In the Trees

The cream on top of this bathtub of milk is pretty French actress Brigitte Bardot. In a movie being made in Rome, she plays Nero's beautiful wife, Poppea, who's supposed to have accomplished her ablutions in a marble pool filled with the milk of she-asses. Fact or fiction, the business makes a nice scene for the film Nero's Big Weekend, 1956.

“Reaching for the sky on tiptoe, the barefoot advocate shows how to keep those curves. Walking is the only exercise Marilyn takes to keep her figure at its present proportions.”

Marilyn Monroe, February 1951