Low-Budget Mermaid

Friendly reminder that in the 1975 Little Mermaid film, based on Han Christian Andersen’s story, the mermaid was called Marina and had blonde hair. The Disney adaptation deviates from the original in several ways.

First, the original story is quite somber, with the little mermaid failing to win the love of the prince’s love as in the Disney version. In contrast, the pair in this photo are merely posing suggestively, and this mermaid appears to have won her prince’s affection.