Salome's Wicked Dance of the Seven Veils

Rita Hayworth does The Dance of the Seven Veils: From the movie "Salome" 1953. Hayworth's dance for this film was choreographed by Valerie Bettis.

[valerieking]

OMG, her outfit is beautiful with all of the different colors of the veils!!! Simply stunning!!!

[mj]

I treasure this video as a demonstration for how far entertainment has come over thousands of years, from sheer veils of many colors to CGI phantasmagoria.

[DilshadKhan-wzbu]

WOW such a beautiful Rita Hayworth dance❤

[paulmartin]

Watching the fabulous film noir " Sunset Boulevard ", Gloria Swanson describes this dance. William Holden, great actors..
I'm going to watch this...it looks glorious..

[creativecolours]

They must have filmed this dance a trillion times in order to show Rita Heyworth taking flawlessly off those super complicated to wear veils. Particularly those that were around her neck. It must have been very difficult to take them off without tangle them in her hair and/or the one with the other.

[rolandlastname]

I have heard of Rita Hayworth, so its fun to actually see her

[LisaTrippas]

Rita Hayworth was beautiful & could. Command such a performance

[TheDejael]

My friend actor Rex Reason co-starred in this movie in one scene as Salome's Roman Legionnaire lover Marcellus. Filmed in beautiful 3-strip Technicolor.

[AllenJones-wp]

I do believe that it's the legendary Charles Laughton playing Herod.

[bluesight_]

was not expecting some skyrim soundtrack there

[mashenkahazel]

This music make more amazing the dance of Rita❤️‍🩹🌷

[keithhanley]

Why oh why would Rita Hayworth have dyed her beautiful red hair blonde when Salome has almost always been depicted as a redhead???

[sgtjarhead]

I still think this is the hottest "Dance of the seven veils" ever filmed.

[fertusherring]

I don't believe that this is the actual music in the film version for this dance number. The dancing is spectacular, nonetheless.

[mediocremaiden]

Duuuude thats your stepdaughter just remember buddy. *Your Queen and Wife's Daughter not one of your concubines from the Harem* and Princess Salome was not wicked. After being told she may ask for whatever she wishes "Up to 1/3, of my Kingdom" it was Herodias, who took great offense at John The Baptist saying their marriage was an abomination because Herodias married her dead husband's brother, Herod Antipas and Herodias told her to ask for "John The Baptist's Head on a Silver Platter" Herod didnt even want to but felt he had to keep his word in front of his Honored Guests. If this indeed happened at all. Is there any other literary source for this interaction besides the King James Bible?

[robertomainetti]

From minute 4.15 on, She really gives her best

[Horichdaslicht]

Maria Ewing in Strauss's opera at Covent garden was the best ever. She did it properly!

[lugenehaynes]

This is NOT the music that was in this film, at least for this scene. Don’t they have the rights to it?

[EhlaA-sz]

It's okay. I mean, Rita was a beautiful lady. Still, she's not a convincing Salome. Her features and her bone structure were strong. Salome was Jewish, so it's difficult to picture her blonde or even red head. It's very likely that Salome's dance was inspired by Egyptian movements, suggestive, and erotic. Rita did a terrific job. But her dance is more euphoric than tempting. Still a good job.

[Maergensargoth]

so that's basically ancient striptease