Office girl that likes him...
I first thought she was one of the Gabor sisters. Apparently "Erica" I think her name was, was just a no name actress?
Nice looking, though.
shareYeah I agree nice looking woman. Odd that this was the only movie that Kay Kimberley "Erica" is credited with on her IMDB page. I remember seeing this movie late night on network TV but didn't see it in the theater uncensored when it came out. I just saw it on encore cable channel. I'm just guessing but her doing a nude explicit sex scene with a black man in 1970 certainly didn't help advance her career. Unfortunate if this was the case. Racism had negative effects not only on black actors careers but whites too.
shareDid you ever see ' Black Like Me ', from '64, with James Whitmore? It's based on a true story. I'm glad that I purchased the dvd when I did. It's in moratorium now and prohibitively expensive. Pretty good film.
shareRacism had negative effects not only on black actors careers but whites too.
Truer words were never written, ebony man2001... Back in the day, when Sammy Davis Jr. married May Britt in 1960, her lackluster career took a weighted nose dive, taking her off the radar until 1969, about a year after she and Sammy divorced. And let's not forget that infamous Star Trek episode where Kirk and Uhuru were being forced to kiss by some alien creature; if you check the camera angle and the actor's positioning, you'll see that they don't really kiss so much as Kirk's hand is discreetly covering her mouth. It was shot that way, so that it could be neatly edited when broadcast in racially sensitive markets. It even happened fairly recently (compared to the previous examples) in the movie Fatal Beauty with Whoopi Goldberg and Sam Elliot: The sex scene was shot but has been edited out of most broadcasts, and may only be on a director's cut dvd. All you see is the implied aftermath of Whoopi waking up the next morning to find Sam gone. The times have changed, but not that much, and for there to be such an explicit nude/sex scene in the 1970s just freaked a lot of people out. I remember how my friends and I would hear rumors about the scene and tried desperately to sneak into the theatre to watch the movie, but since we were underage, none of us were very successful. And how brave was Godfrey Cambridge; not the most beautiful man in the world, who was willing to go partially nude for the sake of the storyline. A movie worth having.
morticia021358-1: "And let's not forget that infamous Star Trek episode where Kirk and Uhuru were being forced to kiss by some alien creature; if you check the camera angle and the actor's positioning, you'll see that they don't really kiss so much as Kirk's hand is discreetly covering her mouth. It was shot that way, so that it could be neatly edited when broadcast in racially sensitive markets."
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Well, that hardly damaged either of their careers. Originally, Spock was to kiss Uhura and Kirk would kiss Nurse Chapel, with it being considered 'okay' to have the Vulcan kiss the black woman and keep the two whites together, but Shatner said if anyone was going to kiss the very beautiful Nicholls, it was going to be him.
There was also an embrace filmed between Kirk and Uhura, but unobserved by the director, producer and cameraman, Shatner crossed his eyes, ruining the shot, so they had to go with the one previously filmed of them kissing, or appearing to kiss, as Nicholls has pointed out, they didn't kiss.
As for us 'racially sensitive markets', hello from Mississippi. It often seems to me these figures in Hollywood who maintained segregation to the point of being able to edit out black scenes and the like did far more damage than anyone who refused to watch a tv show with a biracial kiss in it.
Nicholls also spoke about getting a letter from a man in Georgia saying he was opposed to mixed races, but that when Kirk kissed her, he sure did kiss one very beautiful woman.
Well, that hardly damaged either of their careers.
So true. Bill Shatner went on to make many, many TV and movie franchises, creating multiple characters. Not to be out-done Nichelle Nichols also made a living as an actress.
Equality! share