Randal Kleiser's 1980 nudity-packed romantic adventure film faced a fair amount of criticism in its day despite the movie's box-office success. Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins in ‘Blue Lagoon’.
The image of Cohen’s hairy chest and near-bare buttocks is seared into the minds of moviegoers everywhere, thanks to the lime green “mankini” he wore as a Kazakh journalist on an American adventure in the 2006 smash hit. The scene launched the then-unknown actress to international sex-symbol status, cornrows and all. Eventually, he settled for an 'anti-belly button clause,' permitting her to appear wearing a two-piece that covered her navel.ĭerek and her nude one-piece started the running-across-the-beach-shot trend back in 1979.
The beach party film series (think High School Musical in the 1960s) starred Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon traipsing around in quintessential '60s swimwear, though it almost wasn't so: Walt Disney, who still had Funicello under contract after her stint on The Mousketeers, reportedly would not allow her to appear in the film if she donned a bikini.
