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Nazimova put her own money into this Wilde Salomé and lost it. Charles Bryant directed; Natacha Rambova built a Beardsley court of white wigs, painted floors, and a prophet in a cistern. Nazimova's Salomé wants Jokaanan's mouth; Herod wants her dance; the Baptist wants nothing from the palace. It failed in 1923 and was adopted decades later as a queer touchstone. An American art film before Hollywood had a name for that.
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Women Pioneers of Silent Cinema
Alla Nazimova financed this Wilde picture through Nazimova Productions and lost the money; Charles Bryant directed, but the company, the casting, and the look were hers. Natacha Rambova designed the Beardsley court of white wigs, painted floors, and a prophet in a cistern. It played as a flop in 1923 and found its later life as an art-film curiosity. The pioneer fact is the woman-run production: an American picture a woman paid for and controlled, before the industry had a useful word for either the financing or the design. Her name financed the negative.
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