Cleopatra (movie) 

The 1917 Fox film was directed by J. Gordon Edwards[?] and starred Theda Bara in the title role. Fritz Leiber played Julius Caesar and Thurston Hall[?] played Marc Antony.
Theda Bara as Cleopatra It was one of the most elaborate Hollywood films ever produced up to that time, with particularly lavish sets and costumes. The story of this silent film was very loosly based on the plot of William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. Theda Bara appeared in a variety of fantastic costumes, some quite risque. The film was a great success at the time. Years later with the imposition of Hollywood's Hays Code the film was judged too obscene to be shown, and no surviving prints are known to exist.

The 1934 film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture and won for cinematography (Victor Milner). It was written by Bartlett Cormack[?], Vincent Lawrence[?], and Valdemar Young[?] and was directed by Cecil B. DeMille. It starred Claudette Colbert as Cleopatra, Warren William[?] as Julius Caesar, Henry Wilcoxon as Marc Antony, Joseph Schildkraut[?] as King Herod, and Ian Keith[?] as Octavian. Hollywood legend says that Claudette Colbert was completely nude during a scene where she bathed in a tub of milk.

The 1963 film was also nominated for Best Picture and won for cinematography, art direction, costumes, sets, and special effects. It was written by Sidney Buchman[?], Ben Hecht, Ranald MacDougall[?], and Joseph L. Mankiewicz[?] from a book by Carlo Mario Franzero[?] and was directed by Mankiewicz. It starred Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra, Richard Burton as Marc Antony, and Rex Harrison as Julius Caesar (nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor).

The 1963 film is infamous for bankrupting 20th Century Fox. It was made at a cost of $40 million -- an impossibly extravagant figure for that time. It was not a box-office flop, but it did not perform nearly as well as Fox hoped, and the financial loss from the film forced the studio to file for bankruptcy. Supposedly, the film is still listed as a negative cost for Fox today, which means that, technically, the movie still has not made back its initial investment. The suit of golden armor worn in the movie by Elizabeth Taylor was made from real gold, at a cost of about $1 million. It was so heavy that she could only wear it for short periods of time.

The 1999 Cleopatra: starred Leonor Varela[?] (Cleopatra), Timothy Dalton (Caesar), and Billy Zane[?] (Antony). Based on the book Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George[?] and more faithful to history than the earlier versions, it was shown first on television and then released on videotape.

On May 12, 2003, tied in with the 40th anniversary of the 1963 film, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a 45-minute romantic comedy, written by David Varela (no relation to Leonor) called Olivia's Line. The play is set during the location shoot in Rome. Incidental music is taken from the 1963 film's score. For more information about the play, and information on how you can listen to it online visit: http://www.davidvarela.com/ftvr_olivia.html

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