Earliest mainstream movie with nudity?
10-23-04 | 10:00 PM
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Some of the earliest (back in the pre-code days) ...
"The Barbarian" (1933) Myrna Loy (she claims to have worn a body suit, but from what I've seen, it looks she was nude)
"Ecstasy" (1933) Hedy Lamar
"Tarzan and his Mate" (1934) Maureen O'Sullivan (a lenghty nude swimming sequence was body doubled by an Olympic swimmer)
"The Barbarian" (1933) Myrna Loy (she claims to have worn a body suit, but from what I've seen, it looks she was nude)
"Ecstasy" (1933) Hedy Lamar
"Tarzan and his Mate" (1934) Maureen O'Sullivan (a lenghty nude swimming sequence was body doubled by an Olympic swimmer)
10-24-04 | 02:24 AM
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Myrna Loy nude 
didn't they have nudity in a few foreign films back them too?
didn't they have nudity in a few foreign films back them too?
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10-24-04 | 08:29 AM
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One of the discs, I can't remember which, in the Thats Entertainment set touches on early nudity on film, and a bit of an outcry necessitating the studios to tone it down a bit back then.....which is ashame, because think of all the golden era hotties that we may have seen in the buff had they stayed on that course 
10-24-04 | 09:40 AM
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Originally posted by nightmaster
One of the discs, I can't remember which, in the Thats Entertainment set touches on early nudity on film, and a bit of an outcry necessitating the studios to tone it down a bit back then.....which is ashame, because think of all the golden era hotties that we may have seen in the buff had they stayed on that course
One of the discs, I can't remember which, in the Thats Entertainment set touches on early nudity on film, and a bit of an outcry necessitating the studios to tone it down a bit back then.....which is ashame, because think of all the golden era hotties that we may have seen in the buff had they stayed on that course
10-24-04 | 12:31 PM
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Originally posted by nightmaster
One of the discs, I can't remember which, in the Thats Entertainment set touches on early nudity on film, and a bit of an outcry necessitating the studios to tone it down a bit back then.....which is ashame, because think of all the golden era hotties that we may have seen in the buff had they stayed on that course
One of the discs, I can't remember which, in the Thats Entertainment set touches on early nudity on film, and a bit of an outcry necessitating the studios to tone it down a bit back then.....which is ashame, because think of all the golden era hotties that we may have seen in the buff had they stayed on that course
That was the Hays Code. Before that you could pretty much put anything you wanted in a film.
10-24-04 | 12:35 PM
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Did a google search and found this site describing some early nudity in films back to 1894.
http://www.filmsite.org/sexualfilms.html
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10-24-04 | 12:58 PM
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A few Pre-Code films (before the establishment of the Production Code Office in 1934 spearheaded by Joseph Breen) had nudity or partial nudity.
Nudity was explicitly banned by the Production Code, so from 1934-1966, no mainstream Hollywood film had full nudity, although foreign films which need not adhere to the Production Code had increasing amounts of it.
The first film distributed by a major Hollywood studio to have full frontal nudity was Blow-Up in 1966.
Nudity was explicitly banned by the Production Code, so from 1934-1966, no mainstream Hollywood film had full nudity, although foreign films which need not adhere to the Production Code had increasing amounts of it.
The first film distributed by a major Hollywood studio to have full frontal nudity was Blow-Up in 1966.
