It's Bath Day!

Regular readers know that I save pictures of movie and TV stars in the tub and post them once I have amassed a decent-sized collection. The longer this ol' blog sticks around, the harder it is to find new examples to post (this is the eighth installment!), but I did scavenge up a few for today. It's been a little while since we plugged the drain and sprinkled in some suds so here are a few rub-a-dub-dubs for you to observe. Today's cover boy in Sir Paul McCartney enjoying a bubble bath. And now, let's proceed with this most recent round of foamy frivolity. We start with a few still photos.

In 1945's Shadow of Death, a man's bath is being interrupted by a brawl. Most movie baths take place with at least one other person in the room! I wish it were star Buster Crabbe who was in the tub this time...

George Sanders is getting a little extra attention from a lady friend in The Best House in London (1969.)

Marcello Mastroianni has a soak in Leo the Last (1970.) I tried to find this scene in the movie in order to provide more (un)coverage, but never did locate it! There is, however, a scene involving a large group of people swimming naked together with all kinds of bums and boobs (and perhaps other things) bobbing around.

Now this still from Georgy Girl (1966) with Alan Bates did send me scurrying for a look at the actual scene. (And believe it or not, I've never watched this before...!) This angle of Mr. Bates is not shown in the movie, but is only available from the still photographer's viewpoint.

In the movie proper, Bates is cleaning himself up (with every conceivable product at his disposal) in an effort to win the affections of Lynn Redgrave, who is cooking in the other room.

The cigar isn't the only thing smoldering... Bates wants to make sure Redgrave sees him, so he deliberately opens the door wider so that she has a clear view...

...so that he can - once he's sure he's nice and fresh! - stand up and give her a cheeky peek. This moment lasts a nanosecond in the film, but I have captured it for you. Bates, of course, was no stranger to on-screen nudity, but this was pushing the envelope for 1966.

Oliver Reed, Bates' costar from Women in Love (1969), in which the two had a nude wrestling match, has a nice bubble bath in Sitting Target (1972.) Here, he's an escaped convict holding a lady hostage, but taking time out to relax and clean up.

It's fast and dark, but I think he's wearing black briefs for the scene, which is a little disappointing since we know he'd been naked before (and after) in movies.

Nevertheless, this is Ollie at or near his prime and he's so good looking!

Having endured prison showers for too long a time, he is more than elated at getting to enjoy the pleasures of a hot sudsy bath.

His hostage, who is becoming more and more endeared to him as the situation wears on, has fun decorating his face with bath bubbles.

I love the way he looks here!

Now this is a bathroom befitting a king! (Well, an emperor? It's Napoleon Bonaparte)

The famed leader was portrayed here in Waterloo (1970) by Rod Steiger.

The movie has stunning scope, particularly in its heavily-populated battle scenes, yet it has a tendency to be dull, even with Steiger's often hammy portrayal.

As is to be expected, he has company during the bath.

I once worked for a man who had a role in this movie and I utterly loathed being under his management. One night I invited some similarly inclined coworkers over for a screening and we repeatedly watched him get shot to death on screen! LOL

Hey man... this groovy scene is from the hooty Beyond Atlantis (1973) with John Ashley and iconic movie bad guy Sid Haig. The two converse while Haig is getting a rundown.

The massage includes some unusual techniques (not your ordinary "foot massage!")

Afterwards, while he and Ashley continue their chat, Haig takes a bath, complete with help soaping up!

The size of this tub cracked me up.

Ya gotta hand it to this girl who (see inset) wants to make sure her man is clean everywhere!

Up next is the western The Wild Rovers (1971) which starred William Holden and Ryan O'Neal. They take time off the trail for a shave and a bath at a local establishment. Note the diminutive tubs all connected in a row...!

While Holden enjoys a drink, the attendant tops him off with more hot water.

Now it's O'Neal's turn to sidle into the adjacent tub as a little bath boy comes to put some water in there for him.

Hey, I'd rather do this than have a paper route or be a bag boy at the grocery...!

Some viewers (and reviewers) detected a certain homoerotica between these two characters in the movie. This camera set-up doesn't exactly work against that.

Especially now!

A similar sort of set-up occurs in the 1976 TV-movie (and failed pilot) Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free. A hot bath is twice as expensive as a cold one, so save your pennies until you can afford some heat!

