Salome
- Director: Charles Bryant
- Writer: Oscar Wilde; Natacha Rambova
- Producer: Alla Nazimova
CGiii Comment
It's as camp as a Gaultier bra...
The acting is abysmal - however, historically, it is rather important.
But...it is an acquired taste - no matter what film historians say.
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The(ir) Blurb...
Alla Nazimova and Charles Bryant’s adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé, and the combination is fitting, as the latter is an equally homoerotic riff on scripture. In reference, no doubt, to the film’s Aubrey Beardsley–inspired mise en scène and rumors of its exclusively gay casting, Kenneth Anger dubbed it “Nancy-Prancy-Pansy-Piffle and just too qu**r for words.”
Cast & Characters
Mitchell Lewis as Herod, Tetrarch of Judea;
Alla Nazimova as Salome, stepdaughter of Herod;
Rose Dione as Herodias, wife of Herod;
Earl Schenck as Narraboth, Captain of the Guard;
Arthur Jasmine as Page of Herodias;
Nigel De Brulier as Jokaanan, the Prophet;
Frederick Peters as Naaman, the Executioner;
Louis Dumar as Tigellinus