One of the greatest topless scenes in history.
I’ve pointed out before that the 1982-83 period may have been the Golden Age of screen nudity, and almost certainly was the Golden Age of nudity in the youthploitation genre. It would be difficult to choose the nude scene of the year in those years.
Some top options:
1982
Morgan Fairchild in The Seduction (1982)
Barbara Carrera in I, the Jury (1982)
Barbara Hershey in The Entity (1982)
Pia Zadora in Butterfly (1982)
Rosanna Arquette in The Executioner’s Song (1982)
Nastassia Kinski and Annette O’Toole in Cat People (1982)
Adrienne Barbeau in Swamp Thing (1982)
Mariel Hemingway and others in Personal Best (1982)
Phoebe Cates in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Phoebe Cates in Paradise (1982)
Diane Franklin in The Last American Virgin (1982)
Julia Duffy in Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (1982)
Daryl Hannah and Valerie Quennessen in Summer Lovers (1982)
Teri Garr in One From the Heart (1982)
Tanya Roberts in The Beastmaster (1982)
1983
Leah Thompson in All the Right Moves (1983)
Rebecca De Mornay in Risky Business (1983)
Virginia Madsen in Class (1983)
Valerie Kaprisky in Breathless (1983)
Caren Kaye in My Tutor (1983)
Betsy Russell in Private School (1983)
Pia Zadora in The Lonely Lady (1983)
Theresa Russell in Eureka (1983)
Susan Sarandon in The Hunger (1983)
Mariel Hemingway in Star 80 (1983)
Jamie Lee Curtis in Trading Places (1983)
Lisa Langlois in The Man Who Wasn’t There (1983)
Marina Sirtis in The Wicked Lady (1983)
Maruschka Detmers in First Name Carmen (1983)
Barbi Benton in Deathstalker (1983)
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I think I would vote for Leah Thompson or Lisa Langlois in 1983.
1982 is an impossible choice: I think Kinski and the two Cates scenes would be my top three, but I’m not sure of the order. Fast Times is the least impressive in terms of nudity, but is impossible to ignore because it is just so memorable.
Jennifer Jason Leigh in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) is worth a mention.
An em-bare-ass-ment of riches – one note: a few of Hershey’s shots of her being raped by “The Entity” (invisible hands groping her skin) were actually a full body prosthetic, damn good FX for ’82
I remember seeing a documentary that showed how it was done. (Pneumatics, if I recall correctly.)
Wasn’t the 40th anniversary of Trading places last year? Not that I have any objection to posting topless photos of Jamie Lee Curtis on the 41st, 42nd, 43rd, etc. anniversaries.
This is one of those lost posts that I just recovered. It was posted last year, but when I recovered it, the system re-dated it.
Cat People with no mention of Annette O’Toole? Blasphemy!!
Sacrilege.
Ah, Annette, so hot & topless in Smile (1975) – wish she’d done more nude scenes. Remember a great shot of her bare ass in 48 Hrs (that didn’t make the final film!) in one of those Playboy Year in Cinema review issues