Word: cleopatras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Queen Mary (she hates being called the Queen Mother) is as fond of the flicks as of the footlights. Her taste in films is catholic. This season she has already seen The Seventh Veil, Sailors Do Care (twice), the world premiere of Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra, and a sexy piece called The Wicked Lady, in which the earthiest dialogue had been discreetly toned down for one performance. (Next day Queen Mary alertly dispatched a lady in waiting to see the show and report what she had missed...
Hardest hit by the deal were David O. Selznick and United Artists, who up to last week seemed to have the inside track on Rank. United Artists still had distribution rights to eight Rank pictures, including Caesar and Cleopatra, one of the most expensive pictures ($5,000,000) ever made. But from now on, United World gets first pick of all Rank pictures, regardless of what other dickering Rank may do with Selznick or any other U.S. firm...
Gabriel Pascal, British movie producer, went to Egypt to film Caesar and Cleopatra, found the Sphinx unphotogenic, imported a British-made model, left it behind after the shooting-inscribed: "With the compliments of [Cinemagnate] J. Arthur Rank...
...result of a two week discussion of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" in English 23, by Winthrop Ames lecturer Harley Granville-Barker, the committee in charge of the Ames fund has announced a contest for the best student essay on any phase of the play...
...deliberate one, by way of saying thank you for U.S. support of last year's Festival, with its record-breaking attendance of 230,000. Besides playing Beatrice in the opening Much Ado About Nothing, Actress Luce will appear in Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, play Cleopatra in the birthday performance (April 23) of Antony & Cleopatra...