# Your first movie nudity **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 1, 2009, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402 "2009-06-01T20:10:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![wonderlust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonderlust/32/7237_2.png) [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/61 "2009-06-02T17:07:53Z")
[Goldfinger](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058150/), 1964, in a theatre with my parents. She was painted all gold, does that count? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/62 "2009-06-02T17:11:41Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I’m not sure what the first female nudity I saw was, but the first I can recall was **The Hawaiians** , the second movie to be based on James Michener’s novel _Hawaii_. Me too! This was the first movie nudity I saw, the Japanese bath scene, full frontal for the girl. First male nudity was the bare butt of one of the male actors in _The Andromeda Strain_(the original movie) It was the scene where the scientists are being put through a very thorough sterilization procedure. ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/63 "2009-06-02T17:22:22Z")
In Toronto, back before there was a City-TV, even back before there was a channel 57, there was a channel 79. And channel 79 was a bit “blue” round about midnight on a Saturday. I’d guess my first nudity came from there. I’m thinking **Yvette Mimieux** in _Jackson County Jail_ or something similar. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/64 "2009-06-02T17:30:45Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > **Airplane!** Age 14, in the theater, with my parents sitting next to me. Same here, except I was 12 and there was a Swiss woman with us. Full frontal? Goldie Hawn in _Wildcats_ (1986), unless JLC was full frontal in _Trading Places_. Can’t really tell from the OP. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/65 "2009-06-02T18:06:45Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > JLC was full frontal in _Trading Places_. Can’t really tell from the OP. Nope. Semi-frontal. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/66 "2009-06-02T20:04:40Z")
My Dad actually let me see “Planet of the Apes” in 1969, when I was just 8 years old. So, Charlton Heston’s the first movie star I ever saw naked on screen. ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/67 "2009-06-02T21:58:24Z")
Boobies would have been Hitchcock’s **Frenzy**. I was around 6. Sausage was either the Native American shapeshifter guy in **Wolfen** or Graham Chapman in **Monty Python’s Life of Brian** (I didn’t see it on the original release, but at a midnight screening sometime in the early 1980s) Female full frontal was probably some scrambled over-the-air premium channel softcore film. I vaguely remember a nude scene in **Excalibur** with Lancelot and Guinevere, but I can’t remember if it was full frontal or not. ---
**Author:** ![Silophant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Silophant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silophant)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/68 "2009-06-03T02:15:54Z")
> [@fusoya](#): > > it had to be the random naked guy laying down in the asylum at the beginning of Amadeus. I had forgotten about that. That would have been it for me. The place? Fifth grade band. Apparently the teacher had forgotten about that part. Caused a minor uproar. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/69 "2009-06-03T09:58:11Z")
My parents never censored me in terms of what movies I could see, and brought me to whatever R rated movies they went to so there’s probably a long list of possible candidates. Anything I wasn’t mature enough to understand just went over my head. The two movies that I didn’t blink an eye at as a kid but thinking about the content now makes me wonder what I thought was going on when I first saw it were “Summer Lovers” for sexual situations (a threesome) and “Fanny and Alexander” mature themes (abusive relationship). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Seventh\_Deadly\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6bbea6/32.png) [@The\_Seventh\_Deadly\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Seventh_Deadly_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/70 "2009-06-03T10:14:44Z")
God help me, I think it was \*A Clockwork Orange \*when I was 5 or 6. My parents saw it at the drive-in with me in the back seat. I guess they didn’t know what to expect. After about 15 minutes my mom told me to stop watching and lie down and go to sleep; I was young enough that I obliged. Honestly, I don’t feel particularly scarred, though for several years I thought there was supposed to be something “dirty” about the song “Singin’ In The Rain.” ---
**Author:** ![Carmady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@Carmady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carmady)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/71 "2009-06-03T10:46:01Z")
Doc Hollywood. My parents were strict on this type of thing, but it was rated PG-13. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2009, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/72 "2009-06-03T12:33:53Z")
> [@thetruewheel](#): > > God help me, I think it was \*A Clockwork Orange \*when I was 5 or 6. My parents saw it at the drive-in with me in the back seat. I guess they didn’t know what to expect. After about 15 minutes my mom told me to stop watching and lie down and go to sleep; I was young enough that I obliged. > > Honestly, I don’t feel particularly scarred, though for several years I thought there was supposed to be something “dirty” about the song “Singin’ In The Rain.” That’s one of my three favorite movies- I saw it when in college. I can’t imagine seeing it at 5 or 6!:eek::eek::eek: As for my answer to the OP, I’ve told the story so many times here that I’m gonna see if someone can name the film. One clue- Hammer Studios. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/73 "2009-06-03T13:39:59Z")
I don’t know who the woman was but the movie was definitely [Vampira](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071938/) which was known as “Old Dracula” when I saw it and was a double feature with Young Frankenstein. How David Niven ended up starring in it, I’ll never know. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/74 "2009-06-03T14:41:28Z")
It may have been Deathwish. I saw it in the drivein and I was pretty young. If I saw any before that I don’t remember. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/75 "2009-06-03T15:51:35Z")
I probably saw some bewbs before this, but the first one I remember is Patsy Kensit from Lethal Weapon 2. Damn, but she was a babe. ---
**Author:** ![Scruff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Scruff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruff)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/76 "2009-06-04T06:33:05Z")
I saw [Emmanuelle](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071464/) in a cnema in Leicester Square somewhere around the summer of 1976. I’d just finished University and had been in the city for a job interview. First nudity. First porn film. Oooh, I felt so wicked. :smack: And yes, I am that old :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Promethea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Promethea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Promethea)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/77 "2009-06-04T08:13:49Z")
_Blame It On Rio._ Sex comedy with Micahel Caine and, from checking IMDB, a very young Demi Moore. From distant memory, the two young female leads were naked for long stretches of the film. I’m still surprised nan didn’t diplomatically wonder if there just might have been someting more suitable on for us to watch. I remember thinking vaguely “are they allowed to SHOW this on tv?” ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/78 "2009-06-04T09:26:00Z")
Since you didn’t specify LIVE ACTION nudity, the first boobs I remember seeing in a movie were in [Grendel Grendel Grendel](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082478/) - and were something of a shock. I would have been…maybe 7 or 8 when I saw it, on TV. Non-cartoon…it was most likely in a horror film…probably [Lifeforce](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089489/). ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/79 "2009-06-04T16:46:26Z")
Death Race 2000, starring the late David Carradine. ---
**Author:** ![Drum\_God](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drum_god/32/44_2.png) [@Drum\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drum_God)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402/80 "2009-06-04T18:02:20Z")
I can’t think of the first female nudity, but I do remember the first really, really unexpected nudity. The first was on a weekday morning during NBC’s _The Today Show_. They were doing a story about breast cancer and self-examination. I wasn’t really paying attention, but then ooooooh boy. :eek: Nearly choked on my Rice Krispies! I was very interested in the _The Today Show_ for a long while after that. Later, in ninth grade English Lit, we were watching the Franco Zeffirelli version of _Romeo and Juliet_. I don’t think that was my first movie nudity, but it was nudity AT SCHOOL! It wasn’t Lisa’s boobs (the hottie who sat next to me), but it was more boobs than I was used to seeing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-first-movie-nudity/498402.md?page=5)