Who Me? Ninja!

Warning: Before you proceed, this is a little like watching your great grand mum in the buff. So viewer discretion is advised.

Hedy Lamarr, an Austrian actress went commando in a scene from Extasis, a 1933 Czech flick. She invariably made entertainment history by being the first celebrity to show off her assets in a film. The film created so much ruckus, in some circles it’s believed to have sparked off WWII. Okay that’s not true, but Hedy sure was a bomb in her time.

Here’s a quick run through of the events that followed the release of the film.

It was banned in Germany, because Hedy was a Jew. Though the truth could just as well be that it made the Nazi boys all tingly, and they’d forget to heil the Fuhrer.

Pope Pius XI had the official Vatican paper condemn it. Which leads us to wonder about the truth of the secret naughty vault somewhere there.

Hedy’s husband Fritz Mandl was so peeved, he tried to buy and burn all copies of the film. That’s not all, he even kept her prisoner in their mansion for a couple of years, till she escaped dressed as a maid, and went on to marry 5 other guys. The last of these Joes was a lawyer who helped her fight the divorce case against the second last.

Quite a fiesty woman, makes Lindsay Lohan look like a minor character in a Dickensian novel.

Just a passing thought, is it just me or do you too see a Freudian motif in the horse in the scene?

Here’s a list of Top 100 Celebrity Nude Scenes compiled by MrSkin.com. Fun in a harmless sort of way and surprising in a gag and sputter style.

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