The first in a season of classic films for the holiday featuring historical adventure and romance. Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison
One of the greatest of all Hollywood epics, Cleopatra is the story of the life and times of the famous Queen of the Nile. Under Mankiewicz's direction, the film emerges as a dazzling spectacle, with Elizabeth Taylor never more beautiful as the most famous femme fatale of all time.
Screenplay by JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ, RANALD MACDOUGALL and SIDNEY BUCHMAN
Based on histories by PLUTARCH, SUETONIUS, APPIAN, other sources and The Life and Times of Cleopatra by C.C.M. FRANZERO
Produced by WALTER WANGER
Directed by JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ
Films: pages 16-17
(Part 2 tomorrow at 3.25 pm)