The 1963 film Cleopatra was a trailblazing project for a number of reasons. Elizabeth Taylor, who was already a well-established film star, snagged the lead role with ease as the movie’s producer, ...
It's been 50 years since the epic British-American-Swiss production Cleopatra, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, took the cinema world by storm. Cleopatra ...
To understand the scale of the budgetary and box-office double-whammy that did for Joseph L Mankiewicz's elephantine 1963 version of Cleopatra, it's worth noting that of the 50 most expensive movies ...
There was the spectacle, the runaway budget, the fights with the studio. But almost everyone thinks about the 1963 movie “Cleopatra” for one thing: Liz and Dick. Martin Landau remembers the day when ...
The Elizabeth Taylor extravaganza influenced designs for decades. Soon, a new remake may have us all wearing scarabs again. By David Belcher Sixty years ago this summer, production finally wrapped on ...