Thank you for allowing me to see what people wouĺd have seen 100 years ago!

As a passionate admirer of Alla Nazimova’s nephew Val Lewton since my teens (I’m 63) I’ve read about her many times, but until now had only seen her in stills. Thank you for a fascinating gift!

@GildaTabarez

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

Wow ! Fantastic ! Poses must have influenced all those 1930s bronzes and figurines you see. Always loved Aubrey Beardsley drawings ❤

Pretty outrageous stuff for the times. I wonder what people thought when they first saw this over 100 years ago...some of her looks would make a comeback in the punk/new wave era of the 80's.

@amandawhiteley6737

Ай бұрын

Yes it did the black eyeliner, fuzzy bleached hair dark lips Nothing new I suppose.

@DavidBostock-ti2fv

Ай бұрын

It bombed. Now it's a cult film Interesting set and costumes. I won't watch it a second time.

@brucebennett5338

29 күн бұрын

right?! isn't that Debbie Harry? ;)

@josealfredobeiraofilho506

22 күн бұрын

Pensei exatamentew a mesma coisa! Um escandalo para a época.

@dadautube

21 күн бұрын

you're right of course ... but the fashionistas of the Roaring `20s were quite punkish and outrageous in most of their styles back in the day ... just check out other movies and photos of the era and you'll surely agree with me ... some skirts were almost mini-jupe in some instances ... 🙂 if you watch Fritz Lang's masterpiece, Metropolis, made in the same era only a few years later, you'd see similar traits, and some full nude performances ... there were actual sexual intercourse scenes in some Hollywood movies of the pre-code era too! Hedy Lamarr acted in one such 'naughty' scene for example ...

Marvellous to see this so well preserved - a cultural gem

PROBABLY THE EPITOME OF AN EARLY MASTERWORK OF THE XX CENTURY DIFFICULT TO LABEL WITH SUCH FORMIDABLE ASSEMBLAGE OF TALENT FROM DIFFERENT FINE ARTS: THE OSCAR WILDE POEM, THE STRAUSS MUSIC, THE CINEMATOGRAPHY, THE ACTING AND DANCING OF THE TROUPE, THE STAGING, THE COSTUMES, ETC. ETC. …. AND THE MAGIC OF YOU TUBE. THANK YOU GILDA FOR SUCH A MARVELOUS GIFT.

@GildaTabarez

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much! I'm very happy you enjoyed it.

@philipb2134

Ай бұрын

Why are you screaming???

@0oo00

Ай бұрын

@@philipb2134 they're so wicked smaaaaaaht!

@robkunkel8833

18 күн бұрын

I find it difficult to read all capital letters when it should be properly written. Pathologists refer to this as early dialectic confusion. It is like impaired vision but on a pathological level. Was this comment complementary? … it seemed like a major piece of film. Anybody agree?

@GildaTabarez

18 күн бұрын

​@@robkunkel8833I had never heard of your condition but a quick search revealed to me that it does indeed exist. I used an app called Case Converter for Android to quickly convert the complimentary comment for you: "Probably the epitome of an early masterwork of the XX century difficult to label with such formidable assemblage of talent from different fine arts: the Oscar Wilde poem, the Strauss music, the cinematography, the acting and dancing of the troupe, the staging, the costumes, etc. etc. and the magic of KZread. Thank you, Gilda, for such a marvelous gift." Please note that this video consists only of selected scenes. There are several complete versions of the film on KZread with different music. For the sake of comparison, I have also uploaded select scenes from "Salomé" (1969), a French film starring prima ballerina and actress, Ludmilla Tchérina.

This film shows John the Baptist is as obsessed with Salome as she is with him. Locked together in a Dance of Death. I haven't seen this in a long time. Thanks for the good quality video!

@sheebafan13

11 күн бұрын

There is a kind of passionate love that supersedes everything reasonable.

@suzannederringer1607

9 күн бұрын

@@sheebafan13 It's not love - it's unbridled eroticism.

