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-'''Semiramis''' was a legendary [[Assyria]]n queen, also known as '''Semiramide''', '''Semiramida''', or '''Shamiram'''. +'''Rhonda Fleming''' (born '''Marilyn Louis'''; August 10, 1923 – October 14, 2020) was an American film and television actress and singer. She acted in more than 40 films, mostly in the 1940s and 1950s, and became renowned as one of the most glamorous actresses of her day, nicknamed the "Queen of [[Technicolor]]" because she photographed so well in that medium.
-Many legends have accumulated around her personality. Various efforts have been made to identify her with real persons. She is sometimes identified with [[Shammuramat]], the Babylonian wife of [[Shamshi-Adad V]] (ruled 811 BC–808 BC). +==Filmography==
 +{| class="wikitable sortable"
 +|-
 +! Year
 +! Title
 +! Role
 +! Notes
 +|-
 +| 1943 || ''[[In Old Oklahoma]]'' || Dance-hall girl || Uncredited
 +|-
 +| rowspan=2|1944 || ''[[Since You Went Away]]'' || Girl at dance || Uncredited
 +|-
 +| ''[[When Strangers Marry]]'' || Girl on train || Uncredited
 +|-
 +| 1945 || ''[[Spellbound (1945 film)|Spellbound]]'' || Mary Carmichael ||
 +|-
 +| rowspan=2|1946 || ''[[Abilene Town]]'' || Sherry Balder ||
 +|-
 +| ''[[The Spiral Staircase (1946 film)|The Spiral Staircase]]'' || Blanche ||
 +|-
 +| rowspan=2|1947 || ''[[Adventure Island (film)|Adventure Island]]'' || Faith Wishart ||
 +|-
 +| ''[[Out of the Past]]'' || Meta Carson ||
 +|-
 +| rowspan=2|1949 || ''[[A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949 film)|A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court]]'' || Alisande La Carteloise ||
 +|-
 +| ''[[The Great Lover (1949 film)|The Great Lover]]'' || Duchess Alexandria ||
 +|-
 +| 1950 || ''[[The Eagle and the Hawk (1950 film)|The Eagle and the Hawk]]'' || Mrs. Madeline Danzeeger ||
 +|-
 +| rowspan=5|1951 || ''[[Cry Danger]]'' || Nancy Morgan ||
 +|-
 +| ''[[The Redhead and the Cowboy]]'' || Candace Bronson ||
 +|-
 +| ''[[The Last Outpost (1951 film)|The Last Outpost]]'' || Julie McQuade ||
 +|-
 +| ''[[Little Egypt (film)|Little Egypt]]'' || Izora ||
 +|-
 +| ''[[Crosswinds (film)|Crosswinds]]'' || Katherine Shelley ||
 +|-
 +| rowspan=2|1952 || ''[[Hong Kong (film)|Hong Kong]]'' || Victoria Evans ||
 +|-
 +| ''[[The Golden Hawk]]'' || Captain Rouge ||
 +|-
 +| rowspan=5|1953 || ''[[Tropic Zone (film)|Tropic Zone]]'' || Flanders White ||
 +|-
 +| ''[[Serpent of the Nile]]'' || [[Cleopatra]] ||
 +|-
 +| ''[[Pony Express (film)|Pony Express]]'' || Evelyn Hastings ||
 +|-
 +| ''[[Inferno (1953 film)|Inferno]]'' || Geraldine Carson ||
 +|-
 +| ''[[Those Redheads From Seattle]]'' || Kathie Edmonds ||
 +|-
 +| rowspan=2|1954 || ''[[Jivaro (film)|Jivaro]]'' || Alice Parker ||
 +|-
 +| ''[[Yankee Pasha (film)|Yankee Pasha]]'' || Roxana Reil ||
 +|-
 +| rowspan=2|1955 || ''[[Queen of Babylon]]'' || Semiramis ||
 +|-
 +| ''[[Tennessee's Partner]]'' || Elizabeth "Duchess" Farnham ||
 +|-
 +| rowspan=4|1956 || ''[[The Killer Is Loose]]'' || Lila Wagner ||
 +|-
 +| ''[[Slightly Scarlet (1956 film)|Slightly Scarlet]]'' || June Lyons ||
 +|-
 +| ''[[While the City Sleeps (1956 film)|While the City Sleeps]]'' || Dorothy Kyne ||
 +|-
 +| ''[[Odongo]]'' || Pamela Muir ||
 +|-
 +| rowspan=3|1957 || ''[[The Buster Keaton Story]]'' || Peggy Courtney ||
 +|-
