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Back in the early years of Hollywood, a lot of young women posed in what were called "Art" magazines. Usually "Nude nymphs in the woods" kind of shots. Mary Philbin was one such model turned actress. But I just stumbled upon this image on Ebay. Is the woman in the left shot not a young nude Myrna Loy? Look at those pursey lips and that little nose, and of course those eyes! What does everyone else think?

With next to no hesitation I'd say it is indeed Myrna Loy. Probably anytime from around 1921-1926 or so, although the earlier end of that scale puts her at just 16 years of age. There is simply no mistaking that facial structure.

Compare the pic below. Apologies for the lousy scan, but it is a small image.

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Charles
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Did you actually say, "Look at those pursey lips?"
My love of Myrna Loy continues to grow!
Do you have a close up of her ear whorl?Today is only Yesterday's Tomorrow
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I just did some googling on her modeling career. Turns out she modeled semi nude for a statue that was "erected" outside of her high school in Venice CA. It's apparently seen in the film GREASE. It no longer stands as it was vandalized and the headless body sits somewhere on the school grounds for much needed repair. Seeing as her first film was around 1925 when she was 20, I would date this photo somewhere around then. The mag from which its from was not dated. She was one beautiful woman!
I seem to recall reading that she did some work as a dancer for DeMille's 1923 Ten Commandments . Some sort of intro pieces at any rate. That then resulted in her, and another dancer friend, doing some artful photo modelling at about the same time. I'll have to check her autobiography, when I'm at home, for more details.Cheers,
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>> Mary Philbin was one such model turned actress. <<

are there any pictures of this available?
And there are those Vargas paintings of nude actresses from the 1920s.
It's very likely to be Myrna Loy; there's a nude statue of her in front of Santa Monica High School, and it looks something like that photo. The statue was finally enclosed in a fence or something, as it was repeatedly vandalized. Says Leonard Maltin.
I stand corrected on the 1923 DeMille Ten Commandments appearance. What she did was dance at the Egyptian Theatre for a prologue to the 1923 DeMille Ten Commandments . She also danced in a prologue preceding Douglas Fairbanks' The Thief of Bagdad which resulted in pictures of some the dancers being put on display in the courtyard of the theatre. Portrait photographer Henry Waxman selected three of the girls for the photos, with Myrna amongst them. In the book Myrna Loy: Being and Becoming by James Kotsilibas-Davis & Myrna Loy, she writes:

"At his studio on Sunset he photographed the other girls first. Then he started on me. He Went crazy. He just kept shooting pictures - long shots, close-ups, portraits, art studies- all through the night."

Art studies? Doesn't mean nudes by any stretch, but it was enlargements of Myrna laying around Waxman's studio that drew the eye of Valentino...

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Here's Loy as a chorus girl in THE JAZZ SINGER (this still is currently up for bid on ebay):

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This thread reminds me that years ago I think I saw a poster of Greta Garbo nude. It was for sale as a poster at one of the shops on the Universal City Walk. I told people about it after the fact and they said that they weren't aware of any Garbo nudes. I've tried to find a reference to them on a couple of occasions with no luck.

But, hey, there's always Maria Ouspenskaya!
I think the pic on the left is definitely her (top of this page), but not the one on the right. Uniquely beautiful. Most people fall into physical 'types', but I cant think of anybody who looked like Myrna Loy. Even in the 40s when she was older I cant imagine any healthy hetero male that wouldnt want some of that...
I don't think the girl on the right at the top is supposed to be the same girl as on the left (Loy).

It's more likely Joan Blondell

"Snips and snails and poppydoc tails...."
I think Joan Blondell had bigger, uh, you know...thingies.
There was a book that turned up used in every store around here for years and years, MOVIE STARS IN BATHTUBS. What I keep hoping for is NAKED MOVIE STARS. There were some magazines called "Celebrity Skin," but they weren't the celebrities I wanted to see naked. Although I am not gay, I was impressed by a nude photo of a young Roddy McDowall that's out there in the great wide web world; gave a new meaning to his first name.

