萨乐美

　　Salom%^$é [#(*+^ 1923),$ .# a s$il ^ent film: direc ^ted b*! y Charl^es Br)$yan!_%t # and starring$? Alla N;azimov_-/a, is a film ada^pt.)=ati*on of the Oscar Wi \lde .!play of #!the sam:=\e name. The; play ++?/it%;self is  a $loos
.e retelling of the #)biblical /].story  of :Ki ? #n-
g- H^erod and his ex-ecutio`n o*.%$f ,J!ohn the Ba[@p;tist (here, as in`^ $Wi]ld+e?9s play`, called Jokaanan) at =`(the request of his step=#daug)@/ht!=:er%*, S?alomé, wh!
)om he lusts /# afte $]`r.　]　Salomé is oft `en called one o_ f t (he #first\]) art f`:ilms #\to ? be made ,in %?;the U.S=.[citation needed] T^he highl$$=y stylized c
#$ os:tumes, exaggerat?, ed ac!=t?ing\ (even for*@ *th?`e p,(?erio=[d),^ mi*n+=imal se_ts, and absence of al@l! but _the ,most n!(-e*cessary props make fo$r a scre(en i;mage much more f(, ocuse(`;`d on $@atmosphere and on conveyin
g a sense of +t -?he\; characters' in$
dividua,_$l h+eig/\.hten.]ed =!+desi)@res% t?han on c+/\onventi:# onal p
lo`,t development.　　De\=:spite t;he fi !lm be%ing_! only a li\ttle over% an hou +r:` i n length and ha#v,:ing no real action to speak of, /#`it cos[t o% ^v er- %. $350,000 t% ^o make.[. A)/:ll the/% se+ ts w@ere constr +ucted indo$.ors to be able to+// ha$[\ve
com]^%pl! e( ^te co %ntro:l over the\ l^+i%! ghting. Th^%e film w//as +shot completely in blac #k and !*white@%, matching the illustrations` done_; by Aub]#rey B eard]*s
$/l : ey in the $_ printe`;?d editi@`o =n of Wild
.$e's play. The cost)*:[umes, desi_]+gn ^ ed by Na_*tacha Ra@)mb(
.ova,
[used material only fro-,!m Mai]+son Lewis of Paris, suc/\ h[\ as the real silv:=e/^-r lamé lo+]i(ncloths worn by the .[+guards.　　No @/*maj_\,(o]r stud)[i,o would be assoc=#iated )#with% +the+ f ,ilm, and it was)] ( years) after its co+/m
plet!/ion before%$ it $was re/$le; ,ased!, by+* a mino* r independe`nt distri[\butor. It was a comple=te failure at t/`he ti(* me() and marked the end \_of Nazimova&#%39s producing career/%*.　　A longstanding rumor, whi*?ch s#eems ;t!/o h%ave started wh+.ile th:[e film*.  was stil@l i,n pr?odu_ctio[=\n, su?ggest/-s that it -=s cast is comprised en_/tirely of gay an%](=d)`$. bise/*xual actor$.*s in an homage to Oscar [)Wilde, as per^` star and producer Nazimov_[a,&@#39s d
emand. It is, of @course, imp[$os)

sib(le @)]?to say, but one o!.f (=the =`ext]-ras,$+ in Salomé` rep(!(ort$ \e/?d that a numbe!! r +_/of the  cast members—both featured an\-d ex)tras—we_re indeed ga)%y, but ][$not a]$n unus,ual perce?
ntage of;% them, an]d c?ertainly not all o/)\f them.. What can ^%be said ;is th ^at Nazimova her *self./ was a lesbian, th=e two g!u/ar\ ,d cha+?_ra![*c te$rs (who! , ]$^ne !
xt to Salomé, hav?*e %the most  scr$een time) are at least played very stere:
`o:\typicall/@ y /\
gay, and s`eve!.[ra/-,l of the%); femal=%:e c:ourt+_=iers are men in drag.　　Sa*lomé =`!was scren?/ed in 1989 at t%*he New York Internati\=ona!]l Festival of L_esbian an/d=[! G-ay+ ; f)(#ilms and in 1990  a]t *;the New York G(a^)y Experimental Film F;estiva)(l.　　In \/[200$0, the. U .@ _ni[ted Stat#_[es 
Lib_%,rary of+ Congress deemed the% film &$_quotcul -/t`+\urally signi^:fi[@cant" and se:lected it for pre;+servation in.? t=he National Film , Reg#,istry.