Maybe. Here’s the story.
Colleen Camp played a Playmate in Apocalypse Now, and was actually photographed Playboy-style for a mock-up copy of Playboy that was used as a prop in the movie. “This image was shot by noted Playboy photographer Mario Casilli and was subsequently published in the magazine following the release of the movie. A centrefold such as this can be seen in various scenes of the movie and even more prominently in Coppola’s 2001 Redux cut.”
Yeah, yeah, we knew all that, but …
“Lynda Carter of Wonder Woman fame was originally cast in the role during pre-production of the movie and travelled to the Philippines for location filming which was halted in late May 1967 when Typhoon Olga destroyed the sets. By the time production was ready to continue Carter was contracted to film Wonder Woman and could not return to the picture meaning Colleen Camp was cast as Miss May in her place.”
Allegedly, Lynda also was filmed for the prop copy of Playboy.
UPDATE:
Anyway, here’s a copy in spectacular quality if you would like to study it. (Purely for academic research, of course.)
It’s too small, but I think the Camp shot looks too similar to the Carter shot.
Meaning?
I think Fake Detective was right: I think they’re high end airbrush fakes. The actresses airbrushed onto the same body.
Can’t confirm until/unless we see the Camp version in the same quality as the Carter version posted today. But it just feels very soft, painted, and the small versions just look REALLY similar in the chestal areas.
The right hand is in a different position. And the jacket is slightly different. Well, maybe.
There is one fact (or rather one omission) that tends to support your position. We know the Camp version is real because we know that Playboy actually participated in the shoot with its photographer, going so far as to document it in the actual magazine.
Yet in all these years they have never taken responsibility for the other one. You’d think they would not be sitting on a topless pic of Lynda. That would have sold a shitpile of magazines when she was in her peak as Wonder Woman. Furthermore, the “movie props” site details the facts about how the Colleen Camp centerfold was produced, even naming the photographer, but does not mention any specifics about Carter, and in fact doesn’t even say outright that she ever posed for the shot.
So I join you in skepticism, but I don’t lean either way in making this call.
I remember Colleen Camp. She did a lot of work without ever becoming a major star. She was funny, as well as quite remarkably top-heavy. She was never topless in any movie I remember seeing, not even “The Swinging Cheerleaders”.
PS – She never stopped working, and is still working today. A trouper.
I will cover her topless appearances in a new post.
Better quality than Bobby-Jo…
Whoa nice find. And here’s an article from Playboy in which it was confirmed by both Coppola and Coleen Camp.
Not just that, but if you have a copy of the actual Playboy issue with Camp, in the article she specifically states that Carter shot a centerfold picture and she (Camp) had to reshoot it.
Way back when, there was a guy called the Fake Detective (or something like that) who had a site which investigated suspected fake nudes and tried to point out the flaws or find the original picture (basically a Snopes for nudity). He concluded that the Carter picture was probably a fake, but said it was one of the best he had ever seen. I wrote him that the Playboy article would seem to indicate that it wasn’t a fake, but he never responded or followed up on it.
It’s mentioned that the production was closed down in May 1967.
I think this must be a typo and the correct date should be May 1976 (?), especially because Lynda Carter was born in 1951 and would only have been fifteen years old in 1967.
Per IMDb: Filming from March 1976 – 21 May 1977
Lynda’s photoshoot must have been before location filming, because Wonder Woman began in 1975. (That is consistent with the narrative, which says she was cast in pre-production.)
Looks convincingly like her.