When this film came out, it generated a certain amount of buzz around two things:
1. There were love scenes between Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster.
About sixteen years earlier, they had performed arguably the most famous love scene of all time in From Here to Eternity, a scene that had the censors in a tizzy and had sent the moral guardians of 1953 into full outrage mode. People were curious to see them together again.
2. Deborah Kerr was naked.
Deborah was a formidable performer and a renowned beauty, but she had never done a nude scene in the prime of her career, which had taken place in the 1950s, a decade in the heart of Hollywood’s Non-Nude Years (1935-1962). Nobody expected her to get naked in 1969, when she was nearly 50 years old, but Kerr stripped for her romantic screen reunion with Lancaster. It is the only time she bared her breasts on film.
Oddly enough Ms. Kerr says the reason she quit acting was because of all the sex and nudity in films. She thought this scene was so unnecessary and insisted she used a body double. Obviously that’s only partly true since that topless shot is clearly her. She did fess up to the nude scene in The Arrangement and thought it was the only time it was necessary but said that the scene was cut. I guess there was a more revealing scene than the partial butt shot in the final film.
Wasn’t Bonnie Bedelia in The Gypsy Moths. She was stunning.
Deborah Kerr was a gorgeous woman, with or without drapery.
Amazing when you realize these “old” actresses were the same age as me now: Deborah had beautiful MILF tits & ass, & of course Burt was part of the male ass shot tenor of the time (Heston in Planet of the Apes, G rated!) with The Swimmer
That’d be a good thread, studio-era actresses who got nude in a big way: Carroll Baker, Stella Stevens, HELLO!