Tremendous frontal and rear nudity from Linnea

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Petite, 19-year-old Linnea Quigley dances up a storm while stark naked in Auditions (1978)

I had never seen this particular scene before today, but dancing naked was kind of her signature move. She did it in the sensitive film treasure, Psycho From Texas:

And her most famous such scene was the legendary tombstone boogie in The Return of the Living Dead.

8 thoughts on “Tremendous frontal and rear nudity from Linnea”

  1. Without the Quigley scene, I’m pretty sure it’s a common 70s trashy action movie. Yeah, there’s on screen child abuse and graphic murder, but keep the tits and f bombs off screen and you’d be fine. Pg, no problem.

    Back then, remember, adding nudity and violence to make an r rating was common, they made more money!

    I think this solves it, and it means that many sites are wrong and this is NOT her film debut.

  2. Oh, and this scene? With a 16 year old? Even in 1975 they’d have burned him at the stake. Feigned nude humping a corpse? Bloody hell, this is a rough, mean, graphic scene.

    1. What’s truly amazing is that the original cut was rated PG!! (But that does support the fact that the nudity must have been added later. In the trailer with Linnea, it says “This film has been rated R.”)

      Man, that must have been a rough PG.

  3. Here’s the thing.

    Now I’m seeing a 1975 version and a 1978 version. 1978 puts her at 20.

    I just watched the last half of the movie (it’s on YouTube, believe it or not) and it’s really awful… but the change is obvious.

    You’ve got our psycho. He kills a woman, while a bunch of other stuff goes on. He then vanishes from the movie. The other plot threads continue.

    Suddenly, after 10 minutes or so of screen time, he pulls up to a bar. He’s dressed completely differently. His hair has changed. He’s visibly older!

    He goes into the bar, kills a guy, then menaces and eventually brutalizes the barmaid (Quigley) stripping her naked, forcing her to dance, then dousing her with a pitcher of beer. Finally, he forces her astride the corpse (clothed) of the guy he murdered.

    Satisfied, he grabs a bottle of whiskey and a box of KFC in what can only be described as the product placement version of sexual assault (KFC definitely did not consent) and leaves.

    During this, the action constantly cuts away to the other plots, which never stopped… which means this is happening in REAL TIME. The guy grew his hair, changed clothes, did all this stuff after murdering a woman across town while the cops try to arrest someone and all this other nonsense is going on.

    It’s very, very clearly cut in from footage shot later on, years later. That actor is at least a couple years older.

    So 1978? At least. 1981? Maybe. With Quigley it’s impossible to tell, she passed for 16 all the way into Savage Streets in 1984.

    1. 1978 seems to be the date cited most often (e.g. Wikipedia). But the YouTube version does give 1981 (in Roman numerals) as the official copyright date.

  4. Found a comment that says she was 23 in Psycho from Texas, that her role was added in 1981 when additional scenes were added.

    Interesting. Does seem odd that even in 1975 they’d have a 16-year-old doing gratuitous full frontal in a US production. Little flashes, sure, but the whole Monty is a bit much.

    1. That doesn’t seem right. She was in the theatrical trailer. Maybe they re-issued it with a new trailer?

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