Mrs. Peel in her 1977 Series, Three Piece Suite. (Sketch: Screen Night, from episode 1.)
There’s no body double. It is a smooth single take. The live audience reacted appropriately. As far as I know, this is her only legitimate nude scene.
Raw captures:
The same three captures smoothed:
Gotta love the BBC – there are two other topless women in the same scene.
In a related scene (same character, different scene):
Video here
It’s weird to hear Diana speaking in a nasal voice with a bizarre accent (I think it is supposed to be American).
I don’t know what that theater critic was on about. Her body looks plenty fine to me.
Did you read my obituary of that asshole? It will give you the idea. Being mean to women, especially making harsh and often inaccurate comments about their appearance, was his thing.
I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned that late in the life of author Norman Mailer, I developed a pen-pal friendship with him. We bonded over our mutual contempt for John Simon.
Nah, I hadn’t seen that before. Yeesh, what a douchebag.
Not to be a John Simon, but didya ever ask Mailer about that awful movie he directed?
No. I was enjoying an exchange of letters with a true literary giant who famously has a short fuse, so I didn’t want to take a chance on setting him off and losing my place of honor! We discussed Harlot’s Ghost and the stage career of his daughter Kate.
John Simon, by coincidence happened to fit into both subjects.
It began with the NY Times assigning John Simon to review Harlot’s Ghost. (Negative.)
I wrote the Times book editor, and basically said “The Washington Post hired Anthony Fucking Burgess, a legitimate literary giant, to review that book, and you hired John Simon? C’mon! It’s a book. There’s no make-up to criticize.” I sent a copy to Mailer, which began the correspondence.
He wrote me and said there was no chance the Times would print my letter, which went into great detail about the book.
I wrote and said. “I know. Just venting because I liked so many things about the book and Simon always seemed to miss the point.”
He wrote back and said (paraphrasing) “Their choice of Simon was even worse than you think. He’s not only incompetent, but definitely biased. He reviewed a play my daughter was in, criticized her appearance, and the two of us almost came to blows. Then the Times assigned him to review my book!”
The remainder of the correspondence was about the book.
Funny! I know about Mailer’s temper, of course. Among other fights, he got into one with either William Buckley or Gore Vidal (who of course fought with each other) IIRC.
If Hollywood insists on making movies about writers, these are the ones they should be doing them on.
Just wondering, did you write such letters by hand back then or using a typewriter? Or did you already have a PC and a text editor?
I had a laptop. This was 1992ish.
I just pulled out his letters. His letters are apparently printed, not typed, because there is no sign of the keys creating any indentations in the paper. He signed by hand, and hand-addressed the envelopes which I still have.
Let me amend that.
Somebody signed, and the same handwriting addressed the envelope, but I just Googled his signature and it does not seem to match, so it seems that an assistant signed for him. (Darn it. I always assumed it was his handwriting, but now I feel there is zero chance. That bastard!)
Roger Ebert wrote a nasty obituary about him as well.
So that was what was underneath those skin-tight clothing from “The Avengers”….. Damn Ms. Peel.
or, more Britishly, I *say* Mrs. Peel, not bad at all.
Where is it time stamp-wise in this 11 minute video?
At about 2:45 in this 11 minute video
As far as I can see, – and you don’t see all that much unfortunately – those are really nice tits. I wish that we had seen more of them.
That last image makes me think the porn industry should do an I Dream of Jeannie parody. I cream on Jeannie?
Given your concern about free movies on the internet, you don’t have to post this, but I thought you might be interested in this website if you’re not already familiar with it. And, I think many of the films here are no longer under copyright as well.
The films there are indeed genuinely rare. I think many of them were once considered to be lost films. Of the more than 2,000 films there, I’ve only heard of I think two.
I saw a documentary from the early 1970s on that website called Marjoe (a portmanteau from Mary and Joseph) about Marjoe Goertner who in the late 1940/early 1950s was a child preacher.
There is a child preacher in the 1970s Norman Lear show Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman that is clearly based on Marjoe.
Even though the documentary was put out on VHS, according to wiki something happened to the master recording and it was thought to be a lost film for a few years. The film won the Oscar for best documentary.
I’ve now seen 2 best Oscra documentary winners from that era and a third that was nominated.
Interesting that You Can See Everything is receiving attention for blurring the meaning of a documentary when the 1971 best documentary winner, The Hellstrom Chronicle, did that 55 years ago. In that case though, I’m pretty sure it won for its stunning visuals of insects.
The one that lost at the Oscars I’ve seen is Robert Hendrickson’s Manson. Apparently for much of the time he was filming he didn’t believe that the Manson Family were murderers and he happily filmed them dressing up as pirates and play fighting with knives. According to Ed Sanders who wrote the first book on the Manson Family (though not the first book on the trials themselves) called The Family, it was only after Sanders spoke with Hendrickson that Hendrickson realized what these people were capable of. The theme a happy family of sorts who were also cold blooded killers is the inspiration for Rob Zombie’s House of 1,000 Corpses and The Devil’s Rejects and a number of shots are directly copied from Hendrickson’s Manson.
If anybody is interested, the full episode is on YouTube right now.
I seem to remember that many decades ago she starred in a stage performance of A Midsummer’s Night Dream as Titania and performed the role nude, but cameras were banned from the theater.