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11 Nov 2012

Go! Girl! Go! — Once

The 1957 film El Bolero de Raquel stars the comedian Cantinflas — Mexico’s Chaplin. The title is a sly reference to Ravel’s Bolero. Here, the sultry Elaine Bruce, playing Raquel, dances to that piece of music in a nightclub act, only to have Cantinflas wander onto the stage and sabotage her performance. He has the hots for her, but she plays hard to get. He’s kind-hearted and takes care of an orphan, but he’s also a roustabout who can’t hold down any job for long.

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10 Nov 2012

Go! Girl! Go! — Diez

Cyd Charisse dances to “Frankie and Johnny,” sung by Sammy Davis Jr., in Meet Me in Las Vegas. Charisse’s legs were reportedly insured for $1 million apiece by MGM, although that was most likely a stunt cooked up by the publicity department. She not only is considered the greatest female Hollywood dancer of all time, but she also holds the distinction of being the only one to partner with both Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. She dances with John Brascia in this scene, playing the ill-fated cheater destined for a fiery fate.

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Charisse died in 2008, but her influence lingers. Here, Australian burlesque dancer Miss Skopalova pays homage to Charisse with a performance inspired by the “Frankie and Johnny” routine.

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09 Nov 2012

Go! Girl! Go! — Neuve

Chelo Alonso as the Persian Queen Smedes attempts to seduce the hero Maciste, played by Mark Forest, in the 1960 Son of Samson. While it’s hard to say how a Persian queen has mastered belly dancing, perhaps she picked it up in Egypt. The Persians have invaded and subjugated the Egyptians. Queen Smedes rules over the territory and has been rounding up women to sell as slaves, incurring the wrath of Maciste — a strongman character who has appeared in some 50 movies as a sort of all-purpose copycat of Hercules.

Born Isabella Garcia in Cuba, Chelo Alonso often played an evil queen or temptress in the sword and sandal movies popular in the 1950s and 1960s. A star dancer of Cuba’s National Theatre, known for her sensual, exotic style, she joined the Folies Bergere in Paris in 1957, where she was billed as “The Cuban H-Bomb.” Often starring opposite Forest and fellow bodybuilder Steve Reeves, her films included The Pirate and the Slave Girl, Sheba and the Gladiator, and Goliath and the Barbarians.

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08 Nov 2012

Go! Girl! Go! — Ocho

A cruel Roman caesar (Claude Laydu) inflicts his sadistic whims on a dancer in Attila, a 1954 Italian-made film. The ravishing beauty descending the staircase midway through this scene is none other than a young Sophia Loren, then a fresh 20-year-old. Anthony Quinn also stars in the picture as the Hun invader Attila, dubbed by the Romans “The Scourge of God.” This clip, and many others in our Go!Girl!Go! series, comes courtesy of the Sappho Peplum YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/SapphoPEPLUM

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07 Nov 2012

Go! Girl! Go! — Siete

Salma Hayek as Santanico Pandemonium does a steamy snake dance in the Titty Twister bar in Robert Rodriguez’s From Dusk Till Dawn (1996). Tito and Tarantula perform the accompanying song “After Dark.”

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05 Nov 2012

Go! Girl! Go! — Cinco

Playing the prostitute Heera, Rani Mukerji leads a spirited village dance in the 2005 Bollywood epic The Rising. It’s based on a true-life historical incident — the Indian Uprising of 1857, in which Hindu and Muslim soldiers turned against the colony’s British rulers. The catalyst for the mutiny: The British introduced new rifles that used bullets greased with animal fat, the cattle lard offending the Hindus, the pig fat getting the Muslims riled up. The great Indian actor Aamir Khan plays the leader of the rebellion, Mangal Pandey, Heera’s lover. There are also flashes here of a different pair of lovers — a British officer sympathetic to the rebellion and the Indian widow he deeply desires.

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04 Nov 2012

Go! Girl! Go! — Quatro

Liana Orfei struts her stuff in Nefertiti: Queen of the Nile. This 1961 costume epic was shot in Italy, but boasted many American cast members, including Jeanne Crain as Nefertiti and Vincent Price as her father, the villainous priest Bekanon, anxious to thwart her romance with a sculptor. The Italian-born Orfei provides authentic color as a harlot, getting an Egyptian soldier all hot and bothered to distract his attention from his sentry duties. Please return tomorrow for another Go! Girl! Go!

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03 Nov 2012

Go! Girl! Go! — Tres

Jennifer Grey and Ptrick Swayze in the wild humping scene deleted from 1987’s Dirty Dancing because it was deemed just a tad too dirty for a PG-13 rated film. Visit again tomorrow for another Go! Girl! Go!

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02 Nov 2012

Go! Girl! Go! — Dos

Julie Newmar appears as a dancing assassin in 1953’s Slaves of Babylon. Billed under her real surname, Julie Newmeyer, she flashed the same sensuous moves that earned her dancing roles in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Lil Abner. Later, she made the transition from the screen to television, winning new fans with her purr-fect turn as Catwoman on the boffo 1960s hit show Batman. Join us tomorrow for another Girl Going Wild.

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01 Nov 2012

Go! Girl! Go! — Uno

We trust you enjoyed our three-month series, The World of Beers, featuring hot, funny, bizarre beer commercials from all around the globe. Having pretty much exhausted that topic — by presenting more than 75 of the best commercials out there — we’re now ready to move on.

Our new series, Go! Girl! Go!, will run through the balance of 2012. Every afternoon, we’ll highlight a different dance scene from movies made around the world — from Hollywood to Bollywood, from Tokyo to Rome. A few of these terpsichorean displays will be funny, and a few others bizarre, but the vast majority involve more basic elements, namely, the world’s most beautiful, scantily clad babes showing off their sultry, seductive moves in exotic settings. If that’s not your cup of tea, you’ve got the wrong blog!

We kick things off with Debra Paget doing a snake dance in The Tomb of Love. An American actress best known for appearing in The Ten Commandments and opposite Elvis Presley in Love Me Tender, Paget shows a more uninhibited side as the temple dancer Seetha in this 1959 drama. Shot on location in India and Germany, it’s one of the last films by the great director Fritz Lang, who catapulted to fame with Metropolis in the 1920s. The dialogue is in German, but fortunately, there’s not much talking to distract from Paget’s performance. She could put a cobra in a trance, and does!

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