Cléopâtre (film, 1917)

See also: Cléopâtre (film)

Cléopâtre ( Cleopatra ) is a film of J. Gordon Edwards, left in 1917. The film was censured a long time, and the last copies burned in a fire in Fox. There remains about it today only some fragments.

Synopsis

History of Cléopâtre, queen of Egypt, and the lovesong binding it to Jules César and Antoine.

Data sheet

Distribution

  • Theda Bara… Cléopâtre
  • Fritz Leiber… César
  • Thurston Hall… Antoine
  • Alan Roscoe… Pharon
  • Herschel Mayall… Ventidius
  • Dorothy Drake… Charmian
  • Delle Duncan... Will go
  • Henri De Vries… Octavien
  • Art Acord… Kephren
  • Hector Sarno... Messenger
  • Genevieve Blinn… Octavia

Anecdotes

  • Cléopâtre was the most elaborate film of its time, with a budget of 500.000 dollars and 2000 employees.
  • Theda Bara appears in a great number of costumes, of which some are rather dared. A few years later when the Code Hays was imposed on Hollywood the film obscene was judged too much to be diffused.

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