Hollywood - 50s-Early 60s

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I mentioned yesterday that I'd come across an account on You tube that had a stash of old TV stuff from the past, so here is one of them. This is a drama from The Wednesday Play, which ran from 1964 to 1970, and was a ground breaking anthology series in it's time. This episode is called The Mayfly and the Frog (1966), and involves no less than a very young Felicity Kendal (yes, her from 70's sitcom The Good Life). I doubt many people know that Felicity actually did a nude scene in her acting career, but she did, and it was in this drama. She played a girl whose scooter is damaged by John Gielgud's Rolls Royce and is so enraged she breaks into his house in order to get compensation for the damage, refusing to go until she does. What involves is a clash of class, but also a developing love between Gielgud's flippant and crusty millionaire and Kendal's bolshy, perky and unmaterialistic biker. It's actually quite an enjoyable watch, but her crucial scene involving Felicity comes at about 41 mins into the drama, when she runs off in the house and Gielgud goes looking for her, only to find that she's stripped off and lying naked in his indoor pond! Nudity was quite rare on TV in the 1960's - the earliest nude was in anthology series Festival in 1963, and that was accidental! - but you get to see Felicity topless lying back, and her bottom when she sits up and swims over towards Gielgud. You also get to see brief breast shots during her talk with him, as Gielgud refuses to leave when she wants to get out, before his servant brings in a towel for her to wrap round. It may not be explicit stuff compared to modern standards, but I'm sure many of you would be interested to see Felicity in the buff as she was starting out in her acting career. Oh, and I've slowed it at the end for those who wished a better look at Miss Kendall. Enjoy.

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Thanks to Lonmol for the lead on this - Dentist on The job 1961

Woman in a bath filming a commercial has the bubbles blown away.
It is a nice quality video. You can see she has something on in image 0012. I think the nipple in pic 0014 is a shadow although she is showing a lot of boob.


A great scene Im sure inspired Benny Hill!

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Originally Posted by Lotfw

Thanks to Lonmol for the lead on this - Dentist on The job 1961

Woman in a bath filming a commercial has the bubbles blown away.
It is a nice quality video. You can see she has something on in image 0012. I think the nipple in pic 0014 is a shadow although she is showing a lot of boob.


A great scene Im sure inspired Benny Hill!

The actress is Shirley Eaton, best known for the early Carry Ons and the gold painted victim in Goldfinger, and still going strong today. Never seen this before, so a nice surprise. Thanks for the upload!

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Early 60s nudity goes more mainstream in US cinema with Monroe, Mansfield and Van Doren. Of course 'something has to give' was never completed and Mansfield was the first to the big screen. I dont think I have ever seen these movies in their unedited versions.


2nd clip Bardot beat them all from the late 50s...

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1960 Private Property - Very beautiful Kate Manx
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0544347/

Two bad guys stalk a woman at a secluded property.
-First they spy on her swimming nude (from a distance so not much seen)
-In the climax one guy has killed the other and is chasing Kate around the house. She climbs into the pool to hide with a brilliant underwater shot of her dress flying up to show off her panties (Many Wetlook fans are born).
-Her husband comes to save her and as she climbs out of the pool her dress has completely fallen to reveal her wet dress and panties (oversized but sexy)

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1963 Scum of the Earth Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis

The start of the 'nudie roughies'. Much better production than the nudie cuties of the late 50s early 60s. Simple enough plot. An innocent girl gets lured into posing for a photographer only to be blackmailed into doing more and more lurid stuff. Not sure how widely these were distributed but must have been ahead of its time with implied **** and whipping and nudity. Funny how the movie starts out not showing much only bried nips here and there but by the end we have three naked women on screen.

-Brief nips in 2 scenes
-Good girl gets tricked into posing nude and her face is caught on film
-Brief bush shown on screen
-3 nude posing (interesting how some of it filmed blurred maybe a self censoring for certain markets)

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Woman gets her shirt ripped off during a sacrifice scene. Boobs on display.
Later a woman skinny dips, sexy but nothing shown. (sorry for the lazy editing in this by me)

Funny thing about this move is it only runs a little over an hour and about 30 minutes in it repeats about 10 minutes of footage. I wonder if that is the way it played in the movies..

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You know how the internet reads your mind (and occ posts) and produces what you were thinking about?

Both Promises Promises and 3 nuts in search of a bolt appeared on a streaming service

Funny... same actor in both, he must have payed a lot of money to get those parts!

Originally Posted by Lotfw

Early 60s nudity goes more mainstream in US cinema with Monroe, Mansfield and Van Doren. Of course 'something has to give' was never completed and Mansfield was the first to the big screen. I dont think I have ever seen these movies in their unedited versions.


2nd clip Bardot beat them all from the late 50s...

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Naked swim scene from this movie. The rest of the movie she is chased around wearing a short swim robe implied naked underneath but we get glimpses of her panties.

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And the number one way to get a woman naked in a 50s-60s movie scene is.... the naked swim!

1961 Hellfire Club - Guy takes a woman's clothes while she swims she struggles nicely to get them back NN
1962 The Magic Sword - Princess swims naked NN


5 other examples in previous posts