Naked Came the Stranger is based on a hoax.
Mike McGrady was convinced that books had become so dirty - just read Harold Robbins and Jacqueline Susann - that any book could be a best seller if it had sex in it. He recruited nineteen men and five women from Newsday including 1965 Pulitzer Prize winner Gene Goltz, 1970 Pulitzer Prize winner Robert W. Greene and journalist Marilyn Berge. The book, which he edited with Harvey Aronson to ensure that it was not well-written in the least, was written by Penelope Ashe, who would be played by McGrady's sister-in-law Billie Young.
After selling 20,000 copies, McGrady went on The David Frost Show and told America that it was all a lie. It sold 70,000 more copies after that.
According to The Washington Post, "Mr. McGrady and the other writers had nothing to do with the hardcore film with the same title. They did, however, see the movie at a Times Square theater. During one vivid scene, Aronson told The Charlotte Observer, someone shouted "Author, author! Seventeen of us stood up."
Working under his Henry Paris name for directing (his middle name and favorite city) and Jake Barnes (teh narrator of Hemmingway's The Sun Also Rises) for writing, Radley Metzger created this adult adaption of the book. Gilly (Darby Lloyd Rains) and Billy (Levi Richards) host a morning show. He's always been able to sleep around in the marriage - she catches him with their assistant Phyllis (Mary Stuart) - but something has always held her back. This will be the day in which she unleashes herself, even if it keeps ending up in failure.
When she finally gets it together, she has a memorable moment with Marvin (Alan Marlow) in the second floor of a bus in a daring scene shot with no permits, obviously. She also gets Phyllis for herself and even has a classy silent movie black and white love scene with Teddy (Grant Taylor).
If the movie they're watching in the beginning seems familiar, it's British freakout Bizarre AKA Secrets of Sex.
Mike McGrady was convinced that books had become so dirty - just read Harold Robbins and Jacqueline Susann - that any book could be a best seller if it had sex in it. He recruited nineteen men and five women from Newsday including 1965 Pulitzer Prize winner Gene Goltz, 1970 Pulitzer Prize winner Robert W. Greene and journalist Marilyn Berge. The book, which he edited with Harvey Aronson to ensure that it was not well-written in the least, was written by Penelope Ashe, who would be played by McGrady's sister-in-law Billie Young.
After selling 20,000 copies, McGrady went on The David Frost Show and told America that it was all a lie. It sold 70,000 more copies after that.
According to The Washington Post, "Mr. McGrady and the other writers had nothing to do with the hardcore film with the same title. They did, however, see the movie at a Times Square theater. During one vivid scene, Aronson told The Charlotte Observer, someone shouted "Author, author! Seventeen of us stood up."
Working under his Henry Paris name for directing (his middle name and favorite city) and Jake Barnes (teh narrator of Hemmingway's The Sun Also Rises) for writing, Radley Metzger created this adult adaption of the book. Gilly (Darby Lloyd Rains) and Billy (Levi Richards) host a morning show. He's always been able to sleep around in the marriage - she catches him with their assistant Phyllis (Mary Stuart) - but something has always held her back. This will be the day in which she unleashes herself, even if it keeps ending up in failure.
When she finally gets it together, she has a memorable moment with Marvin (Alan Marlow) in the second floor of a bus in a daring scene shot with no permits, obviously. She also gets Phyllis for herself and even has a classy silent movie black and white love scene with Teddy (Grant Taylor).
If the movie they're watching in the beginning seems familiar, it's British freakout Bizarre AKA Secrets of Sex.