{"id":11728,"date":"2012-07-13T03:16:13","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T02:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=11728"},"modified":"2012-07-13T03:21:08","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T02:21:08","slug":"william-mortensens-salomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/07\/13\/william-mortensens-salomes\/","title":{"rendered":"William Mortensen&#8217;s Salom\u00e9s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lapetitemelancolie.wordpress.com\/category\/photographes\/william-mortensen\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/mortensen1.jpg\" alt=\"mortensen1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Joyzelle Joyner as Salom\u00e9.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Two undated photographs by William Mortensen (1897\u20131965) which use the Salom\u00e9 theme as a possible disguise for motives that have little to do with Biblical storytelling; looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/lapetitemelancolie.wordpress.com\/category\/photographes\/william-mortensen\/\" target=\"_blank\">this collection<\/a> of Mortensen&#8217;s work he evidently had a thing for arty erotica. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0431655\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joyzelle Joyner<\/a> was an American actress who appeared in minor roles in a number of silent films. Her lascivious scene in Cecil B. DeMille&#8217;s <em>The Sign of the Cross<\/em> (1932) was deemed scandalous enough to later be cut from the film by censors. Watch it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wiDvUPuqbHw\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. (Tip via <a href=\"http:\/\/beautifulcentury.tumblr.com\/post\/27072113837\/thetranscendentalmodernist-joyzelle-joyner-as\" target=\"_blank\">Beautiful Century<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lapetitemelancolie.wordpress.com\/category\/photographes\/william-mortensen\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/mortensen2.jpg\" alt=\"mortensen2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-salome-archive\/\">The Salom\u00e9 archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joyzelle Joyner as Salom\u00e9. Two undated photographs by William Mortensen (1897\u20131965) which use the Salom\u00e9 theme as a possible disguise for motives that have little to do with Biblical storytelling; looking at this collection of Mortensen&#8217;s work he evidently had a thing for arty erotica. Joyzelle Joyner was an American actress who appeared in minor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/07\/13\/william-mortensens-salomes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;William Mortensen&#8217;s Salom\u00e9s&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[3862,3861,123,3860],"class_list":["post-11728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-photography","tag-cecil-b-demille","tag-joyzelle-joyner","tag-salome","tag-william-mortensen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-33a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}