I just watched 'Voyage To The Bottom of the Sea' (1961) for the first time a couple of weeks ago.

First time we see Barbara Eden, we get a close-up of her derrierre, shaking to Frankie Avalon's trumpet-playing. I mean nothing but her butt, from waist to thigh, going to and fro.

Now Babs Eden is a very lovely young woman, a total standout in most of what she does (did), but the woman has eyes, legs and breasts as well.

Upon seeing this, I added it to the list I had in my mind of obvious attempts to sensationalize a young woman for her hip action, all from movies about this time.

Now we know this is all derived from Marilyn Monroe walking across a street in one of her movies and becoming totally overblown as a sex symbol (I believe she has a pout in another movie, as well as the street vent blowing scene).

Hey, it worked for Marilyn, let's do it to Barbara Eden in "Voyage To the Bottom of the Sea"

The other two I know of are Madelyn Rhue in "Mad Mad Mad Mad World" (1963) when Spencer Tracy tells her to get some coffee and everyone watches her walk.

And "Please Don't Eat The Daisies" with Janis Paige of all people, as an actress that critic David Niven had insulted. We are then treated to a couple of shots of nothing else but Paige from the waist down walking away. No sound, nothing else at all, just her wiggle.

Now these are all lovely women to watch, especially Eden, but to deliberately attempt to manipulate an audience into going va-va-va-voom sorely under-estimates the intelligence of one's audience.

The only other one I can recall remotely like this has to be Gable not wearing the t-shirt.

I watched In Old Chicago, and I think there was a clear attempt to emphasize that Tyrone Power likewise wasn't wearing a t-shirt (tho I don't think such garments were prevalent at that time in history), we just get a closeup of Power changing his shirt.

It would have been a year after Gable's wardrobe revelation, so I figured that was what it was after.

What amuses me most of all was that Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Mad World and Don't Eat Daisies were all within such close proximity to one another.

I bet if I checked out a couple of other movies from this time period, completely at random as I did these, I could find other walking wigglers, trying to be non-chalant with their intentions and dupe an unsuspecting audience.

Or can anyone provide some more like this?

Thought of one after I posted; the infamous Barrymore profile, probably first noticed by fans.

The most blatant here for me would have to be William Powell. While Powell had a very distinctive profile of his own, he is much more noteworthy as an actor in his movies and not for his profile, but clearly he stood in profile quite a bit, because he is made fun of in WB cartoons by stepping into profile (when we are also subjected to the over-used joke of him being the THIN man) and we see his face in profile as well.

Yes, when Ross Hunter glamorized Doris Day (he told her she had the hottest a@@ in Hollywood), there's a shot of her hip action while dancing in - I think it's "Pillow Talk."

William Holden in Sunset Boulevard is a complete sex symbol when he's shirtless. What a man.

Whenever that took place with Doris Day, Pillow Talk or another movie, would definitely qualify.

I suppose it would have been the same if after Jacqueline Bisset wore the wet t-shirt in The Island (or whatever that movie was called), we were inundated with endless actresses in various movies, for no apparent reason, all wearing wet t-shirts, as tho it would increase the audience numbers because they did so.

It was one thing for them to be a sex symbol, it seems to be something else when there is an attempt to fabricate them as such.

Funnier still, Barbara Eden and Madelyn Rhue were relatively new at that time, so they could qualify, but I think Janis Paige had nearly two decades under her belt by that time, appearing in films and such.

Makes her look like she was grasping at straws big time before her hour glass ran out.

Granted, the same could be said for catchphrases. I think I've heard that a movie with Mickey Roarke was strived to acquire a cult status when it was still new, no idea which one.

And I think a movie with Clint Eastwood and John Malkovich, if that was the one, tried to get a catchphrase going for it.

I just can't get over three actresses in three different movies, all within a matter of barely 3 years, getting the same camera shots, but I'm sure Doris' counts as well.