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'Wouldn't you know, the kid they pick to play tramps is the only good girl in Hollywood.' - John Ford, 1929
6th June 1932: Myrna Loy plays the evil Fah Lo See in The Mask of Fu Manchu , directed by Charles Brabin and Charles Vidor for MGM. (Photo by Clarence Sinclair Bull)
Myrna Loy, born Myrna Adele Williams on August 2, 1905 in Helena, Montana, was only thirteen when her father died of influenza in 1918. Her family subsequently moved to Los Angeles and already learning to dance it wasn’t long before she also took up acting. In 1923 she started dancing at Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre and after being noticed by Rudolph Valentino and his wife Natacha Rambova they helped her get her first role (albeit uncredited) in the 1925 film What Price Beauty? In the same year she appeared in Pretty Ladies along with Joan Crawford. She became one of the few stars who appeared in silent movies and make a successful transition into the sound era. Although in most of her early films she played what were called ‘exotic’ roles including Ham and Eggs at the Front (1927) where she literally blacked up. Her last role in this vein was when she played Fah Lo See in the Mask of Fu Manchu (1932). By this point she was more than fed up being typecast in these roles. The film critic Farran Smith Nehme wrote of when Loy initially read the script:
Immediately after Thirteen Women , Loy did The Mask of Fu Manchu , and found herself confronted with a script that asked her to whip a man “while uttering gleefully suggestive sounds.” She’d had it with this sort of stuff, and furthermore she’d been reading Freud and picked up a thing or two. She went to producer Hunt Stromberg and refused to film it: “I’ve done a lot of terrible things in films, but this girl’s a sadistic nymphomaniac.” Stromberg said, “What’s that?”, which lack of familiarity with less-conventional sexuality makes you wonder how Hunt Stromberg ever got anywhere as a Hollywood producer, but never mind. Loy replied, “Well, you better find out, because that’s what she is and I won’t play her that way.” Studio contracts being what they were, she did play her that way, but she succeeded in getting Stromberg to trim some excesses. “She wasn’t Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,” said Miss Loy, “but, as I remember, she just watched while others did the whipping.”
Only two years later she was chosen to play along side William Powell in The Thin Man . Myrna Loy once said that “I never enjoyed my work more than when I worked with William Powell. He was a brilliant actor, a delightful companion, a great friend and, above all, a true gentleman.” Director W. S. Van Dyke chose Loy after he detected a wit and sense of humor at a Hollywood party that her previous films had not revealed. Although Louis B. Mayer initially thought her unsuitable, Van Dyke insisted and the film went on to become one of the year’s biggest hits – even nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Loy received excellent reviews and was acclaimed for her comedic skills. William Powell and Myrna Loy became one of Hollywood’s most popular screen couples and appeared in 14 films together. Loy later referred to The Thin Man as the film:
That finally made me … after more than 80 films.” . . . Nora had a gorgeous sense of humor; she appreciated the distinctive grace of her husband’s wit. She laughed . . . at him and with him when he was funny. What’s more, she laughed at herself. Besides having tolerance, she was a good guy. She was courageous and interested in living and she enjoyed doing all the things she did. You understand, she had a good time, always.
According to the film critic Philip French her greatest performance came in William Wyler’s The Best Years of our Lives (1946), about returning war veterans. Her scenes with husband Fredric March – putting him to bed after a drunken reunion, discussing the nature of what makes a marriage survive with their daughter – constitute a masterclass in screen acting.
During World War Two Loy raised millions of dollars in war bonds and worked tirelessly for the Red Cross. A friend of Eleanor Roosevelt she became active in liberal politics and an unabashed supporter of the Civil Rights Movement. She also spoke out against the House Un-American Activities Committee.
By the time Loy died in 1993, at the age of 88, and two years after being awarded an honorary Oscar she had appeared in an incredible 129 movies.
Myrna Loy from I Love you Again in which she starred with William Powell – 1940 .
9th May 1934: Myrna Loy (1905 – 1993) and William Powell (1892 – 1984) play sleuthing couple Nick and Nora Charles in ‘The Thin Man’, directed by W S Van Dyke.
1933: Hollywood actress Myrna Loy (1905 – 1993) luxuriates in a sunken bath with the help of her female attendants, in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production ‘The Barbarian’.
25th April 1934: Myrna Loy (1905 – 1993) and William Powell (1892 – 1984) play sleuthing couple Nick and Nora Charles in ‘The Thin Man’, directed by W S Van Dyke. In this scene Nick practises his aim using his feet to steady the muzzle of the gun.
