'Lola Montes'

Lola Montes was a real person. She was actually Irish, born Eliza Rosanna Gilbert in or around 1818. She then, apparently, took the world by storm.

She became a dancer and courtesan in London, Paris, Munich and various other European cities. She did indeed seduce King Ludwig of Bavaria and Alexander Dumas.

Montez finally wound up in the United States and Australia, where she did her spider dance -- allegedly -- hiking her dress up so high that it clearly showed she wasn't wearing any undergarments.

Montez sounds like a neat person.

The film Montes performs in a circus as a sort of a sideshow freak where her many conquests are retold to an audience and thus her life is retold.

Montes is portrayed by the gorgeous Martine Carol, who was married four times, attempted suicide, struggled with drug abuse and was even kidnapped by Pierrot Le Fou. Anyway, she was breathtakingly beautiful.