Aloma of the South Seas (1926 film)
Aloma of the South Seas is a lost 1926 American silent comedy drama film starring Gilda Gray as an erotic dancer, filmed in Puerto Rico and Bermuda, and based on a 1925 play of the same title by John B. Hymer and LeRoy Clemens.
1926 advertisement
Gilda Gray, 1922 publicity photo
Aloma of the South Seas lantern slide
Gilda Gray was a Polish-American dancer and actress who popularized a dance called the "shimmy" which became fashionable in 1920s films and theater productions.
Gray c.1920
Gilda Gray as the Hula-Hula Girl in Theatre Magazine, April, 1922
Publicity photo remade into painting, "South Sea Island idyll" by Henry Hintermeister, c. 1922.
Gilda Gray in October 1921