Samantha Eggar
Nude

The sleek silhouette of redheaded head-turner Samantha Eggar would be as fresh and contemporary if she were debuting today as when her Vogue-quality profile first catwalked onto the world stage in The Wild and the Willing (1962). Samantha was a bit of both wild and willing in the role she is best remembered for: that of a young girl held captive by a sexual misfit in the creepy thriller The Collector (1965). Although no nipples, pubes, or crack of bum survive in The Collector‘s final cut, long, exquisitely-lensed scenes of Eggar’s captor bathing the comely hostage’s nude body in a sudsy tub are erotic in a highly-charged, eerie, and disturbing way. Although such a role seemed to imply a future full of flesh-flashing, Sammy has spent most of her screen career completely sheathed. Her skinless credits include the family flick Doctor Dolittle (1967), the historical drama The Molly Maguires (1970), classic ’70s shows like Columbo, Starsky and Hutch, Fantasy Island, and Hawaii Five-O, the Disney animation feature Hercules (1997), and video games like Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned (1999), 007: Nightfire (2002), and James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing (2003). However, she did get briefly nude in a couple projects. Samantha’s open-view roll of breast flesh in A Name for Evil (1973) and slip of nip in The Brood (1979) are certainly pleasing to the peen, but The Collector is where her best and oddest sexual thrills are to be found. Let’s Eggar on to make a skinema comeback!