Famed cheesecake model turned cheesecake photographer Bunny Yeager stars as herself in this nudie “documentary” from director Barry (The Beast That Killed Women) Mahon. Bunny gets a flat tire on the way to her latest photoshoot. As luck would have it, Bunny spots a new ingenue at the bus stop and invites the girl to model for her. (“I think if a male photographer had approached this girl, she would’ve run the other way!”) However, the new model is shy and has to run the idea past her boyfriend first. Meanwhile, Bunny deals with a creep who keeps calling her studio looking to arrange “dates” with her models.
Along the way, Bunny Yeager’s Nude Camera captures: A woman modeling a bath towel (and nothing else), a model in a Native American headdress, a model covering herself with a big fan, a gal in a Viking outfit (!), a set of sisters in a fountain, nudes wearing Halloween masks, harem girl outfits, and a calendar girl in a giant old bathtub.
It’s all handled very tastefully. The plot is too loosey-goosey to work as a narrative film and the slice of life scenes of Bunny taking photos is too thin to work as a documentary. While it’s not exactly a rallying cry for equality, it does show Bunny thriving and succeeding in a male-dominated industry. So that’s something. All this is fun for a while, but the plot has more holes in it than Swiss cheese. (What happened to the housewife who wanted Bunny to take pictures of her for her husband?) The gratuitous parade footage also helps prevent it from being a classic. At least it’s only an hour long.
Oh, and this is one of the jumpiest prints I’ve ever seen. On top of that, you can even hear the director yell “CUT!” in some scenes. It all just adds to the overall charm of the picture though.
Yeager isn’t much of an actress, but she does have screen presence, a carryover from her modeling career. She does handle her dialogues quite well, especially such howlers as, “Men are vain, egotistical, and possessive. Bless ‘em!” Mahon even appears as himself to fly Bunny to a pirate convention.
Screenwriter Sande N. Johnson later directed the incredible Teenage Gang Debs.
Bunny Yeager’s Nude Las Vegas followed the same year.
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