Salome Movie: Seductive Silent Film Vamps and Goddesses
As the motion picture industry took off, Salomania stormed the silver screen—Salome movies shocked, scandalized, and mesmerized people around the globe. It is hard to overstate how influential the Salome story was in silent film. The British Film Institute lists 21 films with “Salome” in the title made before 1930, but this is a serious…