Carol Lynley

[Findcandor]

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After collecting my materials for the post to follow (which grew to be far bigger than planned), one I didn't even intend to prepare, I went through the thread again, but with greater care. (In fact, I went through the thread many times, especially after I went web-shopping to dress this post up, to make sure what I have wasn't used before.)


Bottom of Post #14 by George Anson features
another view of Carol and a cub.

While it was exciting to see the post directly above entitled, "(1965) Photo For Playboy Shoot," when Carol Lynley teased with a "T" and her luscious "A" (shielded by the translucent fabric), the fact is, all the way back in 2008 when Wendigo began this thread, he offered the same view not once, but (in other variations) three times in Post #1 — repeated in Post #7 by Member "Berigan" along with other photos that were perhaps from the same shoot (see second photo below for a nice example). Member "Fabrizio" offered the same "translucent" view in Post #13, along with other nude views, for which he credited the 2010 post of Member "Al Gebra" from another thread. (Along with other enticing views of our lady, as with the third and fourth shots below.)

Originally Posted by Wendigo

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As described, Wendigo's shot is followed by one from Berigan, and the last three are from Fabrizio.

In the post before last (bottom of page 10, described as "From the book The Celebrities"; I presume, after checking, what was meant was the 2006 book, Playboy: The Celebrities), there is this shot (below) of Carol enticingly lying on her side, reproduced all over the place, as with Berigan's aforementioned Post #7 on page one. (On page three's Post #27, Member "Jorge Borg" offered the same, but at least identified it as a "new scan.") I'm following that up with an image from Blocked! Member "Apsara," page one's Post #6, because these are Carol "nudies" that I haven't run into. (At least not in the form of the published page; sometimes the individually scanned photos have been put up, as with this 2014 post from Al Gebra, who credited another source.)

Originally Posted by senseo69

From the book The celebrities.
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Given its repeated exposure, the now famous "lying on side"
photo was actually turned ninety degrees counter-clockwise, in the
pages of the magazine; see "Post #28," below.

Aspara's description was, "Carol back in the Bunny mag, 12-1965," implying Playboy probably used leftover photos from the March 1965 shoot nine months later. Aspara — whom I have repeatedly noticed made such valuable contributions; I wonder what his transgression was to get him banished — then offered on page three's Post #28 what he described as "03-1965 PB pictorial : complete, full pages, from electronic source." Yet some of the Carol Lynley nudies that have been reproduced all over the place (as with pictures two, three and five that you see at this post's beginning, above) are not present and accounted for, so I'm confused. I don't believe Carol posed nude anywhere else, so where did these other nude photos come from?


Psychedelic Carol, followed by toweled Carol.

Now I'm leading up to something, so please have patience (and for God's sake, I haven't even begun my post in earnest), but I'd like to stick you with a digression before continuing. In that "complete, full pages" post was this page from the Playboy article that some of you might enjoy reading, to get to know Carol, the person, a bit better:

Carol Lynley is that rarest of rarities, a famous little girl who grew up to be a famous woman. Never a spoiled prodigy, but always prodigiously pretty in a natural-blonde way, she was New York's top junior mannequin before reaching her teens. At 15, having found modeling "iffy," she launched her acting career with a major role in Broadway's The Polling Shed, and the same year added a cover story in Life to her more than 50 magazine credits. Carol then assessed her future as being "where the money is," and also predicted that by 21 she would quit, marry and raise a family. Moving faster than foreseen, Carol was not only married and a mother by that age, but a divorcee as well. Far from retiring, however, she was just beginning to earn big cabbage. Her delineation of the unwed mother in Blue Denim—at 17—had won her numerous TV and film parts; but most of them portrayed her as a fluffy-brained teenager. Claiming she merited "adult, sexy roles," Carol made her point in The Cardinal, in which she played a hard-bitten taxi dancer. She continued to prove her maturity with sophisticated parts in Under the Yum Yum Tree, Shock Treatment, The Pleasure Seekers and, not least of all, this portfolio of exclusive photographs for PLAYBOY.


