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Salome (1918)
Having tackled Carmen, Cleopatra, and Madame Du Barry, the screen's foremost vamp, Theda Bara, was of course destined to play Salome as well. Her performance came complete with a shoulder length black wig and a silly-looking paper mache head of John the Baptist (portrayed, until his unfortunate decapitation, by Albert Roscoe). Bara played the character like she had any of her earlier so popular vixens but the studio, Fox, had no real confidence in their waning star's drawing power and released the film without much fanfare in the middle of summer.
Updated Mar 9 2015
Cast
Theda Bara
Salome
Alan Roscoe
John the Baptist
G. Raymond Nye
King Herod
Bertram Grassby
Prince David
Genevieve Blinn
Queen Marian
Vera Doria
Naomi
Al Fremont
Galla
Crew
George James Hopkins
Production Design
William Fox
Producer
George Schneiderman
Director of Photography
J. Gordon Edwards
Director
Harry W. Gerstad (senior)
Director of Photography
John W. Boyle
Director of Photography
Adrian Johnson
Writer
