When I set out to capture the life story of tennis legend Alice Marble, more than one person asked, “Alice who?” Such unfamiliarity would have been unheard of in her prime, during the Great Depression, when she was omnipresent in newspapers and the public followed her ups and downs with the same ardor that they followed Seabiscuit.
Marble’s athletic career reached its apex in July 1939, when she took Wimbledon in a clean sweep, then achieved same stellar accomplishment at the U.S. Open two months later, making her the first woman to do so.