This photo may be from Henry Fonda and the Family,
a 1962 TV special that was nominated for an Emmy.
Dick Van Dyke stands behind our lady.


All right, so here is where I was going with all of this. Naturally, our primary interest is in seeing Carol Lynley in the buff.



Yet she has been very reluctant to show her wares on the silver screen, even though she has not been shy (once in a while) about appearing in bikinis, and the like.

Originally Posted by pygar77

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Member "Pygar" provided (in Post #94, 2021) these wonderful views of Carol from her 1980 appearance on CHARLIE'S ANGELS, when Ms. Lynley was thirty-eight. Member "Cuzzyman927" came through (as he usually does for the more intimate views), with the second shot, in his Post #67 from 2016. Member "George Anson" offered the last tantalizing view from "Roadshow" Magazine, in his Post #43 from 2014.

Yet if we want to satisfy our desire to see Carol without her clothing when she was at her prime, there is nothing except for the 1965 Playboy shoot, and a minor look from a December edition of that year. (Then there are the "mystery nudes," assuming Aspara's post included everything from the March 1965 issue. For a clearer understanding, take another look at Fabrizio's Post #13; there are four photos featuring the couch from the "lying on side" photo. If they didn't appear in the March 1965 Playboy, where did they come from?)



This is why we keep seeing the same photos over and over. (Luckily, she was willing to do that shoot, when she was twenty-two. Since she was known as a "kid," I suppose part of her motivation was for the world to see her as breaking out of that mold. At the end of this post will be included Carol's thoughts as to why she posed for Playboy.)


Announcing the short film categories at the 1979 Academy Awards, with actor Robby Benson.

What about her cinematic "exposure"? There isn't much. Moon Raker offered a quick "nipple" view from Bad Georgia Road (a 1977 film about a snooty city girl, played by Carol, becoming a moonshiner in the South), in his Post #37, where he improved on Berigan's Post #4 (which Moon Raker identified as Post #8; looks like some VEF posts have been disappearing over the years), then as Carol got older and (I suppose) the parts were not coming in as much, she showed off more flesh than usual in 1978's haunted house comedy thriller The Cat and the Canary (she was still a sexy thirty-six-year-old) — but without nudity, as Member "Char2314" first introduced in 2010, and Member "Span4f" elaborated on in Post #61. Other views from the film slipped through in this thread now and then (perhaps without knowing which film the photos were from), as with the middle shot below from 2020's Post #88.

Originally Posted by Moon Raker

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As described, Moon Raker's shot is followed by one from Cuzzyman927's Post #88, and the last from Amontillado.

Finally Carol went "all the way" on the silver screen, with her exposed breasts (in the shadows) from 1988's Blackout, and she did this at the age of forty six. The last shot above is courtesy of Member "Amontillado," from 2020's Post #91.


In 1960, the eighteen-year-old starlet
was a doll in more ways than one.

Now I didn't mean to go into this review of "Carol nudity." It all began when I prepared a post for Julie Newmar, accenting her appearance in The Maltese Bippy, which led to another post of another actress from the film, Pamela Rodgers. The third actress was Carol Lynley, and then I figured, how can Carol Lynley be neglected? Carol, after all, was one of the most beautiful actresses around.


With Pamela Tiffin in 1964's The Pleasure Seekers, a box-office disappointment.
Ann-Margret's theory: "Audiences didn't want us to grow up."

Then I reviewed the thread as I always do before presenting a post, certainly on the look-out for when Carol has been most revealed, which is when I noticed how the nude photos kept getting repeated more than usual.

So let me get on with what I originally planned on. I don't even have much on Carol from 1969's The Maltese Bippy, aside from these frame grabs from the film's trailer:


In the clutches of Dick Martin.


