Seven Veils is named ... Richard Strauss adapted it as an opera. According to lore, Salome is step-daughter to King Herod Antipas, who asks her to dance at a dinner and is so riveted by her ...

This color film reprises the female impersonator Adrian's nightclub act of the same name: "'Salome and the Dance of the Seven Veils' introduced the Club 82's new season to New Yorkers, in 1958.

Russell’s composer biopics were usually labours of love. This was the opposite: he regarded Strauss’s music as 'bombastic, sham and hollow', and despised the composer for claiming to be ...