Wow. The art imagery. Every shot is a treasure.

@dontaylor7315

Ай бұрын

So evocative of Beardsley I kept taking screenshots.

昔，ヌレエフ主演の映画「バレンチノ」にアラ・ナジモワとその恋人の女性も描かれていて，この動画のヘアスタイルにしたナジモワ役の女優がルドルフ・バレンチノの葬儀にすごい衣装でやってきて棺に泣き伏すというポーズで新聞の一面を飾るという写真が激写されていました。 なかなか芸術的な作品でじっと見入ってしまいます。 衣装や構図が凝っていて楽しいです。

Like @GrantTarradeus, I came to this via my admiration for Val Lewton, Nazimova's nephew (he grew up in her house from the age of 5, his father having squandered the family's wealth gambling). But I also adore Richard Strauss, Oscar Wilde, the Decadent movement, and Salome's legacy as an inspiration to the early modernists. Wow. Now I must add Alla Nazimova to the pantheon. She was the catalyst for this amazing production. Her capitalization on the story's inherent critique of the male gaze in cinema is nothing short of astonishing. Thank you for sharing it!

@GildaTabarez

25 күн бұрын

Thank you for your very interesting comment! I'm glad that you appreciate Nazimova's contribution to the art of cinema.

Did you know that she pattern the outfits and set from the influence of AUBREY BEARDSLEY? She always fascinated me. I just adore the silent films of yesterday.

@laurahaskins123

Ай бұрын

He,

@ashlynsminkey3066

22 күн бұрын

Aubrey is a man, and the channel did know that it's literally in the opening credits

Herod's wife looked like she stumbled in from a hippie enclave.

@GildaTabarez

Ай бұрын

This production was way ahead of its time.

@lyndafjellman3315

Ай бұрын

Her outfit is great! You really see the Aubrey Beardsley influence.

@firebird2

Ай бұрын

The 1960s were inspired by the 1920s, fashion and culture. The historical pendulum swings between Apollo and Dionysis, classic and roccocco, conservation and experimentation. Humans are a lot of fun!

@coreycox2345

Ай бұрын

She was quite a looker, @thurayya8905.

@lightofthejul

Ай бұрын

I was thinking the sand thing !

One can only imagine what this was like live, the colors, and the sound.

Thrilled to see this again. ‘Hi it’s Me. I’m the Film Geek, it’s Me’.

Crazy! Love the guys in the band!

Well that was quite something. Very interesting. The dancing and the veils were rather notably by their absence. But it was pretty amusing none the less.

Fantastic. Fabulous acting, sets, filming. That titan Strauss's music is perfect. Wow.

@GildaTabarez

Ай бұрын

Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it!

Yes, a classic! The music by Strauss, though augmented to fit the image, is ideal! Truly a beautiful presentation!

@GildaTabarez

Ай бұрын

Thank you, so glad you enjoyed it!

@dontaylor7315

Ай бұрын

Thanks for confirming Strauss is in there somewhere. It's changed enough that I really wasn't sure. Thought the score might just be making occasional allusions to the opera.

@GildaTabarez

Ай бұрын

​@@dontaylor7315As stated in the video description, two versions of The Dance of the Seven Veils by Richard Strauss are played in their entirety with oboe and flute solo excerpts in the middle. There is no other music in the soundtrack aside from Strauss.

@dontaylor7315

Ай бұрын

@@GildaTabarez Thank you. Clearly I should have read the description.

Lordy! She was 43 when this was filmed!

@marylou3995

20 күн бұрын

She looks 12!

The last time she did the dance of the seven veils, six of her veils were in the laundry so it was a fast dance.

@GildaTabarez

Ай бұрын

Thanx for unveiling the truth! 😄

@catherinelheathcliff

6 күн бұрын

😂😂

Thank You so much for the upload. When Art meant a sublime detailed research moved by an utter Passion. With my all admiration and regards.

