The Kiss Circa '65

May, 1965

In his latest film, In Harm's Way, precedent-busting producer-director Otto Preminger escalates his war against movie censorship with a contemporary variation on the classic cinematic clinch, with German-born beauty Barbara Bouchet (right) wrapped in warm unadorned embrace with ex–TV cowboy Hugh O'Brian on the sandy shores of Waikiki Beach. Although Playboy has featured other filmic highlights of natatorial nudity in the past—Susannah York (June 1964), Elsa Martinelli in the arms of Robert Mitch...

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