This time the tubs are larger and more separate as the title character (played by Don Meredith) and his nephew Ike Eisenmann stop off for a scrub.

It's rather fascinating the way these places always have people helping out with what I always consider something I can handle myself! LOL

I daresay you would not have a scene like this today, innocuous as its intentions are.

Time was, no one thought a thing about same-sex communal bathing/showering, which may be hard for some younger people to grasp who now shower either in their clothing or change under a towel in public if there isn't total privacy. They did cloud up young Eisenmann's water at least, but not Meredith's.

"Dandy" Don Meredith was a former football star turned actor and sportscaster.

His acting career occurred chiefly (but not exclusively) in the mid-1970s.

Another example of a person getting a helping hand while bathing. This time we find Herbert Lom in Villa Rides (1968.)

No harm to Mr. Lom, but this movie stars Yul Brynner and Robert Mitchum and yet he's the one in the tub?!

No, this is not from a home movie at The Wagner household... Here we find Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood during their collaboration in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1976.)

When I played Brick, he took an off-stage shower, but the luxury of filming allows for some leeway, thus we see Wagner with his broken led relaxing in a claw-foot tub.

Wood (who is very beautiful in this project) and Wagner only made one feature film (All the Fine Young Cannibals, 1960) together and one TV-movie (The Affair, 1973) apart from this filmed play (in which Laurence Olivier portrayed Big Daddy.)

Here's a weird one, though the whole movie's weird. A woman is taking milk fresh from a goat. I mean right outta the teat...

...and then pouring it through a sieve-like pot so that it can rain down on our handsome subject.

The movie is Modesty Blaise (1966) and the gent is Terence Stamp during the height of his appeal. This movie was recently gifted to me by a loyal PU reader.

Bathtime happens at the tail end of the film, so those who gave up on the often nonsensical shenanigans before this missed out!

Like I say, the tail end of the movie! LOL

This one was suggested to me by a reader the last time we took a dip in the tub. Jeff Bridges in Hearts of the West (1975.)

Mr. Bridges was only about twenty-five at this point.

At one point he stands up, though we still don't see anything.

He certainly was cute, though. If you really want to see his rear-end in all its splendor, you have to go to this older post, which has been updated not too long ago with new pics!

Still on the subject of tubs, we come to Marlon Brando... (no pun intended!) This sequence is from The Missouri Breaks (1976.) Actually, Mr. B was still in reasonable shape at this point.

Nicholson presses his way into Brando's bathroom in order to confront him and prepare to shoot him dead.

The suds-covered Brando is ordered to turn away from Nicholson as he prepares to fire.

This was the last time audiences saw Brando for two years until he famously resurfaced in Superman: The Movie (1978) for an exorbitant fee.

He still possessed that penetrating gaze and his ability to keep audiences' eyes drawn to him.

While we were marking the passing of Mr. Robert Conrad a while back, we came upon this scene from a TV-movie of his called Glory Days (1988.) How 1980s is this bathroom?!?!

In it, Conrad plays a middle-aged man who returns to college and winds up playing football on the team! After his first practice, he is sore as hell and soaks in the tub to unwind as he discusses the situation with his wife (Jennifer O'Neill.)

Fifty-three year-old Conrad still had the bod, though he had recently had some work done on his eyelids which I feel rarely works out for the best (not that I relish my own fast-developing overhang!)

True, it did brighten up his eye area, but somehow I can nearly always spot it because it goes against the natural progression that comes with age. But look at that torso!

In his day, Conrad had a serious "chest o'death!"

In this 1972 edition of Films and Filming, it's not 100% clear exactly what's going on.

So I take you instead to a still photo from The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973) which has Ryan O'Neal in the tub. You may have heard the phrase (given when someone is really "hot"), "I'd drink his bathwater..." Well, apparently Ryan liked himself that much!! LOL

Of course we went and scared up the scene from the film. He's first glimpsed in the mirror of the bathroom.

Then Charles Cioffi comes storming in and O'Neal's tub is only visible in the far, lower-right part of the screen.

He's eventually seen in a medium shot, but there really aren't any terrific frames of him in his tub. (And he never wrings out the sponge into his mouth, which is probably a good thing!)

He does ask Cioffi to hand him a towel, which isn't exactly completely out of reach for him. This movie is filled with shots of shirtless O'Neal. I need to watch it in its entirety sometime.