@GildaTabarez

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much! I'm very glad you enjoyed it.

First time I've seen this. Thanks for posting.

@GildaTabarez

Ай бұрын

Thank you, so glad you enjoyed it!

What a strange thing in such a time.

Amazing piece of restoration of a silent film So clear and great set designs

Great to see this. Wonderfully atmospheric. Not too sure about the dancing though.

When The Huntington Hartford Museum at 2 Columbus Circle (now something else) inaugurated it's film program in the late 1960s, the first film shown was Salome starring Nazimova. The guest for the day was Oscar Wilde's (now elderly) youngest son! His name was now Vyvyan Holland and he was the author of cook books.

The music of Strauss!

É de uma vanguarda difícil de se imaginar para a época. E para hoje, também! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

@lawrence8374

Ай бұрын

Thank you for your insightful comments. Art Deco everywhere And the scenes being shown. Nazimova, and Isadora Duncan championed modern dance a century ago. It may look a bit clunky to us now but it was true heartfelt emotion back then.

Amazing! Beautiful, thank you so very much.

@GildaTabarez

Ай бұрын

Thank you too! I'm delighted that you enjoyed it.

This stuff is brilliant! The acting is marvelous

Wow! Thank you!

That was mesmerizing,!! Thank you!

@GildaTabarez

Ай бұрын

Thank you too! I'm so glad you enjoyed it.

Wonderful ! Amazing !

Beautiful. ❤

Marvellous !

A marvelous piece of film preservation snd a superb example of a classic silent art piece but I must say one of the least sexy Dance of the Seven Vails I’ve ever seen ! Sorry but nothing to give up much of anything for ! But the set designs are great !

@GildaTabarez

Ай бұрын

Some people have been criticizing Nazimova's dance as stiff, corny, boring, ungraceful, etc. I think she danced pretty well for not being a dancer by profession. Not all dancers can act or direct as well as Alla Nazimova did. We can't have everything. Vaslav Nijinsky's choreography was also considered modern and anti-balletic. They were breaking new ground back then. Which dancer or actress of that time would you have cast in the part of Salomé? Martha Graham, Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis, Theda Bara, Pola Negri, Vilma Banky, Louise Brooks? Do you think they would have acted as well as Nazimova? She was one of the most brilliant theater actresses of her era. Artists weren't allowed to act or dance in an overtly sensual manner in the early 1920s. The Hays Office was first established in 1922. Perhaps that's why the story of Salomé wasn't filmed more often. The only other silent film about Salomé based on Oscar Wilde's play that I could find was "A Modern Salome" (1920) starring Hope Hampton. Unfortunately, it is a lost film.

@aliceputt3133

Ай бұрын

She’s fantastic actress and the entire production is impressive . But her dance abilities were very limited. Worst bourees ever but it’s amazing for the time and very enjoyable.

@fugithegreat

Ай бұрын

I was just thinking that even I could improvise a dance of this quality, and I can't dance to save my life. 😂 And Herod's overreaction when she hasn't even started moving yet is just hysterical. It's an interesting artifact of early film, for sure!

@GildaTabarez

Ай бұрын

@@fugithegreat Your saying you could dance better is an overreaction.

@MichaelWitt-tx5zv

29 күн бұрын

Maybe she expected Johan Strauss. Way more danceable.

Прекрасная игра артистов 😂😂😂 Но это всё равно очень трогательно и наивно 😢😢😢 Браво людям подарившим Нам в 21 веке такие прекрасные фильмы об искусстве 19- 20 веков - ведь эти артисты жили в парадигме 19 века .❤❤❤

Thanks for sharing

Maravilhoso assistir a essa película restaurada do Cinema mudo de 1923. Salomé, ato II, uma obra-prima de R. Strauss e grande elenco de atores. Parabéns ao canal.

@GildaTabarez

22 күн бұрын

Muito obrigado! Estou tão feliz que você tenha gostado.

Fascinante representación! Gracias...

