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by DR. W. TENENOFF REICH
always be said that such naked and near-naked bathing scenes are part of the Hollywood “spectacle” tradition (Claudette Colbert, who played the Temptress of the Nile for the Cecil B. DeMille version, took a milk-bath onscreen). One can argue that producers, directors and scriptwriters persist in including such scenes in bigbudget epics; that studio heads insist their stars appear in them; that the movie-going public demands to see them; that no European showing of an Americanproduced film is successful without at least one episode in which a female star swims or bathes in the altogether.
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What makes a woman undress — altogether, completely— in public? What drives Elizabeth Taylor to take off her clothes and pose for breast-and-buttock-revealing still photographs? What term can we use to characterize Liz’ compulsion to bare herself to the camera (and to the world)? Is she “modern" or “immoral,” is she “emancipated” or “exhibitionistic?” What we are solely concerned with, for the purposes of this investigation, is her stripping and posing nude for Roddy McDowall, her oldtime friend and “Cleopatra” co-star. In short, stripping and posing for photos that appeared in the January issue of playboy Magazine. Justification can be made for her
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