The year was 1932. The infamous party-pooping Hays Code would not be enforced for another year, leaving Hollywood some time to show bare breasts and scantily clad ladies before they were threatened to stop by this restrictive censorship code. Cecil B. DeMille not only wanted to give the screen some hot skin action, he also wanted to give it a closeup.
His Roman epic The Sign of the Cross was supposed to be about EmperorNero's last days, but we were focused on comedic cutie Claudette Colbert's seductive role as Poppaea because her boobs are Poppaea-in' out of above the water in a bathtub scene.
Claudette left nude scenes behind to star in playful romantic comedies like It Happened One Night and The Palm Beach Story, but she continued to seduce us with those big French eyes.
It would be unfair to talk about The Sign of the Cross without mentioning another sexy siren of the black-and-white era. Sally Rand shows up all tied up with flowers covering her good bits. It's a kinky sight for our modern eyes to see this pin-up beauty tied up with flowers covering her boobs. She leaves us praying for more.
Sally is much more famous for herperformance as Lady Godiva at the Chicago World's Fair in 1933 which got her arrested four times in one day. She was arrested several more times around the country for her famous fan dances (watch one here). We appreciate this striptease seductress for all her fine work in skinemaand for Claudette's foray into showing her black-and-white rack.
