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Jeremy (1973) Some controversy was caused by the nude sex scene between Robby Benson and Glynnis O'Connor, who were both 16 years old and thus minors at the time of filming. The scene, filmed by Joseph Brooks before Arthur Barron replaced him as director, was recalled by Benson in his autobiography 'I'm Not Dead... Yet!'. "The day we shot the scene, Brooks said, 'Okay- time to get undressed.' I was still remarkably shy, even after my 'singing lessons.' We both took off our clothes and stared at each other, scared, in our underwear. 'You're in your underwear!' Brooks barked. 'I said take off your clothes! It's a nude scene. You're making love for the first time!' There were no social workers on the set, no parents, no SAG rules or representatives- no supervision of minors whatsoever. To be a child working in NewYork at that time, all they needed was a permit from City Hall. I called home. My mom and dad conferred and decided 'if I was okay with it, they were too.' They really did trust me. Unfortunately, they also trusted Joe Brooks and the people making this film. So, off came the underwear. It was... traumatic. I tried to use my body to shield Glynnis from the eyes of all the set's lookie-loos. Suddenly Joe Brooks yelled 'Cut!' during our naked onscreen kiss. 'Robby, you don't know how to kiss a girl- let me show you,' and the next thing I knew he was kissing an obviously uncomfortable Glynnis. Creepy? Actually life changing. From that moment on I did not see Glynnis O'Connor as an actor anymore; I saw her as someone I had to protect, heart and soul, " Benson wrote. https://books.google.com/books?id=awqgsyBUDkAC&pg=PT34 2010 added: 2024 November, 9
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Rivals (1972) In her blog, Jeanne Tanzy Williams talked about her nude scene: "In my role as Mary the babysitter I had a topless scene with young Scott Jacoby. It was quite an innocent scene between two young kids discovering the excitement and sexuality of their little bodies. The day of the shoot for that scene I was very scarred. So much so that on the first take when I had to drop my dress and take off my tiny trainers bra, I fainted dead on the floor. It was, of course, a closed set, meaning no one but actively needed crew would be there. But of course the crew that remained, i.e., camera man, boom operator, director, script girl, lighting men, etc., etc. was quite enough to make me feel, well.... strange to say the least! After I came too... the camera man admitted to having no film in the camera for that first take. Guess he instinctively knew it would be a wash. By the end of that days shoot I was pretty relaxed on set even in my nudity and actually traded jokes with the crew." http://broadwaybaby61.blogspot.com/2009/12/breaking-into-film-industry.html 2009 December added: 2024 November, 9
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Non commettere atti impuri (1972) In the scene where Maria Teresa undresses in front of her uncle, the 16-year-old Simonetta Stefanelli is shown completely naked from behind and then, when she turns around, she is only seen from the waist up. But in a photo on the set Stefanelli is shown full frontally nude. Director Giulio Petroni explained that Stefanelli was "shy and adamant about taking her clothes off. She has a scene in which she is fully nude but I was clear from the start, before anybody signed anything, about what would be shown and that there wouldn't be any surprises." https://books.google.it/books?id=Ss2qDwAAQBAJ 2019 added: 2024 November, 9
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Non si sevizia un paperino (1972) Lucio Fulci was arrested on child endangerment grounds due to the infamous scene where a fully nude Patrizia (Barbara Bouchet) flirts with the underage Michele (Marcello Tamborra). The charges were dropped when Fulci explained that the actors' close-ups were filmed separately, and that the shot of Michele walking towards Patrizia with a pitcher and glass of orange juice was achieved by having an adult dwarf actor, Domenico Semeraro, stand in for Tamborra (if you look carefully, you will notice how different Semeraro's facial structure is from Tamborra's). https://books.google.it/books?id=Oa4ZDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT224 2016 added: 2024 November, 9
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The Godfather (1972) Simonetta Stefanelli, who played Michael Corleone's first wife, Apollonia, was only 16 during filming, including her topless scene. "I had done one in another film," she said at the time. "I don't really like to do it, but if the role calls for it, I will not refuse." https://eu.burlingtoncountytimes.com/story/entertainment/local/2012/03/20/godfather-turns-40/17402138007/ 2012 March, 20 added: 2024 November, 9