 +| ''[[Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (film)|Gunfight at the O.K. Corral]]'' || Laura Denbow ||
 +|-
 +| ''[[Gun Glory]]'' || Jo ||
 +|-
 +| rowspan=2|1958 || ''[[Bullwhip (film)|Bullwhip]]'' || Cheyenne O'Malley ||
 +|-
 +| ''[[Home Before Dark (film)|Home Before Dark]]'' || Joan Carlisle ||
 +|-
 +| rowspan=2|1959 || ''[[Alias Jesse James]]'' || Cora Lee Collins ||
 +|-
 +| ''[[The Big Circus]]'' || Helen Harrison ||
 +|-
 +| rowspan=2|1960 || ''[[The Crowded Sky]]'' || Cheryl "Charro" Heath ||
 +|-
 +| ''[[The Revolt of the Slaves]]'' || [[Saint Fabiola|Fabiola]] ||
 +|-
 +| rowspan=2|1964 || ''[[The Patsy (1964 film)|The Patsy]]'' || Herself ||
 +|-
 +| ''[[Pão de Açúcar]]'' || Pamela Jones DeSantis ||
 +|-
 +| 1965 || ''[[Run for Your Wife (1965 film)|Run for Your Wife]]'' || Nyta ||
 +|-
 +| 1976 || ''[[Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood]]'' || Herself ||
 +|-
 +| 1980 || ''[[The Nude Bomb]]'' || Edith Von Secondberg ||
 +|-
 +| 1990 || ''Waiting for the Wind'' || Hannah || Short, (final film role)
 +|}
-The legends narrated by [[Diodorus Siculus]], [[Junianus Justinus|Justin]] and others from [[Ctesias|Ctesias of Cnidus]] make a picture of her and her relationship to King [[Ninus]]. +== Television ==
-==In later traditions==+* ''[[Colgate Comedy Hour]]'' (1951) (guest with [[Abbott and Costello]] and [[Errol Flynn]])
 +* ''[[What's My Line?]]'' (1955) (celebrity mystery guest)
 +* ''[[The Red Skelton Show]]'' (1955) (as Phyllis in "Freddy's Romance")
 +* ''[[Wagon Train]]'' (1958) (as Jennifer Churchill in "The Jennifer Churchill Story")
 +* ''Wagon Train'' (1961) (as Patience Miller in "The Patience Miller Story")
 +* ''[[Here's Hollywood]]'' (1961) (celebrity guest with third husband, [[Lang Jeffries]])
 +* ''[[The Dick Powell Show]]'' (1961) (as Margo Haley in episode "John J. Diggs")
 +* ''Wagon Train'' (1963) (as Sandra Cummings in "The Sandra Cummings Story")
 +* ''[[The Virginian (TV series)|The Virginian]]'' (1964) (guest star in episode "We've lost a train")
 +* ''[[Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre]]'' (1964) (as Purity in episode "Have Girls, Will Travel")
 +* ''[[Needles and Pins (TV series)|Needles and Pins]]'' (1973) (guest star in episode "It Was a Very Good Line")
 +* ''[[McMillan and Wife]]'' (1974) (guest star in episode "Cross and Double-cross")
 +* ''[[Kung Fu (1972 TV series)|Kung Fu]]'' (1975) (guest star as Jennie Malone in episode "Ambush")
 +* ''[[The Love Boat]]'' (1978) (celebrity guest)
-*In ''[[The Divine Comedy]]'', Dante sees Semiramis among the souls of the lustful in the Second Circle of [[Hell]]: 
- 
-<blockquote> 
- 
-And as the cranes go chanting forth their lays,<br> 
-Making in air a long line of themselves, <br> 
-So saw I coming, uttering lamentations, <br> 
-Shadows borne onward by the aforesaid stress.<br> 
-<br> 
-Whereupon said I: "Master, who are those People, whom the black air so castigates?" <br> 
-"The first of those, of whom intelligence Thou fain wouldst have," then said he unto me,<br> 
-"The empress was of many languages. To sensual vices she was so abandoned, <br> 
-That lustful she made licit in her law, <br> 
-<br> 
-To remove the blame to which she had been led.<br> 
-She is Semiramis. . . <br> 
-She succeeded Ninus, and was his spouse;<br> 
-She held the land which now the Sultan rules. 
