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Salome. (1953 film) Salome is a 1953 American drama Biblical film directed by William Dieterle and produced by Buddy Adler from a screenplay by Harry Kleiner and Jesse Lasky Jr. The music score was by George Duning, the dance music by Daniele Amfitheatrof and the cinematography by Charles Lang. Rita Hayworth's costumes were designed by Jean Louis.
In the reign of emperor Tiberius, Gallilean prophet John the Baptist preaches against King Herod and Queen Herodias. The latter wants John dead, but Herod fears to harm him due to a prophecy. Enter beautiful Princess Salome, Herod's long-absent stepdaughter. Herodias sees the king's dawning lust for Salome as her means of bending the king to her will. But Salome and her lover Claudius are ...
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The Legion gave the film a "B" rating upon its release. Columbia came under strong criticism by the Allied States Association of Motion Picture Exhibitors for limiting prerelease engagements of Salome to qualifying theaters in cities of 75,000 people or more and charging higher admission prices. The story of Salome has been filmed many times.
- William Dieterle, Earl Bellamy
- Rita Hayworth
The story was well-known in Victorian America due to a popular play penned by Oscar Wilde and a Strauss opera widely performed in American cities in the first decade of the twentieth century. Salome was a representation of female sexuality and oriental exoticism, and this poster may have enticed potential viewers by eschewing photographs in ...
The Temptress is a 1926 American silent romantic drama film directed by Fred Niblo and starring Greta Garbo, Antonio Moreno, Lionel Barrymore, and Roy D'Arcy. It premiered on October 10, 1926. The film melodrama was based on a novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez adapted for the screen by Dorothy Farnum.
Salome is the 1953 biblical drama directed by William Dieterie. Starring Rita Hayworth, Stewart Granger and Charles Laughton in a story of Princess Salome who is cast out of Rome and falls in love with the commander of her fathers army whilst her evil mother plots to exploit Salome to get a prophet killed.
Rita Hayworth's Salome tries to save John the Baptist from losing his head to the sword of King Herod (played with marvelous scene-chewing by Charles Laughton) reversing the traditional story that she was responsible for his death. In this biblical drama, Hayworth dances the "Dance of the Seven Veils."
