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Spines of the Finwomen
1. Water Creatures
Some of you will remember the movie Creature From the Black Lagoon. The movie was made before nine years before I was born, in 1954. I loved this movie so much I used to cry hysterically at the end when the creature is killed. I didn’t give a shit about the woman or anyone killed by the creature; like all idiots who only care about themselves, they shot at the creature as a first encounter. The movie has all of my favorite elements in it: geology, fossil evidence from the Devonian period, a postulated link between land and sea creatures, an ichthyologist, and the best monster I’d ever seen in my life: a piscine amphibious humanoid. The original movie was black and white, and the creature was called “Gill-man.”
I never, saw the creature as a man. I saw the creature as a finwoman. By the time I saw the movie I was ten years old and already a veteran competitive swimmer.
Mildred Elizabeth Fulvia di Rossi, otherwise known as Milicent or “Mil” Patrick, created the creature but was eliminated from the credits. A jealous idiot named Bud Westmore stole her credit and ended her job at Universal Studios. She died in 1988. Her credits have since been restored. It took 2019 book by Mallory O’Meara, The Lady From the Black Lagoon, to resuscitate her value from the depths of the Hollywood.
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