The captivating Milly Vitale in a dance sequence from the 1960 sword and sandal epic Revak the Rebel, also known as The Barbarians. Born Camila Vitale, the actress was the daughter of a famous choreographer, Natasha Shidlowski, while her father, Riccardo Vitale, was a conductor. Vitale enjoyed a long career in Italy, and appeared in occasional Hollywood movies, including War and Peace and The Seven Little Foys.
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Gina Lollobrigida as Queen Sheba tries to tempt Yul Brynner in the 1959 Biblical epic Solomon & Sheba, but a fiery God signals his disapproval of the accompanying pagan rituals and statues. Tyrone Power originally played Solomon, but died of a heart attack after three-fourths of the picture had been shot, forcing United Artists to hastily elevate Brynner to the lead role. Lollobrigida, who was 42 at the time of this production, once famously quipped, “A woman at 20 is like ice, at 30 she is warm and at 40 she is hot.”
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Tandra Quinn as Tarantella in Mesa of Lost Women. If she seems to exhibit arachnoid tendencies, that’s no coincidence. The low-budget 1953 film follows a mad scientist named Arana who is plotting to create a master race of superwomen by injecting his female subjects with spider venom.
Quinn appeared in three other 1953 pictures, including Problem Girls and The Neanderthal Man, but abandoned her acting career the following year after marrying a Beverly Hills real estate developer, Herbert Smithson. In 1944, she had auditioned for the part in National Velvet that Elizabeth Taylor snagged.
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Besides arousing the fancy of Mr. Smithson, can anyone doubt that Tandra also elicited positive responses from Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino?
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Maria Montez as Scheherazade mesmerizes Jon Hall’s Haroun-Al-Baschid in Arabian Nights, 1942. Owing to her exotic looks and accent, Universal Pictures cast her in a series of escapist adventures that traversed the world, often with such sidekicks as Sabu and Turhan Bey. In real-life, she was the daughter of a Spanish diplomat, born in the Dominican Republic as Maria de Santo Silas. But in Hollywood, she came to be dubbed “The Queen of Technicolor.”
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The Diane Nellis Dancers appear in She Demons, a cheesy 1958 exploitation film in which a mad Nazi scientist is using scantily clad dance girls as guinea pigs for his lab experiments on a remote jungle island. The girls have stunning bodies, but they will begin to sprout fangs and hideous faces as they are subjected to the devices of the cruel Nazi doctor. The film was directed by Richard Earl Cunha, a former US Army Air Corps newsreel photographer and perhaps the only man in Hollywood capable of making Ed Wood look like an artistic genius by comparison.
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Egypt’s Queen Cleopatra (Linda Cristal), in disguise, enters a tavern and dances for the peasants in the 1959 Italian epic Legions of the Nile. The Argentine-born actress has starred in films across Europe, the United States and Mexico, as well as a long-running Argentine soap opera. Stateside, she is best known for her appearances in Westerns, including the movies The Alamo and Two Rode Together and the TV shows Bonanza, Rawhide and High Chaparral.
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Young, troubled femme fatale Nicole Eggert tries to enlist Corey Heim in a plot to kill her father in the 1993 thriller Blown Apart. Here, she gets Heim’s juices flowing and his jealousy aroused with a seductive bar dance.
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French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard cast his then wife, actress Anna Karina, in Vivre Sa Vie (My Life to Live) — the 1962 drama of a Parisian woman, Nana, and her descent into prostitution. The picture is divided into 12 vignettes that capture Nana’s daily routines: Her boredom with her customers, her double-edged relationship with her pimp, how she spends her free time. But one jukebox dance scene gives a hint of what might have been if Nana had taken a different path in life and shows a glimpse of the young, carefree girl still dwelling inside her.
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She didn’t have a reputation whatsoever as a dancer, but before appearing on the TV sitcom Full House, Lori Loughlin burned some serious rubber turning wheelies atop a BMX bike at a school dance in the movie RAD. Jump in the Wayback Machine and you might remember the hallmarks of the 1980s — disco, big hair, fad dances and extreme sports. RAD, from 1986, combined all of those trends in the tale of a young daredevil Cru (played by Bill Allen) trying to beat the pros in a BMX race called the Helltrack. Here, Cru and his girlfriend Christian (Loughlin) show off their righteous moves to the Real Life tune “Send Me An Angel.”
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At the risk of offending his legions of fans, Elvis Presley was a mediocre actor. But his gyrating as The Pelvis drove the chicks crazy, and he could sing to beat the band — both talents that carried him to a long career in Hollywood, where he starred in 31 films. One of the best, at least one of the most fun, colorful and breezy, was 1964’s Viva Las Vegas pairing him with the hot Ann-Margret, who also knew how to shake a tail feather. Here, she shimmies and he sings “C’mon Everybody.” Maybe it’s a simple formula for success, but it works.
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