In 1967's The Shuttered Room, Carol and her father (oops. He only looked like dad, when in fact, Gig Young was her husband) had to deal with a dangerous rural crowd (as Dustin Hoffman and Susan George later would, in Sam Peckinpah’s 1971 film, Straw Dogs) led by menacing Oliver Reed (third shot) who has a yen for Carol. Meanwhile, there is something in the attic of the scary house the urban couple now owns.



This Lovecraft tale was not badly handled, and yet it was still the kind of B-picture Carol was forced to appear in (while still in her mid-twenties), after her Hollywood career got in trouble, once Bunny Lake Is Missing and Harlow fared badly.



In 1967, Carol was especially fetching in The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'s two-parter, "The Prince of Darkness Affair." They were edited (very likely with new footage shot) to create a theatrically released feature film entitled The Helicopter Spies, which Member "Stralis440" featured in his Post #3, back in 2009.




Carol got a little lovey-dovey with Darren McGavin (as Kolchak), in 1972's The Night Stalker, the highest-rated TV movie up to that time. She might have felt a boost with appearing in a winner, for a change. In the same year, she also appeared in the blockbuster, The Poseidon Adventure, but was merely one in a crowd.



Weekend of Terror, a 1970 TV Movie, was about kidnappers Robert Conrad and Lee Majors, who come up with the idea to kidnap three nuns once their original abductee dies, so that they may pull the old switcheroo and still get the ransom money. The drama comes into play when the victims learn that two of them will be killed afterwards. In the entire history of Catholicism, of course, there has never been a cuter nun than Carol.




Now how did Carol feel about appearing nude in Playboy? According to this account, she felt regret: "It wasn’t really my decision [to pose naked for Playboy]... I had an agent who said I needed to make a transition from teenager to adult, and this was the one way to fast track it, which he was right. I did the shoot in Los Angeles. In retrospect, I wish I hadn’t done it, it’s a little tacky."

Yet according to another account, she practically felt pride: "The reason I never reply to that question is because no matter what I say it will be used against me. But I’ll tell you. I did it because I wanted to. I wanted to do it so much that I wouldn’t even take the money. I didn’t wear a stitch and I felt wonderful all over.” (As told to gossip columnist Sheilah Graham at the time. This article is recommended reading.)

Which was truer? Since the second account came soon after the magazine appeared, she may have been defensive, given the prudishness of the times. The first account came decades later, and she might have come to feel sorry through the passage of the years. (Forgetting about the tremendous service she has performed for mankind.)

I'd also recommend the 1975 TV Times article (entitled, "I'm No Threat to Men, Says Feminist Carol Lynley") that was put up by Wendigo in 2019's Post #84. Carol was thirty three, and in the writer's opinion, "She is so informed, it is incredible to do her justice."

The prior article (revealing her positive Playboy feelings) begins with, "Carol Lynley had the features and grace of a porcelain cat similar to that you which you might find at a quaint little antique shop on the corner of your small-town main street." No doubt about it; Carol was something special.


As a postscript, after going through the thread multiple times, I discovered that I had missed this:

Originally Posted by Joszka

"Stop" n°60, 1966.
(The Google-translated text of the original French, being supplied for clues after I got suspicious):
If Mozart composed his first five-year page sonatas, if Shirley Temple was a billionaire before having finished the Ma-Ternelle School, Carrol Lynley was vamp before having finished his puberty. At fifteen years old, she was already a model, and the review "Life" Jul even devoted coverage, which represents for any "cover girl" chevronee la recupense supreme. Broadway offered her as a gift for his sixteenth anniversary a commitment to the theater and long before her eighteen spring she signed her first cinematographic contract. A reporter Lul had presented to this time that his career was so dazzling that she was retiring at twenty-one years after being married and even more children. The prediction was almost just since Carrol, who has just reached Her Majorite, has already been married. Oci the reporter was mistaken test that Carrol also had time to divorce and that she has no intention of interrupting her career. Her first film "Return to Peyton Place" was not a triumph but "lostido" the criticisms could realize that the young Carrol Lynley was completely able to hold on to (comediennes) (cloak) like Joseph Cotten, Kirk Douglas or Rock Hudson. The very beautiful re-door that we offer you is the case of one of the greatest American photographers who wanted to work in black and white. It is indeed the Territis test for all the artists and the great silky Bianchini does not tromage there when He asked for great painters like Dufy, Matisse and Derain to exercise their first model without the Competition of the slightest color. Carroll like the wonders of nature, does not need chrome to be beautiful! And this number, almost "special", seems to us the best passport for this new star that Hollywood just made, for our greatest pleasure.

