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It’s a hell of an illusion.
Promoted from the comment area.
This is Kate Hepburn in a production of Antony and Cleopatra presented by the American Shakespeare Festival. It ran July 12 to July 17, 1960, at the Elizabethan Theatre in Stratford, Connecticut.
Robert Ryan played Marc Antony.
Thanks to the commenter for this link.
I don’t know anything about their personal lives, but some of these people don’t seem that bad. They don’t seem as bad as (for example) Alec Baldwin or Steven Seagal.
I would always rather read about the celebrities who are incredibly nice – Keanu Reeves, Hugh Jackman, Dolly Parton, the late President Jimmy Carter, Henry Winkler, the late Stan Musial …
Here I go again, with another obscure actress. I actually watched all of these films yesterday, and made all new clips. They are all in Blu-Ray quality except The Gay Deceivers, which is a DVD clip.
I haven’t thought about Jo Ann in decades, but in re-watching these films, I realized that she was a real babe, and although most of these films were awful, Julie did a good enough job in all of them. Her range was limited, but what she did, she did well.
1969 – The Gay Deceivers. (5.9 at IMDb. WAY overrated. It would be a weak episode of Three’s Company.) It’s a Vietnam-era comedy about two frat boys who pretend to be gay to avoid the draft. It’s filled with stale jokes and embarrassing stereotypes. Jo Ann was 19 or 20. She played the sister of one of the guys and tried to seduce the other. When the seduced guy couldn’t … er … cut the mustard, she started to suspect that the guy and her brother were really gay.
The two leads are two of the worst actors I’ve ever seen. Their mincing, while offensive, is much more natural than when they are being “themselves.”
The better actor of the two, Kevin Coughlin, died in an auto accident, at age 30.
I think Larry Casey is still alive, but I don’t know what he does now. His IMDb credits stopped more than 30 years ago.
1971 – The Beguiled (7.2 at IMDb). This Clint Eastwood film was the only one of the films that was watchable. “While recuperating in a Confederate girls’ boarding school, a Union soldier cons his way into each of the lonely women’s hearts, causing them to turn on each other, and eventually, on him.” Jo Ann, now about 22, plays one of the lonely women. It’s a film with no appealing characters, too little action, and perhaps too much psychological depth. Director Don Siegel was a frequent Eastwood collaborator in that era.They did five films together including Dirty Harry. This movie is competent, but I’d rather watch the Siegel/Eastwood shoot-em-ups than this arty, emotional stuff. Eastwood usually plays an anti-hero, but in this one he just plays a bitter and sometimes whiny jerk.
1971 – The Sporting Club. (5.2 at IMDb) An incoherent, chaotic film about a sociopath who just wants to destabilize and destroy the Centennial Club, a summer sporting resort for snooty upper-class Michigan families. The Thomas McGuane novel was probably unfilmable, but in 1971, anything anti-establishment could be pitched and sold. I did enjoy seeing Jack Warden playing his usual character, reminding me of “Normie, Normie, Normie. Hockey, Normie.”
Camera operator John Courtland worked on Bullitt, Getting Straight, Papillon and the first Superman film. He was good. Better than good. His talent was wasted here, but the camera work is technically perfect. The film looks absolutely beautiful in Blu-Ray. Most important to us, Jo Anne’s upper body looks spectacular in perfect lighting, even in a night scene.
1971 – Based on two nude scenes in 1971, the rabbit mag chose her as one of the highlights of “Sex in Cinema, 1971”:
1974 – Act of Vengeance. (5.5 at IMDb) Original name: The Rape Squad. A group of women who have been victims of rape form a club to learn martial arts and take vigilante revenge on rapists and perverts who have avoided the grasp of the law. Pure amateur hour. Jo Ann is the only one of the women who can deliver a line naturally, but there’s a lot of nudity to hold your attention.
1982 – Deadly Games (4.1 at IMDb.) Just a typical 1980s slasher flick. “A woman falls to her death after getting attacked by a black-clad assailant. Her sister arrives in town and starts dating a police detective, who’s friends with a strange movie theater curator, as other women fall prey to the killer.”
As you’ll see in the film clips, Jo Ann’s best nudity was almost impossible to see. It was a peeping tom sequence and they reduced the image down to show it in the peeper’s eye.
As you can see, they did go to the trouble of getting her naked (or rather getting her character naked, but I don’t know whether it’s Jo Ann). Sadly, they totally wimped out on sharing it.
There was some additional nudity:
There was also a shower scene behind frosted glass that is not pictured here, but is included in the film clips.
According to Google image search, this is from 2017 and took place in Philadelphia.
Given the internet’s reliability ratio, it could just as likely be Perth in 2010, or Beirut in 1980.
OK, maybe not Beirut.
That’s a DS headline, not mine, and it’s his pictorial.
I just want to add that it’s especially important for perverts to have swimwear, because we can’t have them running around naked. They should wear those Muslim Burkini swimsuits that cover everything.
From the comments:
“Speaking of long term nudity, I just came across an indication that Dame Helen Mirren may have appeared nude in a 1965 stage production of Antony and Cleopatra.”
Scoop’s note:
That’s new to me. Where did you get that information? That picture shows nothing, and while Britain is pretty liberal about such matters, that performance was staged by the National Youth Theater in 1965, which doesn’t seem like a likely source for stage nudity.
Here is what AI says, for what it’s worth:
There is no record of Helen Mirren being topless in the 1965 production of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. She began her career at the age of 20 with this role, which led to an extraordinary career.
This site has lots of pics from that production: on stage, backstage, promotional, etc.
German drama, filmed in Spain’s Canary Islands, in English!
Very cosmopolitan.
Islands tells the story of Tom, a one-time tennis pro who, years ago, washed up on the holiday island of Fuerteventura. Now he’s the coach at a hotel resort, hitting countless balls over the net to tourists who come to escape their everyday lives. Living an endless summer, Tom fills the emptiness inside with booze and brief affairs. He’s still kidding himself that he’s in paradise, but it is beginning to dawn on him that he’s wound up in hell. When he crosses paths with a particular tourist family, it seems he’s found an escape of his own
(I have not seen this film. It sounds like a lost season of The White Lotus!)
Could use more nudity!
Johnny Moronic’s film clips are here
