10 Actors Who Really Did It In Movies

7. Blue Movie – Viva & Louis Waldon

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Credited as the first theatrical American feature film to show unsimulated sex, Andy Warhol’s aptly titled Blue Movie starred Warhol superstars Viva and Louis Waldon and according to its creator wasn’t a film about sex but “a film about the Vietnam War and what we can do about it.”

To be fair, there is talk of the Vietnam War around its stars’ love scene but we’re guessing that’s not the main reason people went to see it.

Despite its release during the height of the sexual revolution the film still caused a stir after opening at the New Andy Warhol Garrick Theatre in Greenwich Village when police seized it and the New York Criminal Court later deemed it obscene.

Nonetheless, Blue Movie had quite the cultural impact and is considered an early player in the so-called ‘porno chic’ movement that later gave us films such as Deep Throat and The Devil in Miss Jones. Cheers for that, Mr. Warhol.

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