***You remember Claudia Cardinale? So do I!***
Oh so do I! I saw her in THE PROFESSIONALS with Burt Lancaster and Lee Marvin. In one scene she removes her top for Burt, and you can see in the shadows she was ALL WOMAN! I saw the same movie a few months later and her “All Woman” was blacked out!
Every time I have seen it that scene has a dark fog area over the lower right corner of the film.
I have never seen the original version since 1966!
All those years I saw actresses like Ursula Andress & Ali McGraw with those cinematic cover ups & I asked, “so what’s wrong with showing the beauty of the female bosom?”
Plenty, it turned out, for straight women who were also in the audience watching the movie. Propriety had little to do with it.
Market share, market share.