SEX in the Movies.

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    Hypocrites (1915)

    Hypocrites was a Paramount 4-reel silent film from female director Lois Weber - the most important and prolific of all American women directors of the silent era. It was the first American motion picture with a central role played entirely in the nude.

    The message film was considered a shocking and controversial film that was held up for many months because of its full nudity.

    Nudity was portrayed in the ghostly apparition or figure of the Naked Truth (innovatively super-imposed through double exposure), literally shown by a nude woman (Margaret Edwards), who in the opening sequence, entered into the Gates of Truth.

    The nude, semi-transparent female revealed hypocritical desires for money, sex, and power in various vignettes (regarding politics, society, and the family). She guided the minister in monk's garb (now representing Gabriel the Ascetic (Courtenay Foote)) to teach him about hypocrisy (following his delivery of a sermon on the subject), as he tried to teach others about the Truth. In the end, the "prominent minister" expired in church during his Truth dream, shocking his congregation.

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    Inspiration (1915) (aka The Perfect Model)

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    This film (a lost film) has generally been regarded as the first non-pornographic American film to feature nudity.

    This was the first known US film in which a named, leading actress (Audrey Munson) stripped down to be naked, making her the first nude film star. Her nude appearances were as a tableau vivant (silent and motionless) - with only her breasts and backside in view,

    In the film Inspiration, Audrey Munson (a world-famous, real-life 'perfect' art model for numerous Beaux-Arts sculptors) appeared artistically nude as a sculptor's model, recreating classic artistic (nude) paintings in George Foster Platt's controversial film from the Mutual Film Corporation. In fact, the film told the story of her own life.

    It was the first of Munson's four silent films. Munson also appeared nude in Purity (1916) (see below), The Girl O' Dreams (1918), and in Heedless Moths (1921).
     
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    Behind the Screen (1916)

    In this two-reeler for Mutual, Charlie Chaplin portrayed a hired worker named David at a film studio.

    In the film's infamous 'gay' scene, he kissed a young girl (Edna Purviance) who was dressed in masculine clothing (as a masquerading way to find work), thereby upsetting his brutish and burly foreman Goliath (Eric Campbell). The boss believed they were homosexual and teased them mercilessly by acting 'prissy' to mock them.

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    Daughter of the Gods (1916)

    This controversial film (filmed in Jamaica) starred Australian-born swimming and diving champ Annette Kellermann (the "Esther Williams of the silent era"). It was Kellermann's second feature film, and also the most expensive film of its decade at over $1 million. It was the first feature film to cost over a million dollars.

    In 1910, she had already gained attention for advocating the scandalous-at-the-time one-piece bathing suit, for which she was arrested in Boston Harbor. She was one of the first major female stars to appear nude on screen (although her body was often covered by her long hair). She was called "the world's most perfectly-formed woman" and "The Australian Mermaid," and billed as "the Diving Venus."

    [Note: Earlier Kellermann films included Siren of the Sea (1911), The Mermaid (1911), and her first feature film, the underwater fantasy Neptune's Daughter (1914). The fictional biopic Million Dollar Mermaid (1952), with aquatic star Esther Williams, was based upon Kellermann's life.]

    The only surviving elements of the film were those of Kellermann's nude scene. She caused a great stir when at the time, publicity posters displayed her naked, with her long flowing hair covering her breasts and pubic region.

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    Audiences flocked to see Blow-Up (1966) - IMDb just to see Vanessa Redgrave topless. That aside it is a snapshot of swinging London in the 1960s.
    I would agree with William Holden that the bedroom scene is the least interesting part of Network (1976) - IMDb. It is a film studied by drama and screenwriting students.
     
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    Intolerance (1916) featured bare-breasted, lightly-draped women ("virgins of the sacred fires of life") in love temples, in the tinted Babylonian sequences.

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    Purity (1916)

    After her appearance a year earlier in Inspiration (1915) (see above), sculptor's model Audrey Munson also appeared nude in another silent film, Rea Burger's 7-reel Purity (1916), in a dual role, as a spirit figure and as an artist's nude model named Purity/Virtue.

