Girls in
The Partridge Family (1970-1974)

A weekly look back at celebrity nudity happenings of note from the earliest days of famous females to today’s hottest starlets.

Learn all about skincredible events that happened during the week of October 24 through November 1, including: Cheryl “Rainbeaux” Smith exits the field, Kim Kardashian butts into Playboy, Susan Dey lets her Partridge pair free in Looker, naked Heather Graham skates throughout Boogie Nights, and Larry Flynt hustles for the first time.

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October 25, 2002
Cheerleader-movie icon Cheryl “Rainbeaux” Smith dies.

After a string of remarkable exploitation films such as The Swinging Cheerleaders (1974), The Pom Pom Girls (1976), Massacre at Central High (1976), and The Incredible Melting Man (1977), Cheryl “Rainbeaux” Smith ruled as the most singularly beguiling starlet of the drive-in era.

Then, when Cheryl vanished in 1982, she became one of cinema’s most enigmatic figures, prompting fans to wonder for decades what became of their beloved Rainbeaux.

Tragically, news of Ms. Smith succumbing to liver disease hit just as Synapse Films began work on a special-edition DVD of one of her most sought-after titles, Lemora (1973).

Thanks to her legion of devotees, though, the legacy of Cheryl “Rainbeaux” Smith lives on. Rah-rah-raw, forevermore.

Read about the rest of this week's historical events after the cut.

This day in 1977 saw the release of major-studio sexfest First Love, directed by Joan Darling, who had previously helmed TV shows like Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, and featuring nudity from former Partridge Family fox and future LA Law babe Susan Dey and the impossibly sultry Bevery D’Angelo.

Based on a short story by Harold Brodkey, First Love stars The Greatest American Hero’s William Katt as a naive college student learning about love and sex for the first time from Susan and Beverly to the soft strains of the great Cat Stevens.

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Writer-director Michael Crichton’s Looker initially tanked at the box office but, courtesy of the early 1980s boom in cable TV and home video, this sex-drenched, PG-rated sci-fi parable ultimately evolved into a cult classic.

That Looker showcases Susan Dey nude -- smack between her stints on The Partridge Family and L.A. Law -- has much to do with Looker’s on-going place in the hearts, minds, and other organs of the ’80s generation.

Looker first turned up in theaters on this date in 1981.

Click the pic to see Susan Dey nude.