Rae Kidd

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Rae Kidd (born June 15, 1917; died April 2, 1962) is an American film actress who played the lead role (of Rae Lane) in the controversial nudist film The Unashamed (1938). The film has been studied for its commentary on race, class and the possibility of idylls within 20th Century life.

She claimed to be a descendant of the pirate William "Captain" Kidd.

[edit] Notes

See Beyond the Pale: Nudism, Race, and Resistance in "The Unashamed", Robert M. Payne, Film Quarterly, Vol. 54, No. 2 (Winter, 2000-2001), pp. 27-40. [1]

[edit] External links

• Rae Kidd at the Internet Movie Database