    The National Board of Review allowed nudity in the film, as long as it was shot at a distance and posed motionless (or viewed only momentarily).

    Even with some censored (or edited) scenes, the film was banned in various places (Kansas, and in the cities of Dallas and Washington). The New York Times called the film "offensive," claiming that Munson as Purity was a "beautiful figure of a famous model exploited on the screen."

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    The Vixen (1916) (aka The Love Pirate)

    In this lost film, Theda Bara took the role of spoiled, deceiving nymphomaniac "vixen" Elsie Drummond.

    She wooed Wall Street businessman Martin Stevens (A. H. Van Buren) away from his interest in her sweet sister Helen (Mary G. Martin). She continued to seek after rich men, eventually marrying young statesman Knowles Murray (Herbert Heyes) (again stolen from Helen) - but still willing to be unfaithful with Stevens who had since regained his fortune.

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    This elaborately-produced film (now presumed lost) from the Fox Film Corporation was one of vamp Theda Bara's biggest hits. It was the sexy star's first film made in studios on the West Coast, and her most famous film - although only fragments exist today.

    When the film was promoted, publicists realized that her name Theda Bara was an anagram for "Arab Death." The fact was overly exaggerated with the claim that she was the reincarnated daughter of Seti, high priest of the pharaohs, and in a past life was actually Cleopatra.

    In the over two-hour long epic, she portrayed the historical Queen of Egypt Cleopatra -- noted for her risque and bare-breasted costuming. She was seen nearly nude with the contours of her breasts held by two curving gold asps, and she wore a gown with spidery embroidery over her crotch.

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    Isle of Love (1918) (aka An Adventuress (1920))

    Young starlet Virginia Rapp (with the screen name of Rappe), who was later portrayed as the victim in the rape/murder case/scandal involving silent film comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle on Labor Day 1921, appeared in this film. She and other participants laid the blame on Arbuckle before her death four days later of a ruptured bladder and peritonitis.

    She ultimately appeared in small roles in about 10 films during her short career and had developed a trampish reputation as one who would frequently strip and sometimes model in the nude.

    Her biographical information claimed multiple abortions, venereal disease, dabbling in prostitution, and an out-of-wedlock child raised by foster care.




     
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    Tarzan of the Apes (1918)

    In this ten-reel silent film - the first screen version of Edgar Rice Burrough's jungle character, Tarzan at ten years old (Gordon Griffith as younger ape-boy Tarzan, Elmo Lincoln as adult) was almost nude for much of the first third of the film. He could be considered the first child actor to appear naked on screen.

    Then, he abruptly thought to himself: "Clothes! At the bottom of his little English heart survived a longing for them" - and adopted clothes to cover himself.

    The breasts and buttocks of African natives (called "negroes") in their camp were also briefly shown.

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    Anders Als Die Andern (1919, Germ.) (aka Different From the Others)

    Director Richard Oswald's silent film (only half of which survived) was reportedly the first representation of male homosexuality (condemned as "the third sex") in a feature-length film, and the first screen depiction of a gay bar (with gay males and butch females). It was also notable as one of the first films (and maybe the first) to sympathetically portray homosexuality and defend it.

    The controversial film was banned by the Nazis (who despised and prohibited homosexuality) and all prints were ordered destroyed, although one incomplete print surfaced in

    Ukraine. The film's themes were repeated in Victim (1961, UK), with Dirk Bogarde.

    The two ill-fated lovers were:

    • Paul Korner (Conrad Veidt), a reclusive university student, and a prominent virtuoso violinist
    • Kurt Sivers (Fritz Schulz), his young music student
    In one polemical scene, after a doctor/sexologist (Magnus Hirschfeld) vainly tried hypnosis to cure Korner, he then gave a defense of how homosexuality was acceptable:

    Love for one's own sex can be just as pure and noble as that for the opposite sex. This orientation is to be found among many respectable people in all levels of society. Only ignorance of bigotry can condemn those who feel differently. Don't despair! As a homosexual, you can still make valuable contributions to humanity.

