Purity, a simple country girl, comes to the city and is hired as an artist's model. A young poet becomes obsessed with her, and is distraught when he learns she has been posing nude. But his distress is diminished when he finds that she intends to use her income from modelling to publish his poetry.
Acting
Audrey Munson—'Miss Manhattan' herself, the first nude film actress.
Production
One of the 'four lost beauties,' most prints destroyed by moral guardians.
Director
Rae Berger
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Audrey Munson was the most famous artist's model of her era, posing for over 30 statues in NYC including the USS Maine monument. Hollywood exploited her fame, then abandoned her when scandal hit.
Munson's mother actually managed her nude modeling career and sued producers who tried to cheat them—so much for 'simple country girl.' She died in an asylum in 1996 at age 104, her film legacy mostly ash.
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