I know it’s not exactly a hot issue at the moment, but it crossed my mind for some reason, and I decided to tinker with it a bit. It’s difficult to work with a back-lit subject when the camera is shooting right into the sun, and it’s even more difficult when the image is tiny to begin with, but I took a shot at blowing it up and trying to create natural skin tones. I’d say I failed, but it was an interesting experiment.

I’m not suggesting that the image is a body double, but just noting that with all that magnification, the image came out looking like Faye Dunaway.

French psychological horror. Original title: Peau à Peau (Skin-to-skin)

A young mother struggling with postpartum depression and insomnia becomes increasingly haunted by the traumatic death of her sister, spiraling deeper into psychological turmoil as she tries to care for her newborn.

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Few people remember her today, but Pier Angeli had been a significant screen presence in the 1950s. She co-starred and hobnobbed with all of the A-Listers. After all, this is a woman who had a torrid affair with the legendary James Dean.

Vogue tells the story:

(Pier’s mother Enrica) had reservations about Dean, considering him untidy and ill-mannered. His atheism was another issue; Enrica was a devout Catholic. Despite Dean’s attempts to win her over, including by dressing up for visits and renting a tuxedo for Pierangeli’s movie premiere, Enrica remained unimpressed. Pierangeli and Dean continued to see each other in secret until November 1954, when just six months into their courtship, he asked her to marry him. She instinctively said yes. But two days later, after breaking the news to her mother, Pierangeli returned to Dean not only to renege her acceptance of his proposal, but also to announce that they must never see each other again. By the end of that month, she would surprise everyone by marrying the singer Vic Damone, an Italian-American and a Catholic. Needless to say, Dean was devastated.

Damone and Dean were not her only A-list connections. She was also engaged to Kirk Douglas at one time, and had once co-starred with no less a luminary than Paul Freakin’ Newman.

During her marriage to Vic Damone, they appeared as guests on the June 17, 1956 episode of What’s My Line:

By the end of the sixties, however, Hollywood had abandoned her. Near the end of her life, Pier tried to resuscitate her career by appearing in some low-rent projects to demonstrate that she was still working. This was one of those projects. There are reports that she wanted to keep this film out of distribution, and it’s easy to understand why she felt that way. This project had to do her career more harm than good. Her face looked older than her 37 years, her overacting in one sequence was embarrassing (scene 202 in the video link below), and Addio was a cheapjack piece of erotica which should theoretically have been far below her pay grade. Unfortunately, Addio Alexandra was not the low point of her career desperation. That would be Octaman.

By that time in her carer, she felt that she had run out of luck, with no more career opportunities, and no possibility of finding a new love. Despite the other relationships in her life, she never got over James Dean. In a letter to a good friend, written two months before her death, she wrote:

I don’t think any man can save me now. I think it may be too late. I think I was meant to live and die alone. Love is far away, somewhere deep inside of me. My love died at the wheel of a Porsche.

Did her despondency about the state of her life and career lead to suicide? There is a lot of debate about that. She did die of a drug overdose at 39. Was it an accidental overdose? Suicide? An error by her physician? We will never know for sure. We can’t conclude that she took her own life, but neither can we rule out the possibility, given her emotional state in those final years.

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Addio, Alexandra contains almost all of her career nudity. Pier Angeli was billed here under her real name, Anna Maria Pierangeli.

Videos here.

And here are Pier and Collette Descombes in publicity stills. The scene below is in the film, but these particular shots must have been posed on the set. Pier is the one with glasses!

The remainder of their careers:

Pier Angeli

… was topless in a 1970 film entitled In the Folds of the Flesh

Videos from In the Folds of the Flesh

For more info and a vast number of (non-nude) pictures, here is a very comprehensive web site dedicated exclusively to Pier Angeli.

Collette Descombes

… did an excellent full-body nude scene in La Ragazzina (1974)

… did a short topless scene in a 1969 film called Orgasmo.

Real Housewives of Atlanta star Nene Leakes showing nipples when going braless in a see through dress to The Abbey’s 35th Anniversary in West Hollywood on May 20, 2026!

The gallery is UHD – every pore distinguishable.

The trailer

Her nudography. There’s really nothing to see. She’s been acting for 40 years, and there’s only a brief flash of one breast and a partially obstructed view of her butt.

Natasha Poly braless and showing nipples in a see through dress as she’s attending a screening of El Ser Querido (The Beloved) during the 79th Cannes Film Festival on May 16, 2026!

Sample:

VHD gallery

Mexican dramedy. English: “These Ruins That You See”

A literature teacher in Mexico City decides to move back to his hometown. Even before reaching his destination, complications arise. Once in Cuévano he gets quickly enmeshed by the social climate of the town.

This is one of Blanca’s many, many nude performances. (Approx. 20)

The entire film is online free, but the quality is poor. Blanca’s nude scenes are at 07:50, 50:24, and 01:36:37. The last one is the one that matches the first two collages above.

Lithuanian thriller.

A young man infiltrates a radical neo-Nazi group to find the killer of his LGBT+ activist boyfriend.

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This is a French/Polish psychological drama, known in Poland as “Bądź moja wola,” (By my wish) and in France as “Que ma volonté soit faite” (May my will be done).

In a remote village, Nawojka grapples with dark urges she believes stem from an ancestral curse. Her world shifts when Sandra moves in next door, offering a glimpse of freedom from her family’s rigid control.

If you are interested in the details, Eye For Film did an excellent summary.

I mentioned yesterday that Eva Habermann has been doing nude scenes for approximately the full duration of The Fun House. Roxane is approximately in the same category. Her nudity doesn’t date back to the 1990s, and she’s a bit younger than Habermann, but she has just about covered this entire millenniun (2001-2025).

Mesquida video

For reference, here she is in her first nude scene (Fat Girl, 2001). It looks like a different person!

Because Roxane is famous, I mentioned her first, but I actually buried the lede. Maria Wrobel was naked for several minutes of running time, albeit covered with dirt. Her character is supposed to be 20, but her baby face makes her appear to be about 15. She is actually 26!

Wrobel video

According to Nudografia, this is Wrobel’s nude debut.