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MARY MAGDALENE
Carmen Sevilla’s naturally sensuous beauty depicts the Magdalene as everything a Magdalene should be. From harlot to repentant, from opulently spangled earrings, beaded hips and transparent linen to rough homespun, her minimal part yields maximum impact. Mme. Monic, an haute couturier e of Madrid, who designed the ornate costumes of the female principals, did justice to the sensuousness of her native countrywomen in the one costume for Mary the Harlot, and properly lets Miss Sevilla display her natural earthiness in the simple black stola of the repentant.
HEROD1 AS
In “King of Kings” the incestuous wife of Herod Antipas is everything the Bible and Josephus chose to call her. Furtive ! Exotic ! Debauched ! Excessive! Sadistic! Carnal! Lavish! Her costumes are a combination of the excessiveness of every depraved capital of the ancient world... jeweled collars from Egyptian Alexandria, robes from Parthia and jeweled earrings and girdles from Gades. Rita Gam somehow seems to display the quixotic and jealous nature of a woman who spawned one of the Bible’s most tempting daughters of Eve.
SALOME
Sixteen-year-old Brigid Bazlen’s brief appearance on the screen is as dazzling as the costumes in which she appears. I expected the absolute worst from a performer so young who seemed to be chosen for her beautiful new face alone. Her beauty is there, but that is not all. If anyone deserves acting acclaim it is Brigid. Garbed in a filmy gauze skirt, a halter and girdle of topaz, jasper and ruby, she offsets the visual temptation of her jeweled hips and naked stomach with the acid tongue of a child spoiled to the point of sadism. This was Salome. This was the court of Herod. While the dance costumes don’t have the historic nudity of the Ritual Cordax, Brigid’s attitude on screen is sensuous and snooty enough to make you believe it and hate it.
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