The Apple-Knockers and the Coke - 1948
ABOUT THE FILM : The Apple-Knockers and the Coke
Lobster FilmsYear: 1948
The camera purrs and turns about a far from timid young woman. The evanescent images add to the sensuality of the poses. The grain contributes a strange impression of texture, as if the film had turned into skin.
This small erotic film banks on minimalism. The performance of the pin-up girl could even pass for a Coca Cola advertisement, if she didn’t almost choke when the coke goes down the wrong way!
Nationality: American
Actor: Arlene Hunter
Length: 7' 44"
Genre: erotic
Sound: silent
Original elements: black & white
Original language: English
A BRIEF HISTORY : The Apple-Knockers and the Coke
This film will remain famous for having led people to believe that the girl was played by Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962). In 1982, Playboy magazine put an end to this rumour. The girl was in fact the “Playmate” Arline Hunter, a true pin-up girl of the 1950s of whom little is known except that she was endowed with astonishing sex appeal.
A post-war bombshell, Arline Hunter was born around 1930. She played in The Apple-Knockers and the Coke in the late 1940s. Without the slightest complex, she took the same pseudonym as Marilyn Monroe. Many fans of the Hollywood star were outraged. It must be said that Miss Hunter’s performance was quite obscene and provocative for the time.
The false Marilyn enjoyed quite a successful career of its kind. From 1948 on, Arline Hunter played in twenty or so erotic and pornographic films, also known as “blue films”. She also featured as playmate on the centre spread of Playboy magazine before being crowned “playmate of the month” in August 1954.
The distribution of this little film added to the crazy rumours about Marilyn Monroe’s dubious beginnings. When the scandal erupted in 1955, Marilyn Monroe was a box-office hit with Henry Hathaway’s Niagara and Billy Wilder’s The Seven Year Itch.
Even today, Marilyn’s nudity sets tongues wagging. The most recent scandal dates back to April 2008. The American collector Keya Morgan claimed to have in his possession a pornographic film taken from the secret FBI archives! It is said that Joe DiMaggio, Marilyn’s husband from 1954 to 1955, tried to buy it for 25,000 dollars in order to silence this nth affair.