@GildaTabarez

Ай бұрын

Gracias por comentar.

What a revelation! I just wish the print was as clear as the music. Thank you for sharing, Gilda!

@GildaTabarez

20 күн бұрын

Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it. The version shown here was restored by The Library of Congress and Lobster Films from a nitrate print preserved by Film Preservation Associates Inc. As you can see by comparison in the following review video, they cleaned up the print very nicely: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZGmt1M6aobnHYpM.htmlsi=6rSHGHFJ_5Fsu7b1 I added the music by Richard Strauss for KZread.

Well, That was... interesting.

What a gift it was to watch.

@GildaTabarez

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

today is June 24...the Feast of John the Baptist...and they are featuring this. whoah.

@GildaTabarez

9 күн бұрын

@@michaelmiller2397 This video was uploaded a month ago. The complete film and excerpts have been available on KZread for years. No disrespect is intended towards the cousin of Jesus. Happy Saint John the Baptist Day!

This is the strangest thing.

It is wonderful ! so intense , expressive , great creativity ! Beautiful ❤❤❤

WOW--they nailed it 1922--and labor of love to synch a good clear strauss audio with it--thank you so much, gilda

Oooooooh. scarey! But so fascinating. Thanks!

@JLajos

27 күн бұрын

Count Floyd, what are you doing here? Awoooooo! 😄

They could've had showers and shampoo and conditioner back then. Lol

Bravo 🎉

Excellent, as always, Gilda.

@GildaTabarez

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much, Linda!

Magnificent! It must have been scandalous back in the day. They could only get away with it, if it was a biblical narrative. Beautifully edited! Thank you!

@GildaTabarez

Ай бұрын

Thanks so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Thanks.

This is precious! Thanks for sharing!

@GildaTabarez

Ай бұрын

Thank you! So glad you enjoyed it.

ありがとうございます。

in 1922 those bare shoulders and form fitting costumes with short skirts were scandalous!

Amazing, luminous performance.

This is just how I pictured it.

More, more 👏👏👏

My uncle was a year old, dad was born in ‘27 the year of talkies and mom wouldn’t be born until ‘31. My paternal grandfather was 22 my maternal grandmother was 18 and my maternal grandfather was 22 hen this film was made.

Cool ♥️🌹

The mind boggled -- but i could not look away.

Dad's a little too excited if you know what I mean.

@hortenseweinblatt1508

Ай бұрын

Not a lot happens around there. Plus he does not get out much.

@dorothyjohnson6743

Ай бұрын

Yes, he is, I agree with you

@gbeachy2010

Ай бұрын

He told his concubine that she reminded him of his daughter.

@kimkranker6110

Ай бұрын

Salome's his step-niece. Yeah, he's getting just a bit too carried away here. This version is interesting, but you have to see The Dance of the Seven Veils in a great performance of Strauss' actual opera with a real professional ballet dancer. This performance is quite lackluster - for me anyway.

@kimkranker6110

Ай бұрын

😅 He was one of Trump's ancient ancestors! ​@@gbeachy2010

Дивно је видети ове старе снимке као сведочанство времена.

I saw this when I was verry young and it staid with me the way Telly Tubbies does with toddlers today. She seemed to glow and all the odd characters where small like me .(At the time) Until YT I would never have had any idear what it was ,it was just, almost an image.

Everybody criticizing Nazimova's dancing, maybe you'd like Ludmilla Tcherina's dancing better: kzread.info/dash/bejne/nmR_mrGmhZPAeaQ.htmlsi=0EnjQQNrdlg8qdog The full-length Salomé (1969) is here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/gpiTmJOKfb3YdbA.htmlsi=Xjy9BIfDPM2xLo1O Ludmilla Tcherina was 45 years old when she portrayed Salomé, a year older than Nazimova. Tcherina could both act and dance. I remenber seeing this film as a child on PBS and never forgot it.

@lesleyearltempleton

16 күн бұрын

Oh my word - I just watched the clip you recommended- incredible incredible !

