Salomé

Salomé (1923)

Based on Oscar Wilde's play, the films tells the story of how Salomé agrees to dance for King Herod in return for the head of John the Baptist.

Data lansării
1923-02-15
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (39)
Durată
1 h 14 min
Genuri
Dramă, Fantasy, Horror
Regizor
Charles Bryant

Distribuție

Curiozități

  • Buget: 350 K USD

Salomé is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Charles Bryant. The film stars Alla Nazimova, Mitchell Lewis, Rose Dione, Earl Schenck, Arthur Jasmine, Nigel De Brulier, Frederick Peters and Louis Dumar.

Background and production

Nazimova financed the project herself at a cost of $350,000 to $400,000, and initially had difficulty finding a distributor for the film. The screenplay is credited to Peter M. Winters, which was a pseudonym for Nazimova The film was shot during January and February 1922. Nazimova's Salomé would be the first full-scale production of Wilde's play by a woman.

Nazimova hired set designer Natacha Rambova, who was reportedly Nazimova's sometime lover and wife of Rudolph Valentino, to create the costumes for the film, with both women citing Aubrey Beardsley as an inspiration for the elaborate costumes. Rambova insisted that all the fabric for the costumes be imported from Maison Lewis in Paris.

Nazimova, who was forty-two at the time the film was made, insisted on depicting the princess as a fourteen-year-old adolescent. Film photographer Charles Van Enger used subtle control of lighting to help mask her age, and Rambova designed special costumes to make Nazimova appear thinner and younger, which were effective in medium and long-range shots of the actress.

Paul Ivano, the assistant cinematographer, recalled that the lighting effects, especially for the court scenes and the Shadow of Death sequence were time consuming. He went on to say that "several times when we were shooting big scenes, we stayed in the studio until four o'clock in the morning and returned at nine.

Multiple sources have stated that the film's cast is composed entirely of gay or bisexual actors in an homage to Oscar Wilde. According to queer film historian Vito Russo, censors "were horrified" with the film, and ordered the elimination of several scenes, one which included a homosexual relationship between two Syrian soldiers.

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