This is an oddity. The model barely looks like Carol Lynley, and it was obviously not an interview. She wasn't going to pose nude again for a French magazine a year after Playboy; it would have been anti-climactic, I'd think. Maybe the publishers found a secret stash of some shoot Carol had participated in years ago (as with Penthouse's 1984 issue which exposed Vanessa Williams after being crowned as Miss America — although why would Carol have done such a thing, when she was a highly successful supermodel, before the term was coined), assuming there is nothing fishy about these photos.

Doesn't this model's nose look bigger than Carol's dainty nose? The heavy make-up could have been applied as a "disguise." The text's bad translation drops the name of "Bianchini," implying this artist would be well-known since he was "one of the greatest American photographers"; the only shutterbug by the name that came up for me was Gabriel Guerra Bianchini, a Cuban born in 1984. Assuming legitimacy, couldn't this "Bianchini" have made more money with a U.S. magazine, given the value of these photos? At any rate, if authentic, this is an uncanny find, and Member "Joszka" calls to be commended. The discovery would also point to the possibility of more nudes from this sparkling woman.



Carol, near life's end.




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[debgtb]

used 2 images to make 1 big one

https://www.imagevenue.com/ME15KKQB

[tsunamiSD]

I've done various word and reverse image searches for her involving this movie, and came up with the following. I've included several versions for some because if size or darkness differences. Unfortunately, some are smaller than I'd like.

[senseo69]

My scan from British Showtime magazine february 1966.

[Sonnet]

Harry Langdon photoshoot | 1980



Harry Langdon photoshoot | 1981



HQ pics | Linked Gallery HERE

Any duplicates are upgrades

[swift12]

Carol from Orson Welles' Great Mysteries #13 - The Death of an Old-Fashioned Girl, playing the titular old-fashioned (by which she means, manipulative and shrewd) gal Elizabeth. So no great mystery that the episode starts with her being already dead, but we are told of how events led to her demise in flashbacks.
Latching on to an up-and-coming artist who was just getting to be popular, Elizabeth quickly wraps him around her finger, leading to his wife to make a scene and leave at a party. She then plays the innocent with hurt feelings to keep him from going after his wife - and that ends with her suicide and Elizabeth marrying him. Years later, she has completely cut her husband (who now hates her for all this but stays with her still) from his friends, and at a party where they all attend at the anniversary of the first wife's funeral, she gleefully fires his old friend and gallery owner, and tells his closest friend that her husband was picked over him for the university position. So... each of them had a reason to murder her.
But in a final twist, we learn her death was an ironic punishment - when the friends storm into her husband's studio, which she was barred from, they see he has painted and sketched nothing but portraits of his first wife. Elizabeth is enraged and starts screaming and tearing up the sketches, and then grabs a canvas-cutting knife and tries to slash a finished painting of her old rival - except the canvas was treated with enamel, which causes the knife to slide down and her to stab herself in the stomach...

[johnbear]

https://imgbox.com/g/lTJY2PaRzh

[Joszka]

"Film International" n°3, June 75.
Review of "The Four Deuces", William H. Bushnell. Not her on pic 3.
Gallery

[CandyMoFan]

CAROL from the depths of my files.......................

[johnbear]

https://pixhost.to/gallery/kYuoP