‘The Naked Venus’ is a 1959 film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and written by Gaston Hakim and Gabriel Gort. The film is centred around Yvonne Duval Dixon, played by Patricia Conelle, a French model and naturist who has to convince the court that she is fit to be the mother of her daughter, Sherie (Sherie Elms), after Yvonne’s mother-in-law (Wynn Gregory) convinces her son, Robert (Don Roberts), to divorce Yvonne and take sole custody of Sherie, on the grounds that Yvonne is unfit to be a mother because she is a naturist.
The film also features Arianne Ulmer (credited as Ariane Arden) as Lynn Wingate (Yvonne’s lawyer).
An interesting fact about this film, is that Edgar was raised by naturists, and the film certainly feels like he took more care with the depiction of naturism than many of the films that would end up coming out over the next decade.