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The Possession of Joel Delaney (1972) In an Oct 30, 2020 interview on the "Let's Talk Jaws!" YouTube page, at 20:00, actor David Elliott discusses the controversial scene at the end of the movie at the beach house. He said that working on the movie cost him thousands of Dollars in therapy. He says the whole table scene was not in the original script when he accepted the part of Peter Benson in the movie. He said most of the movie was shot, and then during the last two weeks of shooting they went out to Amagansett, Long Island to a house and the script was rewritten to include the scene requiring him to strip and dance naked on a table and walk naked to the sliding glass door. He says that his mother, who was supposed to be his guardian, was like "sure, fine, whatever." when asked about giving permission for him to film the scene with the revisions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdcVpaFDmrA 2020 October, 30 added: 2024 November, 9
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Che? (1972) In 2017 Renate Langer accused Roman Polanski of raping her in 1972, when she was 15, just before and during the filming of this movie. Langer said she met Polanski when she worked for a modeling agency, and he was interested in casting her in a movie. When she visited him in the Swiss village Gstaad, she said he had sex with her in his home, despite her protests. About a month later, Langer told the Times, he called to apologize and offered her a small role in his 1972 movie 'Che?' (where she has a nude scene). While on set of 'Che?', Langer said Polanski raped her a second time, despite her efforts to defend herself with a bottle of wine and a bottle of perfume. https://www.vulture.com/2017/10/roman-polanski-rape-accusation-renate-langer.html 2017 October, 3 added: 2024 November, 9
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Mio caro assassino (1972) Leoni and Valerii reshaped the script, with particular attention given to the psychological examination of the characters, such as little Stefania's mother, who sinks into madness after the loss of her girl, or the pedophile uncle, completely rewritten in the process. “It was a character that you could not tell what he was in the film for, so we told ourselves, 'Either we take it out of the film or we develop it'. And we had the idea of the naked little girl that appears at the door of his studio during the commissioner's visit...” (from book "Tonino Valerii: The Films") https://books.google.com/books?id=mtLIDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA66 2016 added: 2024 November, 9
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The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971) Actor Antony Ainley, who plays a preacher seduced by Linda Hayden's character, once said in an interview "When it came to doing the nude scene where Angel (Hayden) comes into the rectory at night and disrobes this was done at least three times and Linda was spot on with every take...she was a total professional with a refined sense of the erotic unusual for her age...I believe she was only 17 at the time." https://web.archive.org/web/20090704163014/http://www.acidemic.com/id92.html 2009 added: 2024 November, 9
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Un posto ideale per uccidere (1971) For the main role, Umberto Lenzi wanted Anna Moffo, a very attractive opera singer who in those years had embarked on the road to cinema. Moffo accepted, at first, but later backed out, just a few days before the start of filming. So Irene Papas was chosen, a very good actress who, however, immediately vetoed any nudity. "I accepted Irene Papas - explained Lenzi - hoping that she would let me convince her to film at least some of the more daring scenes, leaving the more racy ones to a body double, but I found myself up against a wall". If he can't push with the mature woman, he will push with the young girl - thinks the director - especially since a radiant and already very busty Ornella Muti was chosen for the part. But life wasn't easy with her either: "Muti was stupendous, but when the film was made, she was seventeen and a half years old and it was impossible to make her undress. I tried, but once, after showing half a breast, she burst into tears and I had to give up. Moreover, she had a very jealous boyfriend and a mother who was always watching over her". So it was Antonia Santilli, an aspiring actress who had ended up on the set by chance as the girlfriend of the director of photography Alfio Contini, who lent her body for all the spicy scenes of the film, acting as stand-in for both Ornella Muti and Irene Papas. https://www.cgtv.it/news/un-posto-ideale-per-uccidere-speciale-nocturno/ 2017 February, 8 added: 2024 November, 9
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