Kathleen Beller
Nude

After a brief career in commercials, Kathleen Beller turned pro with a four-season stint on the popular daytime soap Search for Tomorrow, which was sponsored by Proctor and Gamble (that’s why they’re called soaps). She quickly moved up the Hollywood ladder, playing an actress in a play Vito Corleone attends in The Godfather: Part II (1974) and the comic send-up of 1930’s films, Movie Movie (1978). Her career was abruptly halted when she took a gamble by appearing in the critically loathed novel adaptation, The Betsy (1978). Criticized for being a trashy, soap opera style melodrama, critics must have missed Miss Beller’s nude scenes as the title character Betsy, a 21 year old automotive heiress. Heavens to Betsy, did they not enjoy seeing her huge rack and bush as she skinny dips in front of a young Tommy Lee Jones? Movies are never a bust when they show topless women that busty! More nudity came soon after, with the types of skinny dipping scenes that will keep you hiding waist deep under the waves, in Surfacing (1981), before she said “you want to see what trashy melodrama looks like, I’ll show you what trashy melodrama looks like” and joined the cast of Dynasty, playing the daughter of the poor servant Joseph Anders. There wasn’t enough of the nasty stuff we like to see, but luckily you can catch her greased ass getting rubbed down in a sleazy moment from The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982), although we don’t get to see Beller’s bells. Outside of some Dynasty reunions, Kathleen acted in the occasional episode of shows like Murder, She Wrote and had a starring role in the one and done drama The Bronx Zoo, before leaving acting in the early nineties. Off screen, Kathleen married Thomas Dolby, the guy who sings “You Blinded Me With Science.” We wish she’d given us more of that poetry in motion over the last few years. Mr. Dolby, could you tell her we need to be surrounded by the nudity of Kathleen Beller?