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Encased in a wheel chair, the egomaniacal, asp-tongued celebrity commandeers the household, forces his hosts to use only the upstairs, runs up a $784 phone bill conversing with all points of the compass, tries to smash his secretary's (Bette Davis) love affair, persuades his hosts' children to run away from home...
...Kansas City Journal-Post related in newsworthy detail how the poison thickened the blood and stopped seepage through the ruptured vessels. The Star merely stated that Donald had been cured by injections of "venom," left it up to readers to guess whether the venom came from Cleopatra's asp or a chemist's test tube...
...twelve children, chose Fuad to be sultan and in 1922 made him King of Egypt, Sovereign of Nubia, the Sudan, Kordofan and Darfur. Thus the great-great-grandson of an Albanian tobacco peddler, the great Mohammed Ali, became the first sovereign in Egypt since Cleopatra died of an asp bite...
...asp that bites Claudette Colbert in this DeMille production is a real one. Studio officials expressed surprise when the director deviated so far from realism as to permit the extraction of its poison sac before it struck...
...speared and ground to death under an enormous spiked wheel, Antony is left all alone. He stabs himself, lives long enough to quote to Cleopatra Shakespeare's "I am dying, Egypt, dying!" Cleopatra puts on her best clothes and calls for a basket, out of which she takes an asp...