NSFW! vintage male nudes from old Hollywood
Photographers started shooting male and female nudes soon after the invention of the camera. Following the introduction of moving film, a market developed for female erotica and even mainstream silent movies sometimes included flashes of female nudity.
Male nudity remained taboo though some directors stole a tactic straight from the playbook of the old Masters. Painters and sculptors cloaked their nudes in religion to escape censure and censorship. Likewise, Hollywood directors filmed biblical epics featuring cinematic muscle gods draped in flimsy loincloths.
Burt Lancaster
Burt Lancaster enjoyed a 45-year career in film and television. But before then he worked as a circus acrobat and according to rumour, posed for beefcake photos. He later starred in one of the most iconic movie scenes of all time, kissing Deborah Kerr as they rolled in the waves in From Here to Eternity.
Despite his rigged he-man persona, Burt Lancaster was a strong supporter of progressive political causes. He frequently supported racial and other minorities, attracting the attention of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI.
The FBI reputedly kept files on gay orgies attended by Burt and Rock Hudson in the 1950s. When Rock Hudson died of AIDS, Burt Lancaster read his friend’s last words at a Hollywood AIDS fundraiser.
After his death, Burt Lancaster’s family revealed his many extra-marital affairs included both male and female lovers.
Yul Brynner
Russian immigrant Yul Brynner barely spoke English when he arrived in America at the age of twenty. But in under two decades, he became one of the few people to ever win a Tony award and an Oscar. Both for his most memorable role as King Mongkut in The King and I.
But before he became one of the world’s most recognisable film stars, Yul Brynner took what work he could find. That included modelling nude for George Platt Lynes.
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
The story goes that when Dean Martins yacht sank off the coast of California, there as a ten mile liquor slick. ( He was an alcoholic )
Comedy duo Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis teamed up in the late forties and became America’s top-earning show business act. The two Hollywood superstars went their own ways after a decade together but each remained a reliable box office draw. Photos of the two straight men camping it up nude in a shower only emerged in the last few years with no explanation as to why. Obviously, this photo could not be used for publicity in the 1950s.
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