# in Fred Niblo's Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925), in two-color Technicolor, a remarkable segment showed rows of bare-breasted flower girls dancing in a pageant/procession as they tossed flowers to the crowd lining the street
# a decadent orgy scene and semi-nude musicians in Erich von Stroheim's silent operetta The Merry Widow (1925), and the sexually-excessive depiction of a wickedly-decadent Queen Regina in von Stroheim's tawdry, grotesque and fragmentary film Queen Kelly (1929)
# creen lover John Barrymore starred in Don Juan (1926) with Mary Astor and Estelle Taylor, a film with a record number of kisses (reportedly 127)
# romantic lead John Gilbert (the sexy successor to Rudolph Valentino) played opposite exotic vamp Greta Garbo in her star-making film Flesh and the Devil (1926)
# Lili Damita, Hope Hampton, and Sue Carol all briefly appeared in the nude in respectively - Michael Curtiz' Red Heels (1925, Austrian) (aka Das Spielzeug von Paris), the melodramatic Lover's Island (1925), and the lost film In Line of Duty (1931)
# flapper icon Clara Bow, dubbed the "It" girl during the 20s and one of the earliest sex symbols, appeared nude as Hula Calhoun in an opening bathing scene, and performed a sexy hula dance, in the romantic comedy Hula (1927)
# American actress Louise Brooks was featured as an amoral and insatiable cabaret star/prostitute Lulu in G. W. Pabst's classic German silent film melodrama Pandora's Box (1929, Ger.) with blatant sexual themes, a memorable lesbian dance/tango scene with Countess Anna Geschwitz (Alice Roberts) during Lulu's wedding party, and her murder by the infamous 'Jack the Ripper' killer with a gleaming knifeblade stuck into her stomach during an erotic embrace
# actress Kay Johnson starred as a wicked woman in Cecil B. De Mille's bizarre Madam Satan (1930) - a film that challenged the code with a racy party sequence aboard a zeppelin
# German expressionistic director F. W. Murnau's last film (co-scripted with pioneering documentary film-maker Robert J. Flaherty) presented a lush tale of ill-fated native South Seas love (with flower-garlanded, bare-breasted native dancers) and the breaking of a sexual tabu (filmed entirely on location in Tahiti) - a very-late black/white silent film Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931) - and an Oscar-winning effort for Floyd Crosby's cinematography
