# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R Sa Si T U V W X Y Z

Movie Title	Dancer	Description
Fairytales	Nai Bonet	featuring Nai Bonet belly stripping and rubbing herself down with oil
Flame of Araby		Maureen O'Harra, Jeff Chandler.   Hollywood Arabian Nights Costume Extravaganza, beautiful costumes, lush sets. One really bad dance scene - Aziza Sa'id
Five Easy Pieces
Flamingo Road		Joan Crawford
Flash Gordon - Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe	Carmen D'Antonio	(1940) Carmen is listed in the credits as Ming's Dancing Girl
Flight of the Phoenix, The		Saw a brief dance scene in "The Flight of the Phoenix", a movie about an airplane crash in North Africa. One of the survivors of the crash, a British soldier, hallucinating from thirst, sees a vision of a dancer he had seen sometime before the ill-fated airplane trip. The movie was made in 1966, the dancer was showing a lot of leg for the times. She appeared to be a real dancer, not just an actress in costume. I'd have liked to see more of her and less of the scruffy survivors, but then it would be a different movie---Joyce I came across a real find at a local antique market..the still from "The Flight of the Phoenix", in mint condiion. The scene is the desert with Peter Finch stretched out on the sand, gazing at a dancing dancer. As you mentioned, she is showing a lot of leg. Her costume is a turquoise colour...no beads or coins...just a gauze like "skirt" and bra and the same fabric as a turban on her head. She does have the most beautiful bracelets on each arm. (Anyone who knows me knows I'm bonkers for the bangle) There are acting credits...there is one for a "Barrie Chase as Farida". Could this be her? Oh...I got the still for 2 bucks. --Shelby
Follow that Camel	Anita Harris	(British, 1967) starring Phil Silvers; also starring Anita Harris as Corktip,and featuring her belly dancing!!! A sequel to the "Carry on" series of videos. A toothy sheik, played by Phil Harris of "Sergeant Bilko" fame, and Anita Harris as "Corktip" a crackpot bellydancer. Complete with oases, harem girls, and burning sand. Anita Harris does a pretty decent dance. Although a trained dancer, in this film, she does it in a comedic way. I nearly fell of the chair when she danced. Really cute! Might that have been Phil Silvers? I'm looking out for that vid.
Foolish Wives		In Erich Von Stroheim's 1921 silent masterpiece, there is a wild orgy scene, replete with "Odalisques" and "Eunuchs". - Paul B
Franza		Austrian movie (script written by Ingeborg Bachman) playing in Egypt - also a wedding with a dancer -- Stephanie
Fringe of the City, The (?)	Lucy	"Lucy [Egyptian ME dance star] appeared in the film of 1994 (?) called something like *the fringe of the city*... set in Cairo it basically follows the lives of a family living in the slum district of Cairo. Lucy plays a part of a 16 year old girl who lives to dance because it is the only way she can express herself in a place of such hopelessness. She danced a beautiful number , with jazz ballet influences. (In the story very shortly afterwards the man who plays the daff for her, who is infatuated with her, falls over a cliff in a drunken ecstasy.... intersting film :-) )" --Jenny L.
From Dusk Til Dawn	Salma Hayek Neena and Veena	It features the incomparable Salma Hayek dancing with a snake. The movie itself is gory, bloody trash, but seeing her dance is well worth sitting through it. First, I agree with you that Salma Hayek could be (if she chose to devote time and effort away from the screen) a GREAT Dancer...either Middle Eastern Belly OR Brazilian Rio Samba [what do you think, Hozuhni?]. Never being a movie buff (like yourself, Paul)...I went to the same movie theatre to watch her short dance performance as "Satanico Pandemonium" in three times in the same week (a record for me)!
From Russia With Love	Leila (Lisa Guiraut) Julie Mendez (during credits) Martine Beswick (gypsy)	(1963) The best 007 picture, this one also features the incomparable Leila as a gypsy dancer. James Bond Movie, Sean Connery vintage. "Caught bits & pieces of "From Russia with Love", BOND, James Bond. Does anybody know who the bellydancer is during the opening credits and during the gypsy camp scene? Is it the same dancer for both segments?" --Adrian "There are two references to dancers in the cast listing from the Internet Movie database, but it's not clear if they're both in the segments referred to: 'Leila .... Dancer' and 'Lisa Guiraut .... Belly Dancer (uncredited)'." --ecb "...to the best of my recollection, Lisa Guiraut .... Belly Dancer (uncredited) - she's the one who dances in costume at the camp. Leila, who was working in the London clubs at the time, is the one in the credits & over the titling.... Probably a result of Lisa not knowing that title credit isn't automatic & must be negotiated & specified in your contract: where, what size, when (before or after film, who,etc.)....." --Morocco "Then, of course, there is this movie with Sean Connery, in which a very good dancer has a fine sequence, with zills yet!"   -- Cartesio According to the Internet Movie Database (http://us.imdb.com/search.html), the gypsy in "From Russia with Love" was Martine Beswick (Zora the gypsy) and she also danced in the opening credits of Dr. No (1962). If you are speaking of another dancer, I found no reference for her on this source. Sorry. Perhaps she was a local dancer (location was Turkey) who was hired and paid on the spot with no contract and no credit. -- Jerry