Dancer". Her version was praised for the "eastern spirit" of her dancing without the "vulgarities familiar to the tourists in Cairo or Tangier". The dance first appeared in film in 1908 in a Vitagraph production entitled Salome, or the Dance of the Seven Veils. In the 1953 film Salome, Rita Hayworth performs the dance as a strip dance. She stops the dance before removing her last veil when she sees John's head being delivered on a platter, as she did not want him to be killed in this version of the story. In the 1961 film King of Kings, Salomé, portrayed by Brigid Bazlen, performs a similar dance; her voluptuous seduction of a drunken lascivious Herod Antipas remains highly praised and is now widely regarded as Bazlen's best performance. Salome and the dance are recurring thematic and plot elements in Tom Robbins's 1990 novel Skinny Legs and All. References External links Salome dance of the 7 veils (Rita Hayworth as Salome in a scene from the movie Salome); YouTube Erotic dance John the Baptist Works based on the Bible Oscar Wilde Gospel of Matthew Inanna Cultural depictions of Salome