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Imogen Millais-Scott went blind three weeks before filming after contracting glandular fever but Russell insisted on still using her. It has been suggested that she was too weak to perform the dance sequence and a body double was used, but in any case a male of similar build performs Salome's dance and, at one point, flashes male genitals.
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Jan 4, 2024 · Oscar Wilde (Nickolas Grace), Lady Alice (Glenda Jackson), and Alfred Taylor (Stratford Johns), in Salome’s Last Dance (1988). Glenda Jackson is, of course, the entire reason I actually wanted to sit through the film, but she was almost instantly eclipsed by the gleefully scene-chewy Imogen Millais-Scott, who played Salome.
Sep 14, 2019 · As a group of prostitutes runs through a bizarre and bawdy version of the play — which retells the story of Herod, his daughter and the execution of John the Baptist — Wilde responds to the sexual advances of a handsome young man. Director: Ken Russell. Stars: Glenda Jackson, Stratford Johns, Nickolas Grace, Douglas Hodge, Imogen Millais ...
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London, England, November 5th, 1892, Guy Fawkes Night. The famous playwright Oscar Wilde and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas discreetly go to a luxury brothel where the owner, Alfred Taylor, has prepared a surprise for the renowned author: a private and very special performance of his play Salome, banned by the authorities, in which Taylor himself and the peculiar inhabitants of the exclusive ...
Apr 6, 2010 · Imogen Millais-Scott. Salome’s Last Dance is currently unavailable on DVD unless you want to pay a large amount of money for a secondhand copy. Lindsay Kemp’s queer-as-fuck adaptation was probably closest in contemporary terms to the scandalous power of the original but we don’t have a film of that, unfortunately.
May 6, 1988 · Mr. Russell's casting of Miss Millais-Scott as both Rose and Salome was a risk that pays off brilliantly. The actress, whose first film role this is, is not anybody's idea of the Salome of seven ...
Salome's Last Dance. Vivian Russell, Ken Russell. Novel: Oscar Wilde. Comedy. Drama | Biography. Late on Guy Fawkes Day, 1892, Oscar Wilde arrives at a high-class brothel where a surprise awaits: a staging of his play "Salome," with parts played by prostitutes, Wilde's host, his lover Bosey, and Lady Alice. The movie moves between the play and ...
