"Which actress caused a sensation by appearing naked in the 1933 film ""Ecstasy""?"
Ecstasy (film) Ecstasy (film) Ecstasy (, , ) is a 1933 Czech-Austrian romantic drama film directed by Gustav Machatý and starring Hedy Lamarr (then Hedy Kiesler), Aribert Mog, and Zvonimir Rogoz. Written by František Horký, Gustav Machatý, Jacques A. Koerpel, and Robert Horký, the film is about a young woman who marries a wealthy but much older man. After abandoning her brief passionless marriage, she meets a young virile engineer who becomes her lover. "Ecstasy" was filmed in three language versions—German, Czech, and French. "Ecstasy" was highly controversial in its time because of scenes in which Lamarr swims in the nude and
Ecstasy (film) 8 January 1935, with the title "Symphonie der Liebe" ("Symphony of Love"). In the United States, the Catholic Legion of Decency found the film morally objectionable. It condemned the film in 1933, making "Ecstasy" one of the first foreign films condemned by the Legion. Beginning in 1936, the US distributor of "Ecstasy" lobbied the Hays office for ten months to get the film the Hays Code seal of approval which would allow it a wide American release. Joseph Breen called the picture "highly—even dangerously—indecent" in an inter-office memo to Will H. Hays, and told the producers: "Ecstasy" was not released