Career
She also swam in the first heat of 4×100-meter freestyle relay, but was replaced by Eleanor Garatti in the final. During her career McKim set five world records in various freestyle events. McKim served as the body double for Maureen O"Sullivan in a deleted nude underwater scene from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer"s adventure film, Tarzan and His Mate (1934), which has since been restored to home video releases.
She also had a bit part in Universal"s Bride of Frankenstein (1935) as a mermaid, one of Doctor Pretorius" "miniaturized" people.
This role was reprised in Columbia"s The King Steps Out. She also appeared with her Olympic teammate Buster Crabbe in "Lady Be Careful" (1936).
Both attended the University of Southern California. Later she had a stage career on Broadway (1938 to 1942) appearing in "Family Portrait" (1939) with Judith Anderson and Tom Ewell at the Morosco Theater and a Lee Strasburg production "Dance Night" (1938) among several others
Her husband, Gordon Chalmers, was also on the United States. Olympic swim team of 1932, and went on to become a swimming coach at Lafayette College and Lehigh University in Pennsylvania and, after World World War II, the United States. Military Academy at West Point.
Later he became athletic director at Iowa State and Indiana State. They had two daughters, Margot and Donna, a collegiate gymnast. Her older sister, Musa McKim Guston, was the spouse of painter Philip Guston and a painter in her own right, as well as a published poet.
McKim was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an "Honor Swimmer" in 1991.