Josephine McKim
Olympic medalist, world-record swimmer, and film actress.
Josephine Eveline McKim was an American swimmer who won three Olympic medals, including a gold in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay in 1932. She set five world records in freestyle events and later worked as a body double and actress in films such as Tarzan and His Mate and Bride of Frankenstein. McKim also performed on Broadway from 1938 to 1942.
Quick Facts
- Full name
- Josephine Eveline McKim
- Strokes
- Freestyle
- Club
- Carnegie Library Athletic Club
- Born
- 4 January 1910
- Birthplace
- Oil City, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- Died
- 10 December 1992
- Place of death
- Woodstock, New York, U.S.
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