# 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
Magical Voyage of Sinbad, The		(title uncertain, Russian, circa 1950-60) featuring dancers inEast Indian costumes during a chess match
Man in The Brown Suit, The		(1989) - A TV movie where stephanie zimbalist plays anne beddingfield, a photographer on a cruise toward egypt. No Dancing, but during a costume party Zimbalist is a pleasent suprise in a reddish purple harem girl costume. I dn't know for sure but it's likely avabile on video. An Agtha Christie Thriller. -- Michael
Man Who Would Be King, The	Guedra	They made the *real* Blue women doing a bit of Guedra take off their fabulous headdresses...... I recently saw the movie "The Man Who Would Be King". It was filmed in Morocco. One scene shows women dancing. It isn't raks sharki. It looks (to my untrained eye) like a welcoming dance. The women are dressed in what looks like maroon-colored melias (a robe made by wrapping a length of fabric around the body and pinning it at the shoulders). They are shown making hand gestures and zaghareeting.The movie also has interesting bits of music and costuming throughout.---Joya, And Robyn responds:   I believe these are guedra dancers.   THis film was shot mostly in Morocco, and not in Central Asia where the story actually takes place. the dancers in the film "The Man Who Would be King" are Guedra dancers. As an avid student of our Aunty Rocky's (esp. in re: to Guedra) I was told that these women are the actual dancers from Goulimine, Morocco that did the Guedra ritual with B'Shara, the most famous Guedra that I know of. According to our Aunty (Aunty Rocky, pls. feel free to correct me anytime if I am wrong!) B'Shara performed often in the royal courts and Rocky lived/studied with the woman and became friends until B'Shara's death a few years back.So the movements they are doing *are* authentic Guedra, but the costuming is Hollywood all the way(or at least *most* of the way! ;-D) --Kajira Djoumahna
Man With Bogart's Face, The	Jacqueline Lombardi Kamala Mishmish Sybil Danning	(1976) "...excellent movie; the longest belly dancing scene I have seen in a movie/on TV. 6-7 minutes. Very good!" -- Review by Mike S. --> The queen bee of belly dance on the silver screen. The mesmerizing action takes place at the (fictional) Blue Fez Cafe on LA's Sunset Strip, a richly sumptuous Middle Eastern nightclub owned by Mustafa Hakim, a Turkish shipping tycoon and the film's resident villain. Hakim and his guests, seated on pillows and smoking Arabic water pipes, are entertained by a fantastic live Middle Eastern band (complete with, I believe, oud, bouzouki, and kanoon). Amidst dozens of enthusiastic zaghareets from the female members in the audience, three very beautiful, talented, and voluptuous dancers (Mishmish, Kamala, and Jacqueline Lombardi), slither out with zills briskly ringing. No quick flashes of belly dancers to be relegated to the background here - this scene features nearly seven minutes of electric shimmies, rolling bellies, and swirling veils - with lots of fantastic close-ups and barely a word of dialogue spoken by the rest of the amazed (and increasingly overheated) cast. The scene builds to an explosive climax involving the wickedly curvaceous Sybil Danning. Whether they let out a few thrilled zaghareets of their own or simply watch in rapt attention, fans and aficionados' visit to the Blue Fez is sure to make hearts beat faster all around. -- Mike S.
Man With The Golden Gun, The	Carmen de/le Sautoy	(1974) An extremely poor Roger Moore 007 entry, this one features an excellent dancer. Junk "Bond", fantastic dancer. James Bond movie. "I can only tell you about the dancer at the beginning of the Man with the Golden Gun. She's an English Actress called Carmen de/le Sautoy." --Ruth Has 007 in a Beirut nightclub (scene appears a few minutes after the title credits) watching a b-d perform. The dancer uses the golden bullet that killed another 00 agent as her good luck navel charm which 007 attempts to retrieve. -- Deborah
Männer sind wie Schokolade		German movie turkish wedding in germany with a dancer -- Stephanie
Marlowe	Camille Grant	(1969)
Mary Magdalene		TV movie, PAX cable channel - Herod's daughter bellydances
Mata Hari	Greta Garbo	(1932) Greta Garbo does a passable Javanese/Mid East dance...though her costume is improbable to say the least. The great Greta Garbo is a not-bad Mata. And instead of bumping and grinding, she actually dances.
Mata Hari		Biography - Mata Hari (1996)
Meridian	Nashira	(1990)
Modesty Blaize
Monster and The Stripper, The	June Russell	(1968)
Morocco		(1930) It's not a bad movie, it's actually very good and one of my all-time favorites: Morocco (the movie, not the New Yorker), with Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich and directed by Josef von Sternberg. This film was made in 1930 (almost an early talkie), and features a few seconds of the upper arms of a woman playing zills, to set a scene in a nightclub. I would suggest this film for many reasons, including the educational value for the budding nightclub entertainer of the nightclub numbers by Ms. Dietrich. -jj-
Moulin Rouge		...just saw it today. There is an extensive scene later on in the picture with Nicole Kidman looking sensational in...hmm. I know traditional Arabian bellydance costume is sometimes referred to as "bedleh" but what would Indian bellydance costuming be referred to? Anyway, she looked terrific in a terrific movie. -- Paul
Mr. Wrong	Shayla	Ellen DeGeneres
Mummy, The		Well, I know one thing that was visually unappealing... the bellydancer in The Mummy. Totally broke the flow of the movie for me. Too bad with soooooooooo many lovely and talented dancers out there, that they have to parody the dance with tackiness. It didn't even help the plot..... I don't know... but isn't there some way to bust into Hollywood and give them a zill upside the head??? "I am STILL wondering if I missed something in this movie. I only saw one person that could possibly be described as a belly dancer, and as far as I was concerned, she was set dressing. She was escorting a British officer out of the bar scene, apparently listening intently to him. I never saw any dancing" - Laurie For those who didn't see The Mummy, the dancer in question was there for comic relief. She did no dancing, exisisting only as a prop for a stereotypical British soldier. It was not a completely unnecessary scene--it did establish the Brit as somewhat of a lush and a womanizer, but it wasn't an integral plot-point. I don't know if you've seen the The Mummy Returns yet, but I've been advising all my dancing-lady friends to see it. If only for the Egyptian folklore. The rest of it seems like a tired - and completely unintentional - rip off of the Beatles' "Help!" Though hearing Rachel Weisz saying "bellydansah" in her wonderful British accent was worth the price of admission for yours truly! - Paul B
Murders in the Rue Morgue		snippets only - Gwyn
Muttertag		Austrian movie - two actresses dress like belly dancers and do a bit of dancing for a preacher -- Stephanie

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