**WARNING** not for little eyes or the easily alarmed
By The Power of Greyskull!!! Take a look at Dame Judi Dench’s Titania!
This black and white still of Britain’s best-loved actress “in the altogether” for Peter Hall’s adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1968) was deemed so raunchy and shocking that Pinterest took it down!
Now Lily Wight knows if it’s in black and white AND scripted by Shakespeare it must be Art so there is no shame whatsoever in taking a moment to enjoy Dame Judi’s seldom seen – but mighty fine – Titania 🙂
😮 Judi!
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What a saucy minx!!
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lol who knew!
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We all do now 😉
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Amazing puritanical neurosis. Americans are so conflicted about their bodies. THE most natural thing in the human experience and still they freak. I am a visual artist and have been told by a college where I recently exhibited they would take my work down if it showed exposed breasts. College!!!! If you can’t see and learn there…
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If it’s ok for Judi Dench it’s ok with me 😉 Perhaps those leaf-clad boobies were just too shocking for people looking at pictures of crafting and cupcakes!
Some of the finest and most revered Art in the world focusses on nudity, perhaps I’ll post a Renaissance masterpiece and see if that gets removed 😉
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That is some funny shite. Judy one of the best living actresses used to be somewhat cute. lol
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Judi’s got it going on!
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Kinda awesome if you ask me.
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Go Judi!
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Seems interesting. What do you mean it was taken down. Was the movie banned back then??? That’s silly, she’s a superb actress, she won’t come in anything cheap. This has to be a good enough flick, and she she looks aesthetically appealing.
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I don’t think the movie was banned, it looks quite tame by today’s standards.
I posted one of the pics on Pinterest and received an email from them saying it had been taken down for breaching their nudity policy!!!! I’ve posted works of art, old and modern, which are far more explicit which they happily host. I guess Dame Judi is just to hot for some!
I thought about doing a similar feature on Helen Mirren… but the internet is just not big enough 😉
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Thanks That made more sense now to me. Pinterest must be website then.
Love to see this movie. And your works of art.
I really like your Gravatar image -> with red dress. Did you do that?
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No, I wish I had. Permission to use the image was given by the artist, Patrick Valenza. It is The Eight of Cups from his Deviant Moon Tarot Deck. His work often appears on my blog.
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I saw this with my family on B&W television in Washington DC in 1969. We LOVED it and were completely unfazed by the near-nudity. (The rest of uptight Washington expressed near apoplexy in THE WASHINGTON POST the following day. The local TV station which showed it responded by repeating the broadcast the following night.. They also broadcast Ken Russell’s DANTE’S INFERNO and ISADORA, THE BIGGEST DANCER IN THE WORLD the previous year) It wasn’t exploitative. It made perfect sense within the context of this production’s countercultural aesthetic. It is really a wonderful production by the Royal Shakespeare Company and can be seen in a gloriously restored copy on DVD. Peter Hall directed and its youthful cast included Diana Rigg, Helen Mirren, David Warner, Bill Travers, Ian Holm as well as Dench and Ian Richardson as a superbly quarreling Titania and Oberon.
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There are two DVD’s out there. 20th Century Fox / MGM is the superior one in every way. Waterbearer Films produced an acceptable one which they have posted in full on their YouTube. It’s not the worst if you want an idea wahat the film is like, but the original color is terribly muddied and there’s alot of debris which wasn’t cleaned up.
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