It’s not a see-thru in the sense that you can see her areolas or nipples, but you can at least see the full shape of her breasts. The effect is more like pasties.

Pretty Maids is an all-but-forgotten exploitation film, a black comedy written and produced by Star Trek’s creator, Gene Roddenberry, and directed by Eurotrash legend Roger Vadim, the European John Derek. It featured a theme song by the Osmond Brothers.

So ya know it ain’t gonna be about the Holocaust.

Unless Mel Brooks was involved.

It sort of hinges on the premise that all of our high school fantasies were true. All the chicks had perfect bodies, ran around in mini-skirts, and had sexual habits that made minks look like the Sisters of St. Joseph. Remember that sexy teacher whose dress you looked up every day? Well, she really wanted to sleep with you, but you just never asked. Remember that wise coach who was also your guidance counselor and who taught you so much? You should have told him you needed some poontang. He’d have been there for you, dude. He would have told the hot teacher (who wanted his bod) that you were impotent and needed the cure, and that only she could help. And then she would have cleaned your pipes.

Rock Hudson plays the coach, “Tiger” McDrew, a former professional sporting great who has a wholesome recipe to turn youths into happy adults. For the boys – plenty of sports to keep them away from disruptive influences. For the girls – well, there’s only one way that they can ever learn to be women, if you catch my drift. Ol’ Dr. Hudson has the prescription of love. Yes, that’s right, Rock was sleeping with the females and pimping females for the males. He was really into that whole heterosexual thing. (Cough) Unfortunately, more and more of the high school chickadees start to feel possessive about Rock, and their desire to hook him seems to coincide quite closely to their commitment to an eternal dirt nap. Why does he kill ’em all? Well, Rock is happily married, and he just can’t have his wife find out about his special proclivities, can he?

It is a completely irresponsible movie, filled with amoral characters, other characters who know about the amorality but don’t care, and other characters who simply don’t care about anything. It features plenty of high school teachers seducing students of both sexes, and gratuitous camera angles up the skirts of high school girls, except of course for the ones who are already naked. In fact, this film will absolutely make you squirm when you experience it with today’s eyes and ears. Women found naked and brutalized? The perfect setup for plenty of cavalier remarks (“Cool! We never practice on the day of a murder”) and visual jokes. Roddy McDowell, the principal, offers a fitting funeral oration, that so-and-so was a great girl and a “terrific little cheerleader,” a mantra he had already repeated several times. This film could only be made as a micro-budgeted indie today. In the early 70s, however, this script was sold to MGM, and was able to attract the wholesome Rock Hudson to star, backed up by Telly Savalas, Scotty from Star Trek, Roddy McDowell, Angie Dickinson, and Keenan Wynn.

I guess the film is sort of fun in a shallow, superficial, Roger Vadim kind of way, although Vadim’s slimy European softcore attitude didn’t exactly mesh very well with the wholesome “palm trees and cheerleaders” setting, and the humor really didn’t work for me, neither in 1971 nor now. The film’s smirking condescension toward the dead women was coldly funny, and still is, as a satire of how little people really care for one another, but this is not your basic laugh-out-loud kind of humor.

On the other hand, I’m embarrassed to admit, when I first saw this film with my friends, back when it was in the theaters, some of us (mostly me) were wont to repeat the line about “a terrific little cheerleader” when we discussed people who died tragically.

Yeah, remember Jack Kennedy? Geez, he was a great man … and a terrific little cheerleader.

We repeated this stale joke for years, so I guess the film made some kind of an impression on us.

Of course, we took a lot of drugs in those days.

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* In the past 55 years, or at least the portion on the internet, nobody has identified Adriana Bentley correctly. That’s not surprising. This is her only IMDb credit, and there are no pictures of her on the open net. Playboy ran a pictorial about this film in April of 1971, with the accompanying article written by Roger Vadim himself, but it mentioned all the nude women except Adriana.

There are, however, many references to her on newspapers.com, including this interview in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, which specifically mentions her topless scene, referring to it quaintly as “barefoot from the waist up.” (They rarely used the word “topless” in mainstream newspapers in those days.) She mentions that she was promised that the scene would be blurred, but we all realize that promise was broken. That said, she looked great. She had a scene alone with Rock Hudson, but did not receive a separate credit, presumably because she never spoke. (She spoke English with a weird mixture of Spanish and Swedish accents, which would have revealed that she was not a California high school student.)

The reason she was left out of the Playboy article was political. All of the other naked women were cast by Vadim himself, but Adriana was forced on Vadim by Roddenberry, for reasons we don’t know, but we probably do. (Ahem. Promises made …) She said in another interview that she was also ostracized during the publicity tour. She did mention in a third interview, that the veteran supporting actors in the cast (Keenan Wynn, Telly Savalas, Angie Dickinson and Roddy McDowell) were very kind to her, so it was just “Team Vadim” that treated her as an outsider.

I assembled all these articles about her just because she has basically disappeared without a trace and the open internet is no help. Here’s one more – a real oddball piece about her walking the MGM lion!

Episode 7:

Video (thanks to the commenter).

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The series transports viewers to the People’s Republic of Poland in the turbulent 1950s, where an intense search is underway for a mysterious spy codenamed “Cień.” When a British agent unexpectedly disappears, both the Security Service (UB) and British intelligence begin a race to find him.

2026 – Morpheus – “Morfeusz” – episode 1

The series follows Piotr Leyer, a young lawyer and exemplary father who, after the brutal murder of his brother, is drawn into the world of a family gang he has spent his life trying to distance himself from. A series of unforeseen circumstances places him at the head of the organization previously run by his brother, and before that, his father. To everyone’s surprise, Piotr thrives in the underworld, and his effectiveness and ruthlessness quickly earn him respect and power. The seemingly ordinary husband and father gradually crosses moral boundaries. When Moro crosses his path, the spiral of violence and evil begins to spiral dangerously.

Here is the video from Morpheus, Episode 1

Original source: Nudografia.pl (Many additional captures)

Zendaya at the world premiere of The Odyssey in a new Schiaparelli creation.

It’s an odd design. Here’s a better look at the dress.

What she did here was not easy. You have to see the video to appreciate it.

Colorized just because she’s gorgeous. I first posted the B&W video and captures exactly one year and one day ago, but she shockingly got zero votes in our annual poll. I realize it’s just a simple topless shot, but ZERO?

(They go all the way up to V7, but I haven’t tried the advanced levels)

French drama.

Gwen is in her last year of high school. Her mother has just died. She lives in Morlaix, a small town in Brittany, France. In the middle of the year, Jean-Luc arrives, a sophisticated, cultured and magnetic Parisian.

Aminthe Audiard is 20, and I believe this is her first nude scene.

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The images appear to be from decades ago. She turned 50 last month, and looks to be in her twenties in the vids/photos, which would be pre-Bruce (she was 29 when they met). I don’t know whom she’s in bed with in this sex tape, but it sure as hell ain’t Bruce Willis.

(Somebody mentioned in the comments that it is her ex-.)

If the webmaster moves that article, you can track it down here.

Sidebar: check out some see-thru pics and modest nudes of Penny Lane in the comment section.

It’s always good to take another look, even thought we have seen some or all of these before. That scene from True Detective is truly one of the all-time greats. That entire season of True Detective was masterful!

This is an indie gay drama. The main character takes a while to realize that he really doesn’t like girls, so he manages to get in a couple of hetero sex scenes before he determines that his true path leads in the opposite direction.

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