The Better Cleopatra
The Better Cleopatra
#0The Better Cleopatra
Posted: 8/29/04 at 12:48amVivien Leigh or Elizabeth Taylor?
judy_in_disguise
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/31/04
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#3re: The Better Cleopatra
Posted: 8/29/04 at 1:05am
Viv was Cleopatra in 1945. Cesar and Cleopatra was an Alexander Korda production if I remember correctly.
Claude Raines was Cesar and Flora Robson was Ftatoteeta.
Cesar and Cleopatra was based on the George Bernard Shaw play. As I remember it when Vivien asked G B Shaw if he thought her a good enough actress to play Cleo, he replied that she shouldn't be silly. The role plays itself.
judy_in_disguise
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/31/04
#4re: The Better Cleopatra
Posted: 8/29/04 at 1:35am
I played Cleo in Shaw's play.
The role sort of DOES play itself, it was incredibly well written.
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#5re: The Better Cleopatra
Posted: 8/29/04 at 1:36amGotta go with Liz on this one, Glebb.
#6re: The Better Cleopatra
Posted: 8/29/04 at 1:38amOh, I love em both. :) But I must say I enjoy the extra DVD with the Liz version. The film had way too many mishaps before shooting started and that along with Liz getting ill put her in overtime before she filmed her first scene.
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#7re: The Better Cleopatra
Posted: 8/29/04 at 1:40amWell, the film is historic for many reasons and the behind the scenes stories are priceless. Not to mention the impact it had on 20th Century Fox.
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#8re: The Better Cleopatra
Posted: 8/29/04 at 3:39amClaudette Colbert.
MasterLcZ
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/12/03
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#10re: The Better Cleopatra
Posted: 8/29/04 at 10:07am
Liz.
I saw the movie when I was about 11 - heavily into puberty. The scene where the servants bring a rolled up rug to Caesar, then unroll it and she is inside - one of the hottes things I've ever seen. Liz has never looked sexier.
That said, Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara was the most beautiful face ever on screen.
#11re: The Better Cleopatra
Posted: 8/29/04 at 10:19amI've tried several times to post a pic of Viv as Cleo with no success, but if you Google Vivien Leigh Cleopatra you might find some gorgeous photos.
#12re: The Better Cleopatra
Posted: 8/29/04 at 3:44pmOh, and there is a film clip of Joan Collins' screen test for Cleopatra on the 2nd disc of the two disc set.
#13re: The Better Cleopatra
Posted: 8/29/04 at 4:07pmI go with Viv on this one.
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