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Chelo Alonso

December 7, 2014 Leave a Comment Written by sola rey

Nationality: Cuban

Cuban father and Mexican mother

She took her trade to Paris in 1957 and became the toast of the Folies Bergère as an up-and-coming Josephine Baker

Chelo Alonso combined her native Afro-Cuban rhythms with a seductive belly-dancing style that encouraged wolf whistles wherever she toured, which would eventually include Puerto Rico, Haiti and even the United States.

http://youtu.be/QPNkDo6OMYI

Chelo Alonso first attracted attention with the film Sheba and the Gladiator (1959) [Sign of the Gladiator] where her erotically-charged dance segment stole the thunder right from under the movie’s top-billed sex star, Swedish siren Anita Ekberg.

http://youtu.be/0d_XOkUvHvs

http://youtu.be/ljTCm2343dQ

I’ve read books, seen history photos of the wild west, watched a few western movies and I have never seen an outfit like that above in those times.

http://youtu.be/ucc1ovZZn_Y?t=50s

Actors, Beauty

Chelo Alonso

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