When she was a
child her parents divorced and her father died. Thelma and her mother
moved to California, where they opened a cafe down the road from the
Sennett studios. She was discovered by Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle when she
was serving him and dropped soup in his lap. Arbuckle introduced her
to Mack Sennett who made her one of his bathing beauties. In a 1924
article Sennett declared she was the "ideal bathing beauty of her
time".. The petite actress was just five feet tall and weighed only
100 pounds.
1938) was an American silent screen comedian and one of the Sennett
Bathing Beauties.Born Thelma Floy Hillerman in Emporia, Kansas, she
was one of the few Sennett Bathing Beauties to make it into featured
roles. Hill was widely known as the "mah jongg bathing girl" because
of the mah jongg bathing suit she was photographed in.When she was a
child her parents divorced and her father died. Thelma and her mother
moved to California, where they opened a cafe down the road from the
Sennett studios. She was discovered by Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle when she
was serving him and dropped soup in his lap. Arbuckle introduced her
to Mack Sennett who made her one of his bathing beauties. In a 1924
article Sennett declared she was the "ideal bathing beauty of her
time".. The petite actress was just five feet tall and weighed only
100 pounds.
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