Vanity (Denise Katrina Matthews 1959-2016) Barbara Hershey, The Last Temptation of Christ, 1987.     During 1983 -  during the 16 years it took to film the Nikos Kazantzakis novel - the slinky chanteuse was selected as Mary Magdalene.   Butt was Barbara Hershey who gave Martin Scorsese the book as a gift during their Boxcar Bertha in 1971. Copyright © 2023 Crawley's Casting Calls. All Rights Reserved. Joomla! is Free Software released under the GNU General Public License.