- Salome (1953 film)
Infobox Film
name = Salome
caption = Original film poster
director =William Dieterle
producer =Buddy Adler
writer =Jesse Lasky Jr. (story)
Harry Kleiner (story)
starring =Rita Hayworth Stewart Granger Charles Laughton
music =Daniele Amfitheatrof George Duning
cinematography =Charles Lang
editing =Viola Lawrence
distributor =
released =24 March 1953
runtime = 103 min.
country =USA
language = English
budget =
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followed_by =
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imdb_id = 0046269: "This article is about the 1953 film. For other uses see
Salome (disambiguation) ""Salome" (1953) is a Biblicalepic film made inTechnicolor byColumbia Pictures . It was directed byWilliam Dieterle and produced byBuddy Adler from ascreenplay byHarry Kleiner andJesse Lasky Jr. The music score was byGeorge Duning , the dance music byDaniele Amfitheatrof and the cinematography byCharles Lang . Hayworth's costumes byJean Louis . Hayworth's dances for this film were choreographed byValerie Bettis . This film was the last produced by Hayworth's production company, the Beckworth Corporation.The film starred
Rita Hayworth asSalome , as well asStewart Granger ,Charles Laughton andJudith Anderson , withCedric Hardwicke ,Alan Badel andBasil Sydney .Plot
Although based on the
New Testament story, the film does not follow the biblical text. Salome falls in love with a heroic Roman soldier (Granger) who becomes a Christian convert. In a direct reversal of the Biblical text, she dances for Herod to "save" John the Baptist from being beheaded, but is unsuccessful. Horrified, she renounces her mother Herodias, who planned and ordered the execution, and also becomes a Christian convert. The last scene shows Hayworth and Granger listening to Christ (whose face is not shown) delivering theSermon on the Mount .Dance of the seven veils According to her biographers Hayworth's erotic dance routine was "the most demanding of her entire career", necessitating "endless takes and retakes". [Edward Z. Epstein and Joseph Morella (1984) "Rita: The Life of Rita Hayworth". London, Comet: 200]
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