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Caesar and Cleopatra (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.
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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.
- A 17 year old Roger Moore appears in the film (uncredited).
- Jean Simmons has a non-speaking role as a harpist.
- John Gielgud was Shaw's first choice for the role of Caesar but declined the offer after meeting with the director Gabriel Pascal and taking an instant dislike towards him.[1]
- ^ Croall, Jonathan, Gielgud: A Theatrical Life 1904-2000, Continuum (2001) pg. 360
- Caesar and Cleopatra at the Internet Movie Database
- Caesar and Cleopatra at the TCM Movie Database
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