Cultural views on the navel 1960s, community standards had changed. Marilyn Monroe was allowed to expose her navel in "Something's Got to Give" (1962) and later commented, "I guess the censors are willing to recognize that everybody has a navel." Ursula Andress, appearing as Honey Rider in the 1962 James Bond film, "Dr. No", wore her iconic white bikini, which exposed her midriff and navel. However, when Annette Funicello was cast in her first beach movie "Beach Party" (1963), Walt Disney, who held her contract, insisted that she only wear modest bathing suits and keep her navel covered, to preserve her wholesome persona, though she
Anita Ekberg Ryder in "Dr. No", but the role went to the then-unknown Ursula Andress. However Broccoli then cast her in "Call Me Bwana" (1963) with Bob Hope. ("Call Me Bwana" featured in the second Bond film, "From Russia with Love", during a sequence where Ali Kerim Bey assassinates the Russian agent Krilencu with a sniper rifle. Krilencu attempts to escape through a window, which is situated in Anita Ekberg's mouth, on the wall-sized poster: "She should have kept her mouth shut," Bond says.) Ekberg co-starred with Andress, Frank Sinatra, and Dean Martin in the western-comedy "4 for Texas" (1963). She returned