Unknown actress as Ayesha in She

Gelatin silver reference print of an unknown actress who played the ageing Ayesha in place of Ursula Andress for the distintegration scene of 'She' (1965). Ayesha had achieved immortality by bathing in the ice blue flames of a mystic fire, but a second visit to the flames proved fatal and the climax of the film shows Ayesha's transformation to the hideous appearance of her true age. The disintegration sequence was carried out by Roy Ashton at Elstree Studios while the location filming for this sequence toom place in Israel.

Details

Category:
Cinematography
Collection:
Roy Ashton & Phil Leakey Collection
Object Number:
2000-5000/602
type:
photograph and gelatin silver print
credit:
National Media Museum, Bradford