@GildaTabarez

16 күн бұрын

​@@lesleyearltempletonSo glad you enjoyed it. I have uploaded the complete dance and other scenes featuring the beautiful and talented Ludmilla Tchérina here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/enh-y7qxfZW7prw.htmlsi=9Z19imJa3dh4PwYX

Depiction of a 🎬 scene that is not so easy to portray!

I read Wilde's play. Interesting seeing it in a live-action film.

A very early Fellini film.

Chilling.

According to several sources, the Hays Code was not applied to any films until 1934. Hays and his associates did start getting together in 1922 but they did not complete their rules and get cooperation for enforcement until 1934. If anyone restricted dance movements in this movie, it wasn't due to Hays.

@GildaTabarez

Ай бұрын

You are correct, but my point was that the Hays Code was created at this time due to the prevailing moral climate of that era. The play was banned in Britain. Approval was withheld because of a rule prohibiting the depiction of biblical characters on stage. The ban on public performance of Salome in England was not lifted until 1931. In my opinion, even the famous dance of Robot Maria in Metropolis (1927) was quite restrained even though Germany was not as prudish in the 1920s as America. I think just common decency stopped film actresses from twerking and writhing around the way we're used to seeing today. Can you give me an example of a truly sexy dance performance in a silent film by today's standards?

@GildaTabarez

Ай бұрын

I just thought of a silent film with a beautiful, sensual dance -- Anna May Wong in Piccadilly (1929), but there was little to no chance she would be cast in the title role of a film about Salome. There were lots of restrictions back then.

@marthawelch4289

Ай бұрын

@@GildaTabarez The movies and the morals of the 1920's in the United States were not yet ruled by the Hays Code of 1934. Movie moguls were busy producing movies that made lots of money and they weren't really interested in killing their cash cows. The era of the 1920's was often called the "Roaring 20's" and featured shorter skirts and rouged knees for the ladies and the wild dances of the Charleston and the Black Bottom. Here are some entertainments of the 10's and 20's that I believe contain dances/movements that weren't stiff or jerky: * Afternoon of a Fawn performed by the great Nijinski (movie short of the ballet) * The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse silent with a tango performed by Valentino. * The Sheik with dance movements by Valentino (American women went wild for anything Rudy did) * Broadway theatre dance pieces performed by the Ziegfeld Girls * Vaudeville and burlesque performers such as Sally Rand and her Fan Dance

@GildaTabarez

Ай бұрын

@@marthawelch4289 Well, there would be no silent film about Oscar Wilde's Salomé without Nazimova. Is there a Ziegfeld girl or a fan dancer who could act as well as she did? Even if there were, no one else was going to make such a film. She deserves some credit for making one of the first art films, which is a lot different from vaudeville, burlesque or popular dances of the time. Males didn't dance in a suggestive manner until Elvis Presley, except for Nijinsky as the Faun, but it caused a huge scandal.

The midget musicians with the crazy hats are amazing

Possibly Frankie Howard’s earliest work. 😂

Now I see why she wanted the head of John the Baptist.

@hurdygurdyguy1

Ай бұрын

Salome had nothing to do with wanting the head of John the Baptist... it was her mother, Herodias who wanted John killed (he'd been insulting and vilifying her in public). At the feast Salome's dancing so enthralled Herod ("I'd probably be dating her if she weren't my daughter!) he then granted her any request. Herodias prompted her to ask her for John's head who was then beheaded. Herod knew this would cause trouble but, whaddaya gonna do, a vow's a vow, eh?

...silvery shadows on a screen accompanied by music and sentiments expressed by emotion filled face and body movements...

What a stir this must have caused when first relaesed.

wow

Wonderful, lovely, true art! Great in every respect! ❤

A classic. n

All young women go through this phase. Could this be any more fin de siecle?

@JiveDadson

Ай бұрын

End of what? Century?

