The Nudity of Early Hollywood
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 Grindhouse Years
Part 1 of this series, The Immoral Mr. Teas, can be found here
Part 2, Nudie Cuties and More, 1963-1965, can be found here.
Part 3, The Nudie Cuties of 1963, can be found here
Part 4, The First Nudie Musical, can be found here
Part 5, Early Nudie Costume Comedies, can be found here
Part 6, The Mid Sixties, can be found here
Part 7, 1967, can be found here.
Part 8, The Turn of the Decade, can be found here.
Part 9, The First Nudie Sketch Comedy, can be found here.
Part 10, Getting Harder, is found here.
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 Women of Twin Peaks
Part 1 covers Madchen Amick and Peggy Lipton
Part 4 covers Lara Flynn Boyle
The same articles, with the added bonus of all ofthe 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 have been created in the past two decades. (And these 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.)
Film nudity that never was.
Virginie Ledoyen in Mouche. The film was abandoned.
Julie Newmar in Monsieur Lecoq. The film was abandoned before completion. The photos were taken on the set (apparently unknown to Julie).
Sienna Miller in Hippie, Hippie Shake. The film was abandoned before completion. These images came from a paparazzo who photographed the set.
Sherry Jackson in Gunn. The film exists. This nude scene does not, but the pic of Sherry and Craig Stevens was taken on the set.
Charlize Theron topless in The Cider House Rules. Charlize’s butt made the cut. Her breasts did not. The topless scene was part of the screening in Toronto, but was never in theaters or home media.
Rebecca Romijn’s topless scene in Godsend was left on the cutting room floor.
Marilyn Monroe in Something’s Got to Give. Marilyn was fired. The film was never completed. It would have been the first color nude scene from a major star in a mainstream Hollywood picture.
Barbara Rhoades in There Was a Crooked Man (1970). The scene was cut from the theatrical release. A few stills exist, but the footage seems to be lost forever.
Helen Mirren in Caligula (2024 version) Helen Mirren did more explicit nudity than we saw when Caligula hit the theaters. Almost 50 years later, the unused footage from Caligula was still preserved, and was cut into a completely new version, including the additional Mirren nudity.
Phoebe Cates in Paradise. Some 40 years Paradise was released, some original uncut, unfiltered footage Phoebe Cates nudity appeared on the Blu-Ray.
Other Topics of Interest
Whatever Happened to Jennie Lynn?
The Rise and Fall and Tragic Death of Julia Anne Robinson.
Pier Angeli in Addio, Alexandra (1969)
Rita Jenrette was a political wife, a b-actress, a model, then a business mogul, then a princess living in the world’s most expensive house, then a homeless princess. She was caught in the middle of scandals, and did some scandalous things of her own. She also got naked in a terrible movie named Zombie Island Massacre. (1984)
Sheila Sands – Python favorite, and the designated stripper in British productions of the late 60s and early 70s.
The very old issues of Other Crap (2002-2018) can be found here.