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Salomé (^( )1923)./, a sile# nt f `ilm = directed by Char/@le.#s Bryant an^%d ( @st)#arri\( ng;^_ Al la Na $zimova, is a film,( \adapt^@ation of the Oscar Wilde @]%pl[ay of the ,@same name. The play its^e !-lf is a loose retelling of %the biblical story / [of //Ki%+n%g Herod and his exec/u.\ ti /.on of$_ John the Baptist _ (h) ]ere, as i _n. Wilde's play, ]_[$call]__\e-#(d Jokaan)!%a;$: n) at th e\) !^;request _ of# his $stepdau/;ghte(^r, Sal] omé:^, whom h:e lust/]s af#+ ^ter. Salomé] _ is \often c !alle=/ d on\?e of t$he :` first art f#_*ilms-_[ t,%#o$ be made= in the U.S.[citation nee.ded] The h]:\ighly stylized costumes, exagge__,ra ;:t)e;d [acti=ng (eve+@**n for the period), mi^_nimal $sets, and^. a@[_]bsence of \;`al`!+_l but the most ` nece[ss,ar%.y prop ;_s make for a-[ sc `^reen i(.!mag$%e:] -much mo)]re focu:sed on at@/m$os (p here #and on co?\ nv:),eying a sense of th-\ e characters' i%;]ndividu,al (:h eightened d=esires than on conventional pl)ot d=#ev^;+ elopment. Despite the film !#b-$eing on]:@ly _ \a lit tle ove/r an hour in length! a % n: d havi@*ng no real ac tion to]\ speak of, i^ t `cost@%( over $350,0:^00 to mak e+`.. A/?ll ! th-\e ( se@!)]ts were c: /onstructed i@; @ndoors to be.* ? able to @have comp(%$lete (.( control@:) o ver ?the l(! ight=!/)in *) g. The film was sh ot co_!mpletely in black.^ an?/=#d white, matching$ the ill^!ust-=ra#\ t$%ions done%( b:/y Aubr ey Beard/s*$ley in (th)!: e printe^ d edition:@ of Wilde's play. The costu mes, designed by Natac;ha Ra=mbova, used materi%)_al only f: #ro(m Maiso!n L?\ewis of Paris, + such[ as the*@\ real ,silver lamé l:#$-o]?[in$% cl#,%oths worn by the gu:ards.) No major _, studio would;= be associ (ated wit^h %^the film, and it ;_was years after its _co :)mpletion before i$(t was relea+[ ?sed )*,: by a: minor in*\@.de(+p/endent dis=:trib!utor. It/ , was a complete@ fai=$ lur:e at the ti%-m_e an@d marked the \end .of N[azimova's pro\duc )=ing car![ee,/r. A lon !gstandi]ng rumor, whi] ;ch #.seems to ha,]ve s!tarted. w)+\ hile the film =was (.still in p/`]roduc/tion, sug:ge .:sts that i@)\+)t!s cast is c== ompris+!ed +[enti$,rely o+f gay [_a^^*nd bisexual/!;^! ]]actors i$n an homa ge to Oscar Wi# ,[;l +de, as per star and% % produ:@cer Nazimova'+s demand:. It is, of course/, i mpossible to say, but one] o(f the extras in Salomé#_ reported% that a numb=er of the cast members( —b[?oth feat]`_ur ed ^and extra s+—wer+)/e indee[$d ga# _y, b ..ut not an unu!su_al+:, percentag) e of them*, and cer ;,;tainl-y not all \of the_(`m. \[^ Wha[)*t can( be said is that Nazi_mo va he /r* s%@%elf was ,a lesbi(an, the` two guard. - cha?r? act:*e rs (who, next t (`o Salom é, have the most= sc (reen time) @\ are at leas[ t p?*layed very s.!/te= re otypic=_al^l! y @gay, and$/?[ % ^sev- $eral ( of the female courtiers:=[ a re men( in dr:ag; . Salom!(é was screened#@\ in $-*1\989 at; t he New Y*_ork% In^ternat$ ional@ Festival of Lesb,ia @++n and Gay films and ?[-in 1990 [%at the New York* Gay Exp\*,e(+`ri([mental Film Festival. In 2000, the United States \Libra ^ry]$( o#:f Congress\ deemed the fi-)^ ?lm cul_(+!turally signif$icant ;] and selected it) for-+% [ p ._r)*^; eservation in the %Nat+,ional Film Re@:=g.istry.