Tarzan and His Mate

1932

There is a story to the caps and clips of Maureen O'Sullivan.  Most comments on the movie deal with the naked swimming scene done by Josephine McKim, who worked as Ms. O'Sullivan's double in this movie.  Turns out that was only one of two scenes with the Olympic champion swimmer as substitute for the lead actress; the second one has Tarzan's mate, Jane, escaping from a leopard by jumping into a river, where a crocodile the size of Nebraska gives chase.

In this scene you can see that even though Jane wears a skimpy outfit throughout the movie she does not go commando. A loin cloth covers her naughty bits. 

All of that is relevant because a few online sources and a YouTube video claim that in a late scene, Ms. O'Sullivan unintentionally reveals her garden of infinite bliss as she kneels.  To be sure, a couple of earlier scenes are ambiguous, when we get her skirt flies open for a frame or two, but for the one scene in question, as Jane fights off a bunch of hungry lions, it is ever so obvious she wears an undergarment. 

But.  In that same scene, It looks to me as though she might do a Vivien Leigh and give us a peek at her tasty hoots.  Maybe.  Perhaps.  So, a bad news, good news situation - no accidental exposure of furry bits but there could be a peek worthy of a poke. 

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Monte Cristo

1930

A bit deeper into history we have a musical - and it blows chunks, which is why you might never have heard of it, but Ms. Jeanette MacDonald spends an inordinate amount of time wearing sheer nightgowns (reviewers, at the time, took note of that fact).  The clip and the collage are from two of the more revealing scenes (I screwed up the sound somehow – it does not sync with the action – but I noticed it too late to do anything about it).