Category: Beauty

Sydney won the Best Nude Scene competition last year, and like a true champion, she is not resting on her laurels.

Ted Williams was hitting .400 coming into the last day of the 1941 season. Many people thought he should be sitting out the final doubleheader, which was irrelevant to the standings, rather than risking his chance to finish at that sacred mark, because he was slumping. He had batted only .268 in the previous 13 games as he watched 13 points erode from his seasonal average. The Thumper wanted no part of sitting it out. He played both games and went 6-for-8, becoming the very last man to hit .400 in a full season.

Sydney ain’t gonna sit it out either. She is the Ted Williams of tits.

Sally Kellerman passed away about a week ago and I missed it.

The Variety writers did their usual very thorough job when doing a show-biz obituary, and we all know about her beautiful and sexy speaking voice, so let’s discuss things nobody knows about her.

In 1971, when she was already an established star from her work in M*A*S*H, she and her then-partner collaborated on an experimental film called Venus, which was apparently such a dud that it screened in only a few arthouse theaters, including only one theater in LA for one night. Fortunately, the LA Times had a hard-working critic named Kevin Thomas who made a point of going there that night to review it. There was no internet or cable TV in that era, and the film was too trippy for broadcast TV to be interested, so it disappeared into film oblivion. To my knowledge, there is no extant copy. We would not know about it at all, if not for three things: (1) the LA Times reviewed it, as mentioned; (2) Kellerman mentioned it several times in her autobiography because there was footage that she was not expecting (she had not known the camera was rolling); (3) Playboy included a single frame from it in one of those “Sex Stars of 19XX” recaps.

While we are on the subject of her most obscure performances, I can name two more from her pre-M*A*S*H days:

She was one of the Many Loves of Dobie Gillis in the early 60s. (Fully dressed, of course.)

And she took a bath on screen (nothing showing) in an utterly obscure Canadian series called Seaway, which ran for only a single season in 1965, and has attracted a whopping 47 votes at IMDb. This would normally be lost to the ages alongside Venus, except for the legendary internet encyclopedist named OZ, who has been chronicling the antics of sexy celebrities for more than 20 years, eventually covering just about anything and everything you can think of, even Sally’s performance in Seaway!

Well, of course she also did some nudity in real movies:

That’s right, she was still whippin’ em’ out at age 67 – and she looked pretty good!

This film debuted at Sundance in 2020, and received a spectacular 90% rating at Rotten Tomatoes. Unfortunately for its producers, it was all downhill after Sundance. Audiences didn’t like it (40% on the Popcorn Meter) and the academies ignored it. It attracted neither box office gold nor award-season glory – zero nominations from The Globes, The Oscars or the BAFTAs.

Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic ’80s Britain, and their unaffordable new life in an English manor house threatens to destroy the family.

Indie drama from the USA.

Seeking redemption, a middle aged man drives cross the country in search of the daughter he abandoned as a child.

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Possibly too good. Instagram may remove this one because her pierced nipples are clearly visible.

In case Instagram removes it, here is a back-up.

“First Playmate” is a trivia question that will win you many bar bets. Most people think it was Marilyn Monroe. You can also win bets on the first centerfold, also not Marilyn. You all know that Marilyn appeared in Playboy #1 in December of 1953, but the magazine never applied the term “Playmate” to her (MM was the “Sweetheart of the Month”), and she was not a centerfold, having appeared on pages 17-19. The main color picture was presented vertically, as shown in the link above.

• An obscure model/actress named Margie Harrison became the first “Playmate” when she was so called in the second-ever issue of the Bunny-oriented publication. Margie also became the first woman chosen as a Playmate twice, when the magazine pictured her again a few months later in the June, 1954 edition. Unfortunately for her, the picture was not identified as Margie at the time. It was not until two years after her appearance in Playboy #2 that Playboy’s readers learned her identity.

Brainscan covered her in Lil From Brazil in part 4 of his brilliant overview of Grindhouse Films.

• The first actual centerfold (two-page) was Janet Pilgrim (Miss July for 1955)

• The model for the first three-panel fold-out centerfold was Marian Stafford, Miss March for 1956.

Find more Playmate trivia here.

One site pictures every one of them!

By the way, you can find a replica of that first Playboy online. It was primitive!

The second issue was somewhat more professional in appearance, but was still rudimentary, and was still predominantly black-and-white.

French historical drama. Original title: De nos frères blessés (Literal translation: “Of Our Wounded Brothers”)

This is a true story. Fernand Iveton was a French citizen born in Algeria, then a French colony, who joined the war for Algerian independence in 1956. He was caught planting a bomb in his workplace in Algiers. and was eventually executed by guillotine.

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Kate Bosworth in “Big Sur” (2013), one of her few nude appearances.

That performance made the list of our Top Nude Scenes of 2013, but mostly because she had been so stingy with nudity before that time (and since that time, for that matter). Her scene would not normally have made our list since it usually includes 20 scenes and she finished in a tie for 23rd, but 2013 and 2014 were such impressive years for nudity that the list was expanded to 25 scenes. Those two years produced: Rosario Dawson in Trance; Margot Robbie in The Wolf of Wall Street; La Daddario in True Detective; ScarJo in Under the Skin. That is four of the top seven nude scenes of the Millennium in just those two years. (Daddario #1, Rosario #3, ScarJo #4, Robbie #7). And there were many other great scenes in those years as well.

Back on topic:

Kate showed only a bit of butt-crack in Blue Crush (2002), and a “blink and you miss it” nipple in The Rules of Attraction (also 2002), so she had basically done no nudity until 2013. In that year she did the above scene in Big Sur and a brief topless scene in And While We Were Here (below). There has been nothing since then. Perhaps she is the human equivalent of an 11-year cicada and we will see her naked twice again in 2024.