Cleopatra

Titolo originale: Cleopatra
Regia: Cecil B. DeMille |
Anno: 1934
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Storia Dramma Romance
Tag: epic | egypt | roman empire | cleopatra | ancient rome | pre-code | ancient egypt | alexandria egypt | 1st century bc |
Cast: Claudette Colbert | Warren William | Henry Wilcoxon | Joseph Schildkraut | Ian Keith | Gertrude Michael | C. Aubrey Smith | Irving Pichel | Arthur Hohl | Edwin Maxwell | Ian Maclaren | Eleanor Phelps | Leonard Mudie | Grace Durkin | Ferdinand Gottschalk | Claudia Dell | Harry Beresford | Jayne Regan | William Farnum | Lionel Belmore | Florence Roberts | Richard Alexander | Celia Ryland | William V. Mong | Robert Warwick | George Walsh | Kenneth Gibson | Wedgwood Nowell | Bruce Warren | Robert Seiter | Edgar Dearing | John Carradine | Wilfred Lucas | David Niven | Olga Celeste | Ynez Seabury | Victor Alexander | Jimmy Aye | Zita Baca | Joe Bacon | Lucille Battle | Leon Beaumon | Martin Beaumon | Carmelita Black | Carlyle Blackwell Jr. | Marjorie Bonner | Mildred Boyd | Everett Brown | Lenora Brown | George Bruggeman | Daisy Bufford | Edmund Burns | Horace B. Carpenter | Jack Clisby | Bobbe Cronin | Mae Digges | Elias English | Tom Farrell | Myrtle Fortune | Jerry Frank | Ruth Givens | Catherine Grayson | Lawrence Green | Bob Hall | Edgar Hampton | Neal Hart | Cleo Herndon | Shep Houghton | Patsy Hunter | Julanne Johnston | Darby Jones | Edmund Jones | Lucyle Keeling | Al Knight | Nicholai Konovaloff | Lillian Leighton | Rosalie Lincoln | Timothy J. Lonergan | Mary MacLaren | Henry Martin | Ray Martin | John Merton | Juanita Moore | Charles Morris | Jack Mulhall | Jack O'Connor | Ernestine Porter | A.J. Prather | Hal Price | Harry Raven | Hazel Reese | Gus Robinson | Louise Robinson | Mrs. Tom Rooney | John Roy | Jack Rutherford | Carl Saxe | Rube Schaffer | Phillips Smalley | Ernie Smith | Lawrence Stewart | Marjorie Timm | Alma Travers | Earl Turman | Dale Van Sickel | Paul Venerable | Colleen Ward | Bryant Washburn Jr. | Bryant Washburn | Blue Washington | Charles Washington | Henry Washington | Dorothy White | Dot Williams |

48 a.C.: Cleopatra, regina d'Egitto, vede nella sottomissione alla Roma di Giulio Cesare - suo amante - un modo per consolidare il proprio potere personale. Dopo l'assassinio di Cesare, fuggirà ad Alessandria e si legherà a Marco Antonio...

Approfondimenti

Included among the American Film Institute's 2002 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 top 1 [...] D
Costume designer Vicky Williams left the project because she was annoyed by what she perceived as a [...] D
One of three Cecil B. DeMille films starring Claudette Colbert. The others are Il segno della croce [...] D
Shot in around six weeks for $842,000, which is equivalent to over $17,500,000 in 2022. D
The most popular movie at the US box office for 1934. D
When Cecil B. DeMille was in pre-production on this film, he asked to screen the original Cleopatra [...] D
The film largely came about because Cecil B. DeMille's previous film, Quattro persone spaventate (19 [...] D
In its January 1935 issue, "The New Movie Magazine" named [Claudette Colbert]'s performance as Cleop [...] D
In 1934 the Hays Code was only just being implemented, so Cecil B. DeMille made sure to flaunt its r [...] D
First Cecil B. DeMille film to receive five Academy Award nominations. Among DeMille's films, this f [...] D
Production designer William Cameron Menzies was hired by Cecil B. DeMille to work on the montages. D
Pothinos, portrayed in an extremely virile fashion by Leonard Mudie, was, in fact, a eunuch. D
First Cecil B. DeMille film to win an Academy Award; it won for Best Cinematography (Victor Milner). D
First Cecil B. DeMille film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, a category then [...] D
In 1956, Cecil B. DeMille remembered: "[Claudette Colbert] wanted to do something different with Cle [...] D
Adolphe Menjou and John Gilbert were both offered the part of Caesar. D
The only Best Picture nominee that year to be also nominated for Best Cinematography. D
Claudette Colbert was sick from 4/10/34-4/16/34, delaying the production. D
Claudette Colbert's had an aversion to being photographed from the right side, but it is not in evid [...] D
In reality, at the time Octavian was only 11 years old, not the adult portrayed here. D
One of three Cecil B. DeMille films that depict Ancient Egypt. The others are I dieci comandamenti ( [...] D
When she first started having discussions with Cecil B. DeMille about playing the part of Cleopatra, [...] D
Paramount entered the film into the 1935 Soviet Film Festival in Moscow, Soviet Union. D
One of over 700 Paramount productions, filmed between 1929-49, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1 [...] D
One of three Cecil B. DeMille films that depict Ancient Rome. The others are Manslaughter (1922) (in [...] D
From the outset, Cecil B. DeMille was determined to bring the Cleopatra story to the masses, feeling [...] D
In a 1934 newspaper article, Cleopatra (1917) star Theda Bara said, "Although at first thought you d [...] D
Cecil B. DeMille considered Richard Dix, William Gargan, and Charles Bickford for the role of Marc A [...] D
Prologue: "In the year 48 B.C. Julius Caesar, having conquered half the world, turned his ambitious [...] D
When Julius Caesar and Cleopatra first enter Rome, heralds appear before them carrying fasces (a bun [...] D
Warren William was cast largely on the strength of his performance in The Mouthpiece (1932). D
"Daily Variety" reported that the film was badly panned by Italian critics, one of whom called it a [...] D
Claudette Colbert had a banner year in 1934, with three of her films being nominated for Academy Awa [...] D
A number of day-to-day schedule problems and delays were costume-related, in many cases because Clau [...] D
Mary Loos, niece of screenwriter Anita Loos, wrote Cecil B. DeMille, while he was casting the film, [...] D
The seduction scene in which Cleopatra (Claudette Colbert) shows Antony (Henry Wilcoxon) a scantily [...] D
According to the Los Angeles Evening Post-Record (7 May, 1934), Irving Pichel was co-starring in a P [...] D
Final film of Julanne Johnston. D
This is one of two films based on the life of Cleopatra VII to receive an Academy Award nomination f [...] D
In his autobiography, Henry Wilcoxon explains that Cecil B. DeMille was adamant that the extras play [...] D