Category: Beauty

Heather Graham wasn’t in the original cast of Twin Peaks, but she joined the team in the later episodes of season two. He character arc was insignificant, but the very fact that David Lynch cast her further demonstrates his uncanny talent for hiring beautiful women who are willing to shed their clothing.

She did have a couple of sexy non-nude performances before she appeared in Twin Peaks.

Heather was in no hurry to get naked. The second season of Twin Peaks aired in 1991, and Heather didn’t get naked before her epic full-frontal performance in 1997’s Boogie Nights, when she was already 27.

She may have started late, but her nudity career went on and on. She did some excellent nudity in The Last Son when she was in her 50s, and it wasn’t gimmicky “mom nudity.” She had a sex scene with Machine Gun Kelly, who is 20 years younger.

She has had an impressive record in our annual polls:

• In 1997, her performance in Boogie Nights earned her the top spot. Her vote total was more than three times as high as the second place finisher.
• She duplicated her first-place finish in 2002 with her appearance in Killing Me Softly.
• In 2007 she finished 7th for her performance in Adrift in Manhattan

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Also in this series:

Part 1 covers Madchen Amick;

Part 2 covers Sherilyn Fenn

Part 3 covers Sheryl Lee

Part 4 covers Lara Flynn Boyle

Part 5 covers Joan Chen

Part 7 covers Anne Gaybis

Part 8 covers Moira Kelly

Incidentally, when I post these collections to the Fun House, there are film clips for all of the entries.

This represents the final entry from the cast of the original Twin Peaks. There are plenty more to cover from the feature film and the 2017 revival.

Great request. Lisa was the original Wednesday Addams in the black-and-white TV version of The Addams Family (“Why, thank you, Thing.”), and she did some excellent nudity in this film.

Unfortunately, the available sources are crap. I did find a DVD, but the quality is poor. It’s obviously just a VHS transfer. Such a shame! This could be a terrific nude scene if anyone could find a pristine print and transfer it to Blu-Ray. There’s even a brief “open coochie” shot when she climbs into the hot tub.

Alas, this is all we have now:

More info and pics here.

From Defoe

Bretheau

Tereszkiewicz

As often happens with a new series, the best nudity was in episode one.

There was not a lot of nudity in mainstream productions in 1964. To my knowledge, Fonda was the only major star who showed any goodies.

There was nudity in grindhouse and drive-in films, and there was substantial nudity in the Pawnbroker, but if you begin and end the discussion with big-name mainstream Hollywood stars, Jane was out there in her own universe, working for a director who became her husband.

Some movie trivia for you cinephiles: what does Circle of Love have in common with Eyes Wide Shut and Becket?

Once again Brainscan takes a deep dive into a forgotten chapter in the history of film nudity: the grindhouse era. Brainscan alone created all the commentary and collages, as well as the myriad of film clips that accompany this article in the members’ version of the Fun House.

The Grindhouse Years, part 1: The Immoral Mr. Teas

1959

Grindhouse movie houses sprung up spontaneously in many cities at the same time and the movies they showed were very cheap local productions.  No one can say for sure which was the first place or the first movie.  But for my money, the first important exploitation movie in what would become the grindhouse genre was Russ Meyer’s The Immoral Mr. Teas.

Mr. Teas had many of the features that would dominate grindhouse for several years, including voice over instead of dialogue, a story that made precious little sense and  exposure that was pretty damn limited until….

It is the until that matters here, because Meyer knew from a SCOTUS  ruling in the mid-1950’s that the courts would side with him if censors attempted to ban or cut a ie about nudism or a movie that had educational value. So, for about 45 minutes of its run time, Mr. Teas gives us not so much to sink our teeth into except Danielle Dawn posing topless for a photographer,

The key word here is topless, but Ms. Dawn manages to keep her vitals hidden most of the time.

The only other significant exposure was a two-second clip of the topless torso of June Wilkinson.

