 
1923 SALOME Lobby Card with Alla Nazimova, Madame Rose, Dione Mitchell, Lewis Earl 
 
Salomé is a 1923 silent film directed by Charles Bryant and starring Alla Nazimova. It is an adaptation of the 1891 Oscar Wilde play of the same name. 
The play itself is a loose retelling of the biblical story of King Herod and his execution of John the Baptist (here, as in Wilde's play, called Jokanaan) at the 
request of Herod's stepdaughter, Salomé, whom he lusts after. 
Salomé is often called one of the first art films to be made in the United States.
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 The highly stylized costumes, exaggerated acting, minimal sets, and 
absence of all but the most necessary props make for a screen image much more focused on atmosphere and on conveying a sense of the characters' 
individual heightened desires than on conventional plot development. 
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salom%C3%A9_(1923_film) 
Gay cast rumor 
There is a longstanding rumor, which seems to have started while the film was still in production and has been asserted by chronicler of Hollywood 
decadence Kenneth Anger, that the film's cast is composed entirely of gay or bisexual actors in an homage to Oscar Wilde, as per star and producer 
Nazimova's demand. 
   