Just do a Google image search for “Joan Blondell nude” and make sure SafeSearch is off.
That’s what I did, and only found a million porn sites with the names of every female star ever, in tiny little type, followed by the word “nude.”
Finally, I found this just now: Definitely not work safe!
Is this the one, Rube? I think there’s a good possibility it’s a fake. First off, I couldn’t swear that’s Joan Blondell’s face. But even so, there’s something about the appearance of her face that makes me think it’s been pasted onto a different body. Also, the shaved pubes (which would, IMO, have been highly unusual in the 1930s or '40s) definitely look like airbrush work. (Of course, that’s not necessarily germane to the question of whether the rest of the picture is fake, but it suggests some degree of manipulation.)
But still, it’s certainly interesting from a film scholarship perspective. Does anyone know what the story behind the picture is supposed to be?
I didn’t check the not work-safe link, but what you describe sounds right, based on what I’ve seen in the past… I can’t swear it’s not fake. But it matches very closely the picture as it was described in an interview with Ms Blondell that I read many years ago, before the Net put these pictures everyplace. The interviewer was very, er, happy, about having seen the picture, and she laughed it off saying that she’d been distracted when she got a call on set and walked around nude. She certainly didn’t deny that the picture existed.
This would have been a long time ago, maybe 30 years (odd the things that stick in your mind), so from a film history perspective, her nudity has been a matter of interest for quite a while).
There is some brief footage from The Outlaw in The Aviator. If they’d given a few minutes to every starlet Howard Hughes was associated with, they wouldn’t have had time for anything else!
While we’re at it, don’t forget the cab driver (Joy Barlow) that hits on Bogie, as well as the smokin’ hottie cigarette and hatcheck girls (Shelby Payne & Lorraine Miller) at Eddie Mars’ club. The movie is funny, suspenseful, expertly-acted, and dripping with gorgeous women.
And has some of the best dialog ever put on the screen.
“She tried to sit in my lap while I was standing up.”
Bogart: “You’ve got a touch of class, but I don’t know how far you can go.”
Bacall: “A lot depends on who’s in the saddle.”
God, I love that film.
Was lucky enough to see it a few years ago in a cinema. It was great to see it with a big audience all laughing at the smart witty dialogue.
The woman is the bookshop is indeed stunning.
Yeah, never mind that even the original author couldn’t figure out the plot! 
Actually, in Son of Sinbad, Hughes DID give screen time to many of the babes he slept with in the picture. There were no less than 80 women cast in the film (40 of them were the Forty Daughters of the Forty Thieves). It was also an unusually HOT movie for its time, with lots of scantily clad dancing around – no nudity, of course.