@GildaTabarez

Ай бұрын

​@@JiveDadson"Fin de Siècle is a French phrase meaning 'end of century' and is applied specifically as a historical term to the end of the nineteenth century and even more specifically to decade of 1890s. Fin de Siècle is an umbrella term embracing symbolism, decadence and all related phenomena (e.g. art nouveau) which reached a peak in 1890s. Although almost synonymous with other terms such as the Eighteen- Nineties, the Mauve Decade, the Yellow Decade and the Naughty Nineties, the fin de siècle however expresses an apocalyptic sense of the end of a phase of civilisation. The real end of this era came not in 1900 but with First World War 1914." -- Tate www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/f/fin-de-siecle#:~:text=Fin%20de%20Si%C3%A8cle%20is%20a,specifically%20to%20decade%20of%201890s

@jennifercatherine7675

Ай бұрын

Could you lend some insight please into the phase young women go through? I'm unsure of the context and fear I am poorly educated.

@davidmayhew8083

Ай бұрын

@@jennifercatherine7675 I was joking. But it is fin de siecle, 1900ish.

@jennifercatherine7675

Ай бұрын

@davidmayhew8083 joking about what though? That's what I'm asking about..I don't understand and I was hoping you'd explain. It's not your fault I'm an idiot.

a little masterpiece of a great classical work : the set, the costumes, the music, performance, everything! pity the copy is so low quality ... 😞

@GildaTabarez

21 күн бұрын

There is a remastered DVD version or the high-definition Blu-ray Disc version from Kino International. However, the Richard Stauss soundtrack I added myself for KZread. The various editions are reviewed here: silentera.com/video/hardLuckHV.html

@dadautube

21 күн бұрын

@@GildaTabarez thank you for the clarifying reply ... will check the link ...

@GildaTabarez

20 күн бұрын

​@@dadautubeI'm sorry I sent you a link for the Buster Keaton dvd/Blu-ray by mistake! There is no Blu-ray for Nazimova's Salomé, but one may be in the works: www.blu-ray.com/movies/Salome-Blu-ray/354799/ The version shown here was restored by The Library of Congress and Lobster Films from a nitrate print preserved by Film Preservation Associates Inc. As you can see by comparison in the following review video, they cleaned up the print very nicely: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZGmt1M6aobnHYpM.htmlsi=6rSHGHFJ_5Fsu7b1

@dadautube

20 күн бұрын

@@GildaTabarez thanks for the kind reply ... yes, you sent the wrong link ... but i did search around and found the movie's full version on at least four different KZread channels ... some have different musics ... one was fully silent ... and one does have some interesting music that doesn't sound bad ... (see below please ...) only one of them happens to have a slightly better image quality than the rest ... i also found another not-too-bad copy on a Russian website, with a nice music on the footage, probably created originally for this movie but in later (more recent) times ... the problem with many of the ancient movies is that their original negatives are either totally lost, or worse, they are in an unusable condition ... (some producers either discarded everything to do with those movies that didn't sell well, or simply extracted the silver from them to sell the material in the market even if the movie did sell well in the first place but declined in attracting more viewers later ...) 😞 so, what's left of many of those great movies are some badly damaged often broken in parts positive copies attheir best ... it is possible however, to retrieve some usable images out of those bad copies ... but in the end, it never matches the original, unfortunately! and the lost footage are never to be found anyways ... ironically, Nazimova herself regretted acting and/or making ALL of her movies and wished she could burn "every inch" of them! could she have been the one responsible for the missing footage of some of his works? (she produced and co-directed Salome` for example ...)

