Today’s Tuna retrospective- a personal favorite: Gabrielle Drake in Au Pair Girls

Shocking fact: this year was the 50th anniversary of this movie’s release.


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8 thoughts on “Today’s Tuna retrospective- a personal favorite: Gabrielle Drake in Au Pair Girls

  1. This is one of my favorite nude scenes from the era–or any era, really. Not only is Ms. Drake stunningly beautiful in her birthday suit, but she is delightfully uninhibited and casual about her nakedity, both the actress and her character. Such an awesome scene.

  2. That’s pretty amazing that she has had a prolific career both before and after Au Pair Girls. In fact, she was on a sci-fi TV series called U.F.O. before this.

    It would be like Erin Gray starring in a bunch of Skinemax movies after Buck Rogers ended. Or Maren Jensen or Laurette Spang after Battlestar Galactica. All the boys that watched those shows suddenly get to see the actress totally naked in movies.

    Although, we did have Black Widow totally nude in harsh lighting right after the Avengers. It wasn’t exactly a sex romp though.

    1. Speaking of The Avengers (the original) she was in the “Hidden Tiger” episode of the Emma Peel b & w season.

    2. I used to watch UFO in syndication in the 1970s and really liked it. But I was pretty young. Watching it as an adult is kind of wild given what this show expected the future to be like. The far off future of 1980 that is. It’s a scifi show so the idea of having a moonbase isn’t ridiculous. That’s especially true in that funding cuts were the main reason we didn’t build at least a modest one by then. But the idea that part of the uniform for female personal on the Moon would be a metallic mini-dress and purple wig? Absolutely brilliant!

      1. One more thing. UFO had one of the great TV themes. I put it up there with Hawaii 5-0 and Bonanza. In fact I’ve had it as my ringtone for years.

      2. The thing I could never understand about UFO was they all worked for this ultra-secret organisation called “SHADO (Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organisation)”, but they then go and have big labels on all their vehicles, spaceships, submarines etc. etc. etc with their corporate logo plastered all over them.
        I often thought if you want to keep the organisation secret why employ a PR agency to design your logo?

        1. As I (vaguely) recall it, the “alien invasion” generally consisted of a single alien spacecraft…spinning like a top, for some reason…flying toward Earth, and getting intercepted and blown to bits by a single interceptor craft. Every so often, an alien craft slipped through and got to the surface, but nothing happened that aroused the interest of the world at large. Lamest invasion ever.

  3. Fantastic! Pity there’s apparently no better source material for this and her other nude scenes. And I never knew her brother was Nick Drake

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