Salomé (1918 film)
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Salomé is a silent film produced by William Fox and starring actress Theda Bara. The film is now considered to be lost.
Henri Langlois, a French film preservationist, said he had the opportunity to buy this film but dismissed it as Fox, Theda Bara, and American spectacle. He subsequently realized his lost chance and regretted prejudging films as worthy of preserving, deciding instead to preserve whatever film he was able to.
A scene in the film The Cook, starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Buster Keaton, spoofs parts of this movie, with Arbuckle dressing in drag and doing his best "Cleopatra" impression.
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Cast
- Theda Bara - Salome
- G. Raymond Nye - King Herod
- Alan Roscoe - John the Baptist (as Albert Roscoe)
- Herbert Heyes - Sejanus (Heyes' final of five films with Bara)
- Bertram Grassby - Prince David
- Genevieve Blinn - Queen Marian
- Vera Doria - Naomi
- Al Fremont - Galla (as Alfred Fremont)
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