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11 Dec 2012

Go! Girl! Go! — Cuarenta y Uno

Never as overt as Jane Russell or Marilyn Monroe, Kim Novak nevertheless was one of the dreamiest sex goddesses of the 1950s. Her allure bubbled to the surface in Picnic, as Novak and William Holden shared one of the most sensuous dances ever captured on the screen, a veritable mating ritual to the music of George Duning and Morris Stoloff’s “It Must Have Been Moonglow.” Three years later, her status as a goddess would become sanctified by her appearance as the object of James Stewart’s obsessions in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo.

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10 Dec 2012

Go! Girl! Go! — Cuarenta

Astronauts from Earth land on the 13th moon of Jupiter and discover it inhabited by a bevy of nubile, men-hungry, young women in Fire Maidens of Outer Space. The women, it turns out, are transplants from the lost continent of Atlantis! This 1956 entry from Great Britain was but one of many B-grade sci-fi movies that conjured up Amazonian colonies existing beyond the Stratosphere. Other examples of this sub-genre: Cat-Women of the Moon, Queen of Outer Space and Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women.

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09 Dec 2012

Go! Girl! Go! — Treinta y Nueve

She’s sweet and also saucy. Kajol epitomizes both in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, a 1995 Bollywood romance of star-crossed lovers that ran for more than 10 years in one Mumbai cinema, breaking all previous records. The title loosely translates as The Braveheart Will Get the Bride. Here, we see Kajol innocently dancing with her mother, while also feigning a striptease wearing a towel and singing “Mere Khwabon Mein” in the rain as the water soaks her white clothes.

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Her detractors have complained she has “thunder thighs,” but they’re all wet. Watch as the rain again caresses Kajol in Hameshaa, one of her followups to Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge.

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08 Dec 2012

Go! Girl! Go! — Treinta y Ocho

Lena Horne delivers a jazzy song and dance rendition of “The Lady Is a Tramp” in 1948’s Words and Music, MGM’s fictionalized account of the songwriting duo, Rodgers and Hart.

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07 Dec 2012

Go! Girl! Go!–Treinta y Siete

Sonia Braga in the 1978 Brazilian TV novela Dancin’ Days. This was Disco at its peak, after Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, but before Hollywood discovered her, casting Braga in Kiss of the Spider Woman or The Milagro Beanfield War.

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06 Dec 2012

Go! Girl! Go! — Treinta y Seis

Nude nymphs followed by dancing girls, led by ballerina Colleen Bennet, regale Steve Reeves in Hercules Unchained. The 1959 box office hit was his first of many appearances as the mythical strongman. Hercules’ bride Iole was played by Sylva Koscina, the ravishing Yugoslav-born beauty who posed for Playboy in 1975, when she was 42.

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05 Dec 2012

Go! Girl! Go! — Treinta y Cinco

A masked Yvonne De Carlo appears in 1958’s The Sword and the Cross, an Italian-made peplum that paved the way for more Biblical adaptations by featuring several characters from the Bible — Mary Magdalene (De Carlo), as well as Pontius Pilate and Lazarus. The Canadian-born De Carlo (real name: Margaret Yvonne Middleton) appeared in more than 100 films, and played Lily Munster for three seasons on the TV comedy The Munsters. This is but one of many clips and full movies you’ll find on the SapphoPeplum channel on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/SapphoPEPLUM?feature=watch

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04 Dec 2012

Go! Girl! Go! — Treinta y Cuatro

Joan Crawford in the racy MGM movie Dance, Fools, Dance, made in 1931, ahead of the Production Code being enacted. Although she had previously admonished colleagues not to have affairs with their leading men until they appeared in three films together, Crawford violated her own rule by hooking up with her Dance, Fools, Dance co-star Clark Gable, even though this was only their second movie. Afterward, she acknowledged she had to eat her own words, but said they tasted sweet.

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03 Dec 2012

Go! Girl! Go!–Treinta y Tres

Dance, drink and free-flowing, lustful poetry draw out the spirits of the Green Snake (Maggie Cheung) and the White Snake (Joey Wang) in the 1993 Hong Kong period fantasy Green Snake. Tsui Hark directed, adapting a classic Chinese folk tale about two snake sisters.

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02 Dec 2012

Go! Girl! Go! — Treinta y Dos

Brigid Bazlen as Salome gets King Herod’s juices flowing in the 1961 Biblical epic King of Kings, demanding in return that Herod deliver as a reward the head of John the Baptist on a silver platter. Seventeen at the time this picture was made, Bazlen signed an exclusive contract with MGM, but appeared in only two other movies for the studio — The Honeymoon Machine and How the West Was Won.

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By way of comparison, here’s Rita Hayworth as Salome performing the Dance of the Seven Veils for Charles Laughton’s King Herod in the 1953 version of Salome.

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