Okay, fine, for the longest time in the movie, Mr. Teas goes from place to place and encounters attractive women at his dentist’s office, and an office and a coffee shop. They are played by

and in every case the women display acres of cleavage, not much more. Well, that is not strictly true because we get to see Ms. Wesley’s naked rumpus and Ms. Peter’s ample bosom, as Mr. Teas lets his imagination get the best of him. Still, if the movie had ended at the 50 minute mark, it would have the same level of exposure as others in the grindhouse genre at the time.

But then the movie shifts gears. Mr. Teas falls asleep and imagines the waitress, the secretary and the dental hygienist are nudists. With that little trick Meyer could protect the movie from censors. And as Mr. Teas gazes at the nudists, the voice over gives us a rich education in the history of exploration and the biology of reptiles. No kidding. This is deliberate, to be sure, and it is a sometimes-hilarious parody of other attempts to get naked bodies past the censors by throwing in some odd bits of educational material. So we have the nudists and we have the education – who could possibly justify cutting out any of it?

In Mr. Teas’ dream, the three women loll around and play around naked in a variety of scenes for an aggregate of 13 minutes.

All three women get significant time in the buff, but true to the form he would display for more a decade, Mr. Meyer spends an inordinate amount of time with the camera on the bustiest, blondest of them – that would be Ms. Ann Peters. It turned out to be her only exposure on film but she made the most of the time and the talent given to her.

Mr. Teas, in a bright red shirt and a Panama hat, skulks around in bushes and through tall grass and up trees, but at no point do the three women see him. You have to conclude  Meyer’s got the title wrong – the protagonist is not the Immoral Mr. Teas but the Invisible Mr. Teas.

Like I said, the dude is invisible to naked women, which I am going to say is a super power worth having if you get a choice in these matters.One online source says Althea Currier plays the stripper. And Mr. Skin has Monica Liljistrand playing the psychiatrist, instead of Mikki France. As luck would have it, Ms. Currier and Ms. Liljistrand appear together in a movie entitled Heavenly Bodies! Take a look and see what you think.

To be continued!

If you enjoy Brainscan’s work, here are the other series that can be found on Other Crap:

The Films of Harry Novak

Part 1, The Sixties, can be found here.

Part 2, Hicksploitation, is here.

Part 3, The Seventies, is here.

Part 4, The Models in Print (and in his films), is here

The Early Years of Film Nudity

Part 1: 1932. Peak Pre-Code Talkies.

Part 2: 1929-1934. The Other Pre-Code Talkies.

Part 3: 1927. The Swan Song of the Silents.

Part 4: 1900-1926. The Silent Era.

Part 5: 1935-1951. The Dry Years.

Part 6: 1952-1959. Europe to the Rescue

The same articles, with the added bonus of all of Brainscan’s film clips, can be found in the members’s version of the Fun House, along with the many thousands of other collages, clips and commentaries that Brainscan has created in the past two decades. (And his contributions represent only a tiny fraction of the content in the back issues, since the Fun House has been updated every day, seven days a week, for the past 27 years except for one month in 2023.)

She was playing to the camera

Previous nip-slips: (1, 2)

She has about a dozen nude scenes and spends some ten minutes naked. Considering the sheer quantity of the nudity, her fame, her beauty and her pedigree (she’s Andie MacDowell’s daughter), we have to take this seriously as a contender for nude scene of the year.

I think there are three factors that hold it back:

1) No clear lower frontal shot
2) Much of the nudity dimly lit.
2) No maidenhead. Our voters often prefer a nudity virgin, but this isn’t her first nude performance, and it’s not even her best. Margaret has made a good run at the top nude scene award twice before, with two finishes in the top five.

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History lesson:

Margaret’s performance in Donnybrook was #3 among our top nude scenes of 2019.

And her performance in Love Me Like You Hate Me was voted into the #5 slot in the top nude scenes of 2020.

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