I admire nudity and I like sex, and so did a lot of people in the Thirties. But, to me, overexposure blunts the fun…Sex as something beautiful may soon disappear. Once it was a knife so finely honed the edge was invisible until it was touched and then it cut deep. Now it is so blunt that it merely bruises and leaves ugly marks. Nudity is fine in the privacy of my own bedroom with the appropriate partner. Or for a model in life class at art school. Or as portrayed in stone and paint. But I don’t like it used as a joke or to titillate. Or be so bloody frank about.

She filmed her final scene with Cecil Kellaway at Oak Alley Plantation in southern Louisiana. She later said that while working on the latter Mary Astor "absorbed and assumed something of the atmosphere and emotional climate of the picture. She was photographed by Life magazine riding an adult tricycle on the grounds.

Mary Astor (born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke; May 3 1906 – September 25 1987) was an American actress. Overcoming these stumbling blocks in her private life Astor went on to even greater success on the screen eventually winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Sandra Kovak in The Great Lie (1941).