# What was the first film with nudity that I/you saw? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 4, 2007, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486 "2007-03-04T00:21:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Full_Metal_Lotus)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/41 "2007-03-04T10:08:22Z")
in the early 70’s, my granny took my brother and I (aged 7-8, respectively) to see a "rocket science fiction movie. It was called Barbarella… She took us out of there during the flesh eating dolls scene… I think she was more upset by it than my bro and I were… regfards FML ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/42 "2007-03-04T13:46:30Z")
There were probably others before, but the first one I can remember was _Clash of the Titans_, when I was about 10. Then, as a teen in the 80’s, we had Cinemax. And there was much rejoicing. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/43 "2007-03-04T14:01:34Z")
1972?- Hammer Films’ _The Vampire Lovers_ - Ingrid Pitt as Carmella Karnstein romping about with her intended female victim, both topless. I was 10, my brother was 8. My parents took us to the drive-in to watch the latest vampire movie, thinking the R was just due to the horror. Uh-uh! So they kept offering us money to go get snacks but just that once, we didn’t want snacks! ---
**Author:** ![mambocrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@mambocrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mambocrow)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/44 "2007-03-04T15:36:02Z")
**Blowup**. Released in 1966 I think. Venessa Redgrave’s boobies (very pert they were). ---
**Author:** ![mikeargo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/858c86/32.png) [@mikeargo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikeargo)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/45 "2007-03-04T15:47:37Z")
The wedding night scene in **The Godfather** ---
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It must have been…1966, and Ursula Andress’s boobs in **The Blue Max**. I was a very impressed 11. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/47 "2007-03-04T15:58:01Z")
For me, it was **Rosemary’s Baby** - summer of '68. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/48 "2007-03-04T16:13:39Z")
Just guessing here, can’t even pick a decade, but probably some National Geographic (or the like) documentary about Africa with all those “long-breasted” women. As for “full frontal” there was probably something before it but the image of Harvey Keitel’s shortcomings from _The Piano_ is so etched in my mind that I can’t see him _in anything_ without a flashback to that scene. Let’s not even talk about the image Ned Beatty brings. It was just recently that I was able to see Hedy Lamarr’s scenes in _Ecstasy_ from the 30’s that created much stir. It was way too tame to be mentioned here. Oops, I did it. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/49 "2007-03-04T16:27:25Z")
[QUOTE=Labdad] For me, it was **Rosemary’s Baby** - summer of '68. [/QUOTE] Me too. Followed a few months later by **Romeo and Juliet**. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/50 "2007-03-04T18:01:38Z")
It was probably **White Lightning** in 1973. Magnificient boobage, if brief. I would have been 8 at the time… ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/51 "2007-03-04T21:25:08Z")
[QUOTE=kaylasdad99] 3) Barbra don’t show her boobies off for viewing by the movie-going public. [/QUOTE] She did have a nude scene in _The Owl and the Pussycat_ which was later edited out at her request, IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2007, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/52 "2007-03-05T00:25:55Z")
[QUOTE=kaylasdad99] Also Jenny Agutter, in _Logan’s Run_. It certainly made sense for Logan5 and Jessica 6 to get out of those sodden clothes in the subterranean ice cavern, and to put on the conveniently handy furs, but _I_ surely hadn’t been expecting to see it. [/QUOTE] Yeah, same here. I was 13-ish & my older brother took me to the movie. I remember him saying “well, I bet that was a first for you, huh?” Uhh…yup. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2007, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/53 "2007-03-05T00:28:41Z")
[QUOTE=koeeoaddi] Me too. Followed a few months later by **Romeo and Juliet**. [/QUOTE] My sister took me to see that. It’s the first time I saw onscreen nudity. Of course I was too young to think much of it, other than ‘Tee hee! They’re naked!’ ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2007, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/54 "2007-03-05T00:34:35Z")
“Magnum Force”, Clint Eastwoods sequel to “Dirty Harry” ---
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**The Pawnbroker** , 1965. A hooker is trying to entice Rod Steiger into upping the amount he’d loan for some item by taking off her top (it didn’t work). I’d seen lots of boobage in purloined _Playboy_s but this was the first pair I’d seen on the screen. In those pre-braless days I had no _idea_ boobs moved like that. ---
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[QUOTE=Baker] The movie was _The Hawaiians_. [/QUOTE] Mine was the 1966 [Hawaii](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060491), based on a different story line from the same James Michener novel, when I was too young to really appreciate it. (The first movie I remember being aroused by was _You Only Live Twice_. You know the scene I mean: Snip. Snip. Zzzzzip.) The first “real,” sexual nudity, as opposed to the innocent, faux-National Geographic nudity of _Hawaii_, would have been _Catch-22_, followed by _The Last Picture Show_. ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2007, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/57 "2007-03-05T03:52:30Z")
What? No love for **Mondo Cane**? I stayed after whatever the feature was that day just to see the trailer for it again because it contained a split second of African lady boobs. ---
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The earliest one I can remember is _Bram Stoker’s Dracula_. My mom let me see it because she thought it was “artistic”, which I exploited to watch numerous times. ---
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I am Curious Yellow-Swedish film of 1967 with lawsuits and all having to be settled before screening. ---
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