Salome

N.p. N.p., Circa 1953. Vintage reference photograph of Rita Hayworth and Stewart Granger, with director William Dieterle and crew, from the set of the 1953 film. Mimeo snipe on verso.

Columbia Pictures highly fictionalized and flamboyant Technicolor Biblical epic, now considered a camp classic, wherein Princess Salome (Hayworth), daughter of King Herod (a deliciously lecherous Charles Laughton), returns home from banishment and falls in love with Roman Commander Claudius (Granger) , but is maliciously used by her evil mother, Queen Herodias (Judith Anderson), to insure the execution of her critic, John the Baptist (Alan Badel).

Shot on location in Israel.

10.25 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, with creasing and two small closed tears to right margin.

[Book #150545]