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Movie Title	Dancer	Description
Hairdresser's Husband, The		the French version a funny French flick has some great RaksSharki music, but not any dancing unless you want to have a great giggle at the main character as he "shimmies" and dances to the music he loves. Prude warning:It does have some sex scenes, but no full nudity, just boob flashes. All in all, a very funny flick with a rather sad ending, but set to some awesome music.--Roya
Hamam		(Also released as "The Turkish Bath" and "Steam") This carefully paced and beautifully filmed drama explores the culture clash from the perspective of a turkish italian who returns to his homeland to sell the bathhouse he's inherited and discovers romance and a lifestyle far preferable to the one he left in Italy. made in 1996 directed by Ferzan Ozpetek, subtitled -- Ruth Absolutely Remarkable Music -- Aziza Sa'id Soundtrack to Steam
Hammer House of Horror: Countess Dracula		"...most of the victims were gypsy/bellydancers." --Barbarella
Happy Hooker Goes To Washington, The		(1975) Starring Adam West & Joey Heatherton, based partially on Xaviera Hollander's, adventures, this stinker's redeeming quality is a bevy of wonderful dancers. A lousy movie, but terrific bellydancers.
Hard Arabian Nights		(a.k.a. 1,001 Erotic Nights, U.S., 1982)
Harem		starring Nastassja Kinski, Ben Kingsley 1985
Harem		Nancy Travis, Art Malik, Omar Sharif, Ava Gardner, Julian Sands, Sarah Miles It is set in turn-of-the-century Turkey (then the Ottoman Empire) and featured some really beautiful clothes! There was also a very brief scene with some dancers performing belly rolls in the palace garden. - Vicki
Harry and Walter Go To New York	Yolanda Mayer	(1976)
Harum Scarum	Brenda Benet Gail Gilmore Wilda Taylor	Starring Elvis Presley. I found the movie to be awful, but they have 3 gypsy type dancers named emerald (Brenda Benet), amethyst (Wilda Taylor), and sapphire (Gail Gilmore) dancing in a crowd with tambourines. The best thing though was a cute little girl who danced with Elvis, and she looked like she had the beginnings of something nice. I liked her arm and head movements. It did not last long, but she was adorable.
Head	Helena   Kallianiotes Tania Lemani	(U.S., 1968) starring the Monkees, featuring a bevy of belly dancers, including Helena   Kallianiotes "Several dancers in one "harem fantasy" scene; most are go-go dancers but a few appear legit." "According to the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com), the only listing under "more credits" was "Helena Kallianiotes....Belly Dancer (uncredited)". She was a well-known L.A. dancer at the time, also an excellent actress & girlfriend of Jack Nicholson, before Anjelica Huston. You can see her as the wacko hitchhiker in "Five Easy Pieces" & co-star of a movie about Roller Derby women (with Raquel Welsh). A former San Francisco teacher would like to think that Bob Mackie "invented" the coin costume specifically for Helena, when we were wearing coin costumes in NYC many years prior to her also wearing one. She had a contract to dance at the Roundtable in NYC in late '63 or early '64: great sense of humor, excellent show woman & would not take the b.s. hassles dished out by the wacko oud player band leader, so she quit & went back to L.A."   --Morocco "Additional production information: "Head" was the first film collaboration to be written and produced by Jack Nicholson and Bob Rafelson (their next happened to be "Five Easy Pieces"). Since Jack and Helena were an item at the time, it makes perfect sense that he'd include her in this section of his work (to the music "Can You Dig It", which did *not* happen to be one of the numbers from the film that were written by Carol King btw). Most of the other "dancers" in the scene *weren't* M.E. dancers, and this is more than obvious by watching them as they all (except for the lovely Helena) come across as go-go dancers.I assume that since Toni Basil (one of my favorite general choreographers) did the choreography for the entire film that she had relatively total control on how that particular scene was choreographed (though she probably didn't have the right of final film edit control).It is a very interesting film from that time, though I know that many people have a hard time getting past the fact that it's "The Monkeys". Don't view it from that prejudice.View it based on Bob and Jack's writing (Jack is a warped and wicked guy), Toni's choreographies, and Helena's dancing (what you can discern of it) among all the "drop ins" (Toni herself, Jack, Dennis Hopper, Terry Garr, Frank Zappa, etc.)." --Tedi
Head of a Tyrant	Isabelle Corey
Headless Ghost	Josephine Blake	1960's British Comedy, Josephine Blake as Kooch Dancer
Hell Squad	Anaheed Narayana	(1985)
Hell With Heroes , The	Tania Lemani	Rod Taylor (1968)
Help!	Durra	(1965)The Beatles' director Richard Lester liked bellydancers. He features one briefly in this movie. A Dancer is seen in an Indian restaurant. "The boys go to an Indian restaurant in London. The entertainment is a belly dancer in a gold costume who dances to "A Hard Day's Night," as rendered by a sitar and Indian band. The sequence is fairly long." --Stefania Of course, another film from "swinging" London in the '60s is "Help!". Paul McCartney is mesmerized by a belly dancer in pink ("Doesn't the blood rush to your stomach, then?"), before she is whisked away and replaced by the lovely Ahme (Eleanor Bron). - Talibah
Hercules		Old 50's movies w/ gorgeous Steve Reeve as Herc, used more Grecian toga styles, but usually one or more had a seductive dancer-type -- Amira
History Of The World, Part I, The		(1982) There is a clip of a dancer (not a too short clip, either) in the movie "History of the World, Part 1". It's a typical Mel Brookes comedy. The dancer comes out to, uh-hem, verify that the Eunichs that guard the Queen's harem are indeed Eunichs. Of course it doesn't portray ME dance in the best context but (if memory serves) the dancer was not bad, did some veil, and even executes a Turkish drop at the end of her dance. Check it out. If nothing else, it's an hilarious movie (if you like Mel Brookes). -- Ileana
Hitman, The	Sarita	starring Chuck Norris
Hot Box, The	Laurie Rose (aka Mesmera)	(1972)
House of 1000 Dolls, The		(1967) Poor movie. Poor dancer.
How Do I Love Thee?	Soroya Farah	(1970)
How To Make an American Quilt		" I was watching the movie "American Quilt" this weekend where the girl is supposedly doing a thesis on women's crafts worldwide and the second time the wierd tribal sounds come up in the background, I said "That sounds really familiar ..." and then IT"S GUEDRA .....I swear it was!" --Me'ira
Hunchback of Notre Dame,   The	Gina Lollobrigida	Gina Lollobrigida
Hunchback of Notre Dame,   The	Salma Hayak	(1997) She wouldn't make the millions she does acting, but Salma Hayek would-in my humble estimation-be a world-class pro dancer if she so chose. In this remake, is "Esmeralda", the Rom dancer.  "On Entertainment Tonight recently I saw actress Salma Hayak doing something that resembled 'raks sharki' in preparation for her role as Esmerelda in the televised version of 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame.' The clip said she had been practicing to perform a gypsy dance for the movie; the actress herself said something about hoping to create a dance which demonstrated both sensuality and innocence. It's going to be on [Turner Network] in America this [March 16, 1997]..." --Rachel Newcomb