Caesar and Cleopatra (1945 film)
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| Directed by | Gabriel Pascal |
| Produced by | Gabriel Pascal |
| Written by | George Bernard Shaw |
| Starring | Claude Rains Vivien Leigh |
| Editing by | Frederick Wilson |
| Release date(s) | 1945 |
| Running time | 129 min |
| Country | UK |
| Language | English |
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Caesar and Cleopatra is a 1945 film starring Claude Rains and Vivien Leigh, produced and directed by Gabriel Pascal from the 1901 play by George Bernard Shaw.
[edit] The film
Filmed in Technicolor with lavish sets, the production was rumoured to be the most expensive film ever made in Britain at that time. Pascal went so overboard with this production that he went to Egypt to collect sand to get the right color. It was described as a "box office stinker" at the time, and virtually ended Pascal's career. It was the last film version of a Shaw play personally overseen by the author. Gabriel Pascal went on to produce only one more Shaw film, the 1952 version of Androcles and the Lion, which he did not direct. It was directed by Chester Erskine and starred Jean Simmons, Alan Young, Maurice Evans, and, incongruously, Victor Mature, the "hunk" leading man of such films as The Robe and Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah (1949 film).
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- Movie Production Stills 1
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- Film Facts
- Caesar and Cleopatra at the Internet Movie Database
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| The Plays of George Bernard Shaw |
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| Plays Unpleasant : The Philanderer, Mrs Warren's Profession, Widowers' Houses Plays Pleasant : Arms and the Man, Candida, The Man of Destiny, You Never Can Tell Three Plays for Puritans : Caesar and Cleopatra, Captain Brassbound's Conversion, The Devil's Disciple Back to Methuselah, a cycle of 5 plays : In the Beginning: B.C. 4004 (In the Garden of Eden), The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas: Present Day, The Thing Happens: A.D. 2170, Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman: A.D. 3000, As Far as Thought Can Reach: A.D. 31,920 Other Plays : Androcles and the Lion, The Apple Cart, The Doctor's Dilemma, Fanny's First Play, Geneva, Heartbreak House, John Bull's Other Island, Major Barbara, Man and Superman, Misalliance, Pygmalion, Saint Joan |
