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Femme Fatale: Chelo Alonso



Chelo Alonso This Femme Fatale was suggested to us by a visitor and fan of Java's Bachelor Pad. Here name is Chelo Alonso and during her heyday at the Folies Bergere in Paris, France, she was billed as the "Cuban H-Bomb." (As you might remember, the Folies Bergere is the same place that Josephine Baker made a name for herself a few decades earlier.) Alonso took the Afro-Cuban rhythms and dance style from her native land and mixed it with the classic bump-and-grind. She was explosive as her nickname implied, but very few Americans knew she existed until she started her movie career. She was featured in several European movies including "Sign of the Gladiator" (which also starred Anita Ekberg). She was also in a film that most people probably have heard of--it was a small Italian western called "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly."
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