Myrna Loy from When Ladies Meet (1933) – “You know me. I’m the girl who writes books, very smart books about modern people, very smart people. I know exactly how everybody feels, exactly what everybody’s thinking. That’s how smart I am! I couldn’t be fooled. I know all the jokes. Even when they’re on me.”
22nd April 1934: W S Van Dyke (1889 – 1943) directs actors Myrna Loy (1905 – 1993) and William Powell (1892 – 1984) in the crime comedy ‘The Thin Man’.
19th April 1934: Actors Maureen O’Sullivan (far left), William Powell (next left), Myrna Loy (second from the right) and Ronald Colman (far right) on the set of ‘The Thin Man’ with the director, W. S. Van Dyke.
1933: Myrna Loy playing a successful novelist who falls in love with her married publisher, with Ann Harding and Alice Brady in ‘ When Ladies Meet.’ Title: When Ladies Meet Studio: MGM Director: Robert Z Leonard
Myrna Loy from Mask of Fu Manchu – 1932
1932: American actress Myrna Loy as Fah So Lee in ‘The Mask Of Fu Manchu’, posing against a decorative screen. The film was directed by Charles Brabin and Charles Vidor for MGM.
Alice White and Myrna Loy in The Naughty Flirt (1931)
Myrna Loy – by George Hurrell 1932.
Myrna Loy on the cover of Screen Play
Myrna Loy from The Barbarian aka A Night in Cairo (1933) Loy wrote of this scene in her brilliant autobiography Being and Becoming : “After I was safely submerged in a sunken marble tub, they scattered rose petals on the water, stationing men to keep them circulating with long, toothless rakes. They keep pushing those rose petals closer and closer to cover me–somewhat overzealously, it seemed. I looked up and saw a ring of familiar faces, Culver City friends and neighbors who worked in the studio. Unaware that I wore flesh-toned garments, they were diligently trying to protect the virtue of a local girl. It was so sweet, but didn’t work. Some magazine photographer got in, took a picture that made me look stark naked, and syndicated it all over the world.”
Myrna Loy from Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Myrna Loy from the Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
1932: Myrna Loy (1905 – 1993) looks up at Charles Ruggles (1886 – 1970), the American character comedian in a scene from ‘Love Me Tonight’, directed by Rouben Mamoulian for Paramount.
circa 1925: Myrna Loy (1905 – 1993), the American leading lady who was awarded an Oscar in 1991 for her lifetime achievements. She is wearing a lacquered wig created by Dermott of London and called ‘Speakeasy’.
The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer (1947)
Ham and Eggs at the Front Myrna Loy – In her autobiography Being and Becoming Loy wrote about her ‘exotic’ roles in her early movies and wrote of her appearance in Ham and Eggs at the Front as ‘shameful’: “But these exotica started to predominate. My bit as a mulatto in The Heart of Maryland led to a role that I’m very much ashamed of. Zanuck wrote Ham and Eggs at the Front , a blackface parody of What Price Glory? casting me as a spy. How could I ever have put on blackface? When I think of it now, it horrifies me. Well, our awareness broadens, thank God! It was a tasteless slapstick comedy that I mercifully recall very little about.”
Loy and Tyrone Power in The Rains Came (1939)
Venice High School – Fountain of Education – The statue was modelled by Myrna Williams in 1922. In the opening scenes of Grease you can see the statue of Myrna Loy in front of “ Rydell High ” when John Travolta meets up with his buddies following their summer vacation (just as the movie’s cartoon credits fade into an actual shot of the high school).
Myrna Loy (right) and her cousin, Laura Belle Wilder, age six. This photo was taken on the porch of her grandmother’s home.
Myrna Loy from So Goes My Love (1946)
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Nudity
whether in glimpses, through clothes, in silhouette or in the distance was
strictly banned by the 1930 Motion Picture Production Code. According to the
code nudity in any form was “immoral” and should be completely avoided. Despite
this, Pre-code films are full of it. Instead of straight “in fact” nudity,
directors became sneaky but attempting to make the nudity tantalisingly quick
or part of the plot. Several actresses, like Jean Harlow and Norma Shearer
created screen legends based on what they or didn’t wear. Thankfully, this
clever film making has been preserved and audiences today can view scenes that
Joseph Breen and code makers would later ban from cinemas for over fifty years.
Let’s take a look at the methods this generation of Hollywood directors,
writers, cinematographers and actors used to bypass the code:

Since silent
films and the glorious Gloria Swanson, directors have been using swimming and
bathing scenes as a source of decadence and undue exposure. Surprisingly,
unlike other forms of Pre-code nudity, several male actors get into the act.

3. Indecent or undue
exposure is forbidden.

1) Tarzan
and his Mate (1934) and Bird of
Paradise (1933): Both these films include extensive nude swimming scenes
with both Maureen O’Sullivan (or her b
María Gabriela De Faría Sexy
Jolene Blalock Mr Skin
Alica Vikander Nude

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