Salome, Where She Danced (1945) on Netflix
Approved19451h 30mAdventureDramaMusic
War correspondent Jim Steed persuades the dancer Anna Marie to spy on Count von Bohlen, a Prussian officer. Fleeing Vienna, she reaches a lawless Arizona town, where she dances as Salome.
- Watch on NetflixThis title is not on Netflix right now. Please check back later for updates.
- Watch on Prime
- Watch on NordVPN
- Netflix2.7/5
- IMDb5.4/10427 votes
- Rotten TomatoesNot available
Plot summary
In Virginia in 1865, with the fighting over after General Lee's surrender, the war correspondent Jim Steed trades remarks with Count von Bohlen, an arrogant Prussian officer serving there as a military attaché. A year later Steed is in Vienna, where war between Austria and Prussia is close. He meets Anna Marie, a celebrated dancer, and talks her into spying on von Bohlen, who has risen to the Prussian general staff and is infatuated with her. The two of them pass secret plans to the Austrians. When the Prussian army takes the city, Steed and Anna Marie leave Vienna for the United States, where they intend to build a stage career for her.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Salome, Where She Danced (1945)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- According to one source, 21 Royal Canadian Air Force bombardier students who loved Yvonne De Carlo as a pinup campaigned to get her the part. De Carlo said it was at her own behest: she took revealing photos of herself and had two childhood friends from Vancouver, by then pilots, lobby their friends for her.
- The film was loosely based on an Arizona legend about a town called "Drinkmens Wells", which came to be known as "Salome, Where She Danced". In the story a Mexican dance-hall performer named Salome danced to hold the attention of a group of outlaws while the town's law-abiding residents armed themselves.
- Ava Gardner failed to show for a wardrobe test, and MGM would not let her go. Art director Alexander Golitzen, finding Yvonne De Carlo waiting with her agent, asked "Why don't we test her", then grabbed her and raced her to the wardrobe department.
