Cleopatra (1934 film)
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| Directed by | Cecil B. DeMille |
| Produced by | Cecil B. DeMille |
| Written by | Waldemar Young Vincent Lawrence Bartlett Cormack (adaptation: historical material) |
| Starring | Claudette Colbert Warren William Henry Wilcoxon Joseph Schildkraut |
| Music by | Rudolph G. Kopp Milan Roder (uncredited) |
| Cinematography | Victor Milner |
| Editing by | Anne Bauchens (uncredited) |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | October 5, 1934 |
| Running time | 100 min |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
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Cleopatra is Cecil B. DeMille's 1934 film made by Paramount Pictures, retelling the story of Cleopatra VII of Egypt.
It was written by Waldemar Young, Vincent Lawrence and Bartlett Cormack, and was produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille.
Claudette Colbert starred as Cleopatra, Warren William as Julius Caesar, Henry Wilcoxon as Marc Antony, Joseph Schildkraut as King Herod, and Ian Keith as Octavian.
In 1934 the Hays code had just taken effect, so DeMille got away with using more risque imagery than he would be able to in his later productions. He opens the film with a naked, strategically lit slavegirl holding up incense burners as the title appears on screen.
The film is also memorable for the sumptuous art deco look of its sets (by Hans Dreier) and costumes (by Travis Banton), the atmospheric music by Rudolph Kopp, and for DeMille's legendary set piece of Cleopatra's seduction of Antony, which takes place on Cleopatra's barge.
The film won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography (Victor Milner), and was nominated Best Picture, Best Assistant Director (Cullen Tate), Best Film Editing (Anne Bauchens), and Best Sound, Recording (Franklin Hansen).
[edit] Cast
- Claudette Colbert as Cleopatra
- Warren William as Julius Caesar
- Henry Wilcoxon as Marc Antony
- Joseph Schildkraut as King Herod
- Ian Keith as Octavian
- Gertrude Michael as Calpurnia
- C. Aubrey Smith as Enobarbus
- Irving Pichel as Apollodorus
- Arthur Hohl as Brutus
- Edwin Maxwell as Casca
- Ian Maclaren as Cassius
- Eleanor Phelps as Charmion
- Leonard Mudie as Pothinos
- Grace Durkin as Iras
- Ferdinand Gottschalk as Glabrio (scenes deleted)
[edit] External links
- Cleopatra at the TCM Movie Database
- Cleopatra at Rotten Tomatoes
- Greatest Films- Cleopatra Critique and plot description.
- CinemaGraphe | Cleopatra 1934
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