Girls in
My House in Umbria (2003)

1969 stands as the year that pop culture evolved from the mass grooviness of Woodstock and the far-out giant leap of the moon landing to the horror of the Manson Family murders and the Hells Angels stomping out flower power at Altamont.

It was also the year that Hollywood erupted with new creative freedom, emboldened by expanding societal mores and the new MPAA rating system.

Filmmakers could now dip into the palette of patently adult material, including coarse language, unflinching violence, and, most importantly, sex and nudity.

Let’s trip on back to 1969 and dig nine classic nude scenes from that headiest of daze gone by.

1. EASY RIDER
Toni Basil
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Toni strips full-frontally nude in a New Orleans cemetery while tripping on LSD.

Easy Rider is indisputably one of the hippie era’s ultimate artistic statements. Toni Basil’s “Hey Mickey!” video is one of the most indelible media images of the 1980s. How interesting that one cultural touchstone unwittingly begat another. On acid. Naked.

As We Count Down to the 81st Annual Academy Awards on February 22nd, Mr Skin Pays Tribute to the Twenty Actresses Who Took Home Oscar Gold for Films in Which They Flashed Flesh

If you're under the age of thirty, you probably know renowned British thespian Dame Maggie Smith from her role as Professor McGonagall in the Harry Potter series. But Maggie didn't always keep her English Tea & A hidden underneath those frumpy wizarding robes. In her prime, Maggie let one funbaggie flop onto the screen in California Suite. And wouldn't you know it, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences stood at attention and awarded her one erect little statue for her efforts.

Maggie showed off her mature mams only one other time, in 2003's My House in Umbria, but that role brought no Oscar gold. Maybe the Academy was just mad she waited so long to air out her golden globes once again.