Natacha Rambova (born Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy) was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on 19 January 1897 and died in Pasadena, California 5 June 5 1966.

🎥 About the Film: Salomé is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Charles Bryant and 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. 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.

🎙️ Before the film, Mildred Berryman Institute co-founder and chair Connell O’Donovan will speak about Natacha Rambova and the very queer creation of the film Salomé.

🎟️ Please reserve you free ticket through the Utah Film Center website.

🎬 From the Utah Film Center: This colorized 4k version of film is presented in honor of SLC Born sapphic, Natacha Rambova, and features a presentation about her and the legacy of the film by Connell O’Donovan and The Mildred Berryman Institute For LGBTIQ2S+ Utah History.

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