Blaze Starr Goes Nudist
1962 film by Doris Wishman
Blaze Starr Goes Nudist (also known as Busting Out and Blaze Starr Goes Back to Nature ) is a 1962 American nudist film, directed and produced by Doris Wishman. The film stars burlesque queen Blaze Starr and crooner Ralph Young (as "Russ Martine"). It was written by Melvin Stanley.
Plot
Screen siren Blaze Starr is tired of the rigors of celebrity life. After wandering into a screening of a nudist exploitation film, she travels to Sunny Palms Lodge, a nearby nudist camp, to apply for membership. Blaze enjoys the relaxed atmosphere the camp offers and becomes friends with the camp's director, Andy Simms. Her lack of interest in her professional life quickly becomes apparent to her manager/boyfriend Tony, however, who worries that Blaze will lose her acting contract if the studio finds out she's a nudist. As fate would have it, it turns out the studio head endorses the nudist lifestyle, and Blaze and Andy start a new romance.
Cast
Blaze Starr as herself
Ralph Young as Andy Simms (as "Russ Martine")
Gene Berk as Tony
William Meyer
Sandra Sinclair
Stephen Bloom
Louise Down (as Bunny Downe)
James Antonio
Production
The nude scenes were filmed at Sunny Palms Lodge in Homestead, Florida.
Music
The film features the songs "Going Back To Nature" and "The Moon is The Lamp of Love" by J. J. Kendall.
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