Did anyone see it in 1963?
What was your experience?? was there an intermission?
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I was 10 years old when my mom took me to see this, and it was only because she couldn't get a babysitter, lol.
I went to Catholic school and was sworn to secrecy to never, ever tell anyone I'd seen the movie, since it was condemned by the Catholic Church. That was laughable since the publicity was EVERYWHERE, and we stole our parents' Life magazine to ogle all the nudie pictures (well, we thought all those cleavage shots were nudie!)
My mom covered my eyes at all the (at the time) salacious parts.
I still recall almost the entire audience gasped when ET appeared semi nude in her massage scene.
Ah, the good old days, lol!
My sister, my 13-year-old brother, and I saw it in 1963. We were Catholic School kids, too, but unaware that the Legion of Decency had put it off limits. I don't think it ever occurred to our nuns that we would go to see it.
We realized we had made a mistake bringing our brother with us when the semi-nude massage scene came on and we noticed his eyes bugging out. We were shocked at that scene.
I still have some Egyptian-style costume jewelry from back then. There was a craze for all things Egyptian because of that movie. It was the first time I ever had bangs. We wanted to look like Liz's Cleopatra. I had to be content with the bangs and attempts to copy the hairstyles, and the jewelry. My parents didn't allow us girls to wear eye makeup.
I did, but I was only nine, so I didn't really get it.
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