-</blockquote> 
- 
-She married her son after Ninus' death and lived with him. 
- 
-Semiramis appears in many plays and [[opera]]s, for example [[Voltaire]]'s tragedy ''Semiramis'' and operas with the title ''Semiramiae'' by [[Domenico Cimarosa]], [[Marcos Portugal]], [[Josef Mysliveček]], and [[Gioachino Rossini]]. [[Arthur Honegger]] composed music for [[Paul Valery]]'s eponymous 'ballet-pantomime' in 1934 that was only revived in 1992 after many years of neglect. In [[Eugene Ionesco]]'s play [[The Chairs]], the Old Woman is referred to as Semiramis. 
- 
-She has also appeared in several [[sword and sandal]] films, including the 1954 film ''[[Queen of Babylon]]'' in which she was played by [[Rhonda Fleming]], and the 1963 film ''[[I am Semiramis]]'' in which she was played by [[Yvonne Furneaux]]. An Italian progressive rock group named Semiramis released one album in 1973. 
- 
-In literature Semiramis often stands as an icon of beauty. 
- 
-In [[William Faulkner]]'s ''[[Snopes Trilogy]]'' Eula Varner is her modern incarnation. Faulkner quite likely got the name from ''Inferno'' V where she appears in the same list as [[Helen of Troy]] as those punished for uncontrolled passion. 
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Rhonda Fleming (born Marilyn Louis; August 10, 1923 – October 14, 2020) was an American film and television actress and singer. She acted in more than 40 films, mostly in the 1940s and 1950s, and became renowned as one of the most glamorous actresses of her day, nicknamed the "Queen of Technicolor" because she photographed so well in that medium.

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Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1943 In Old Oklahoma Dance-hall girl Uncredited
1944 Since You Went Away Girl at dance Uncredited
When Strangers Marry Girl on train Uncredited
1945 Spellbound Mary Carmichael
1946 Abilene Town Sherry Balder
The Spiral Staircase Blanche
1947 Adventure Island Faith Wishart
Out of the Past Meta Carson
1949 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Alisande La Carteloise
The Great Lover Duchess Alexandria
1950 The Eagle and the Hawk Mrs. Madeline Danzeeger
1951 Cry Danger Nancy Morgan
The Redhead and the Cowboy Candace Bronson
The Last Outpost Julie McQuade
Little Egypt Izora
Crosswinds Katherine Shelley
1952 Hong Kong Victoria Evans
The Golden Hawk Captain Rouge
1953 Tropic Zone Flanders White
Serpent of the Nile Cleopatra
Pony Express Evelyn Hastings
Inferno Geraldine Carson
Those Redheads From Seattle Kathie Edmonds
1954 Jivaro Alice Parker
Yankee Pasha Roxana Reil
1955 Queen of Babylon Semiramis
Tennessee's Partner Elizabeth "Duchess" Farnham
1956 The Killer Is Loose Lila Wagner
Slightly Scarlet June Lyons
While the City Sleeps Dorothy Kyne
Odongo Pamela Muir
1957 The Buster Keaton Story Peggy Courtney
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral Laura Denbow
Gun Glory Jo
1958 Bullwhip Cheyenne O'Malley
Home Before Dark Joan Carlisle
1959 Alias Jesse James Cora Lee Collins
The Big Circus Helen Harrison
1960 The Crowded Sky Cheryl "Charro" Heath
The Revolt of the Slaves Fabiola
1964 The Patsy Herself
Pão de Açúcar Pamela Jones DeSantis
1965 Run for Your Wife Nyta
1976 Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood Herself
1980 The Nude Bomb Edith Von Secondberg
1990 Waiting for the Wind Hannah Short, (final film role)
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