Six-armed Dancer
Mary Morris, who plays the role of an exotic Kastern dancer in Alexander Korda's t eeimicolour spectacle "The Thief of Bagdad,'' appears in one scene as a six-armed mechanical doll. Her make-up for this scene took four and a-half hours to apply, and her whole body was sprayed with silver and blue make-up. in her dance she appears as a six-armed figure, and during the dance one of her arms stabs the sultan.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23861, 11 January 1941, Page 5 (Supplement)
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75Six-armed Dancer New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23861, 11 January 1941, Page 5 (Supplement)
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