They had no censhorip in the 20s and many actresses beared all never had bras and see through clothes

@GildaTabarez

Ай бұрын

It was mostly tasteful nudity and not that common. The Twenties may have been "roaring" -- yet Prohibition lasted from 1920 until 1933. The moral majority was a force to be reckoned with back then. "During the 1920s, pressure to censor the movies grew. In 1922 alone, 22 state legislatures considered bills to impose state and local censorship." -- www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/teachers/historyonline/film_censorship.cfm "Film censorship in the United States was a frequent feature of the industry almost from the beginning of the U.S. motion picture industry until the end of strong self-regulation in 1966." -- Wikipedia "The “Pre-Code” Era was a short time, roughly 1931 to 1934, when American movies were at their most raucous and racy, a time when illicit sex and violence were common themes." -- Marian Luntz

Thank you for this version with the Strauss music; I found the synthesizer soundtrack on another version rather annoying, it put me off watching.

@GildaTabarez

5 күн бұрын

@@art2liv4 Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it.

This is the movie Pee Wee was watching when arrested 😅

what stupid comments from people who haven't watched this

@JLajos

27 күн бұрын

Of course. This is the KZread comment section.

There's a great essay about the film by Catherine A. Surowiec on the San Francisco Silent Film Festival website: silentfilm.org/salome/

Nothing has changed

One hundred and two years old.

This is what Wagner meant when he called opera "total art", wiith a combination of drama, music and art, but this adds cinema, too, and I like it much better than anything Wagner ever did.

❤

Ten cesarz wygląda jak niespełna rozumu i tak się też zachowuje.

@GildaTabarez

Ай бұрын

The real Herod certainly was a madman since he was responsible for the Massacre of the Innocents.

@izabelacabanska3194

11 күн бұрын

​@@GildaTabarezHerod był także ,niezrównanym architektem.

@GildaTabarez

11 күн бұрын

​@@izabelacabanska3194 You mean Herod the Great, the father of Herod Antipas. Herod I may have been an architectural genius, but HE was the one who ordered the Slaughter of the Innocents (my mistake in my previous reply). He also was responsible for the deaths of a wife, a mother-in-law, two brothers-in-law and three sons. The historian, Josephus, characterised Herod I in these words: ‘He was of great barbarity toward all men equally’ and ‘slave to his passions’. Source: cornerstonechurchkingston.org/blog/herod-the-great-a-k-a-the-murderer/

Judith Anderson played the mother in - can’t remember the date ,but some years ago. And Judith Anderson was pure evil no one can play the part like her - Rest In Peace Judith

@GildaTabarez

20 күн бұрын

Yes, she was excellent as Herodias in Salome (1953).

Indeed, shawty got low.

Herod played well. One could see the lust he felt

I have had nightmares less bizarre than this

Kind of creepy, but that was possibly the reality. Herod OMG no words.

@GildaTabarez

12 күн бұрын

Like Rosalind Russell said in "Picnic" (1955): "My those ancient people were depraved."

The actual film is some 70 minutes long.

@GildaTabarez

18 күн бұрын

I have added "excerpts" in the title since not everyone reads the description. There are several complete versions on KZread with different music, even one that is colorized. Also, there are other videos with selected scenes only, like this one. If the total running time is at least 1 hour, 12 minutes, then it is complete.

@StevenTorrey

17 күн бұрын

@@GildaTabarez Thank you, I may have missed that.

Fact: Silent movies were much better then sound movies.....by far.....

ok ....all I can say is...wow THAT was bizarre. LOL

We were taught Salome's father told her to ask for John the Baptists head on a plate!

@GildaTabarez

16 күн бұрын

Do you mean her step dad or her bio dad? I have read that Salome was not executed. According to one article online, Jewish historian Flavius Josephus and Byzantine Greek historian Nicephorus Gregoras wrote that Salome was crossing over a frozen river, when the ice broke and she sank in up to her neck. In her struggle, she wiggled and jiggled her lower body underwater, movements similar to her seductive dance for Herod. Salome's head was eventually severed from her body by the sharp jagged edges of the ice. Thus she suffered decapitation, ironically the same fate she had decreed for John the Baptist, except more slowly and painfully. Source: discover.hubpages.com/religion-philosophy/Salome-suffered-the-same-death-she-decreed-on-John-the-Baptist