    The film had a tragic ending (suicide for Korner) when he was blackmailed (threats of exposure) for being homosexual, and he faced jail time for violating anti-homosexuality statutes and the social stigma of being outed.

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    The Ten Commandments (1923)

    Director Cecil B. DeMille claimed that his films condemned sex and sins of the flesh, although this Biblical tale about Moses contained lots of both. The film was regarded as an allegory of the idolatry of Hollywood (i.e., the worship of false gods) and its controversial behaviors in the early 20s (especially following the Fatty Arbuckle scandal/trial).

    Sex and debauchery were combined in the scene of the Hebrews worshipping the golden calf. The people engaged in a massive orgy (kissing, licking wine off of a woman's leg/foot, etc.). Their fitting judgment would be punishment when leader Moses' return - their subsequent retribution.

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    Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)

    There was fleeting nudity in a few of this epic film's amazing two-color Technicolor segments:

    • during a triumphant processional scene, two rows of bare-breasted flower girls danced in a pageant/parade as they tossed flowers to the crowds lining the street
    • the rear nudity of a male galley slave was glimpsed briefly
    • in another early scene, cruel Roman soldiers pulled off a woman's top to expose her breasts once she was thrown to the ground
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    Just watched this and was impressed!
     
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    At least someone is reading this. X
     
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    I'm reading too.
     
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    This is a very unique topic with a good plethora of examples that invokes those tingles in my body. Reading about these and researching them further feels kinda taboo, even though its all very tame by today's standards.
     
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    Josephine Baker !!!

     
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    Bed and Sofa (1927, Soviet Union) (aka Tretya Meshchanskaya, or Third Meshchanskaya St.)

    Directed by co-writer Abram Room, this comedic, modern love-triangle silent film drama was considered a Soviet version of Ernst Lubitsch's Design For Living (1933), and had hints of Francois Truffaut's Jules et Jim (1962, Fr.). Its subject matter involved adultery, menage a trois, polygamy, and abortion. The influential film was originally banned in the US and Western Europe due to the sexual nature of its subject matter.

    The ahead-of-its-time story told of a threesome living arrangement in a small, one-room Moscow apartment in 1920s USSR, during an overcrowded, housing shortage crisis, between:

    • Kolya (Nikolai Batalov), an egocentric, piggish stone-mason construction-foreman
    • Lyuda (Lyudmila Semyonova), his unfulfilled and resentful housewife
    • Volodya (Vladimir Fogel), the lodger, an old revolutionary Army friend of Kolya's
    Volodya shared their cramped basement apartment on Third Meschanskaya St. - sleeping on the sofa, while the couple's bedroom was separated by only a small curtain. Volodya began an affair with Lyuda when Kolya was out of town for business, after showering her with gifts, taking her for a plane ride, and paying attention to her. The three decided to retain their "open" living arrangement when the affair was admitted (Volodya revealed to Kolya: "I've got to tell you that your wife and me..."), and soon after, Volodya took over Lyuda's bed - and Kolya was sleeping on the sofa.

    However, it was unclear who the father was when she became pregnant. Abortion was considered ("You must have an abortion. I don't want somebody else's baby"), although strong-willed Lyuda rejected the idea when she decided to leave both men after visiting a private hospital and foregoing the operation ("Semyonova got frightened and left" recalled a nurse). While waiting for her turn in the waiting room along with a prostitute, as well as a young girl with her mother, she looked out the window and saw a young boy playing with a doll - after which she quickly exited.

    She decided to take control of her life - she quickly packed her things, and left a note that she would never return to the Third Street apartment. With tears in her eyes, she assured herself: "I'll find a job. Everything will be all right." She departed from Moscow on a train for a new life of freedom.

    The two men, after discovering that she had vacated the apartment, admitted they were "scoundrels," but then resumed their lives as comrades-bachelors, as if nothing had happened.

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