Word: cleopatras
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...Antony and Cleopatra, but Caesar and Cleopatra has just joined the repertory of the American Shakespeare Festival--which thus, for the first time in its history, has staged a non-Shakespearean work (of this departure more anon...
...Cleopatra (20th Century-Fox) has plenty of trumpets and tambourines, plus occasional sobs from strings and winds, but the real pleasure is reading the depth-psychology notes that Director Joe Mankiewicz has written while listening to Alex North's bullying score. Good for testing out stereo sets...
...Cleopatra. As the Serpent of the Nile, Elizabeth Taylor hisses and shows her fangs; she also shows her bangles and her bosom, but little indication that she knows what made Cleo slither. If Rex Harrison is splendid as the urbane Caesar, Richard Burton is disappointing as the befuddled Antony who confuses lust with love...
Cordell & Old Hulls. Surveying his vast sets for The Fall of the Roman Empire, vaster eight times over than the sets of Cleopatra, he suddenly becomes Cordell Bronston. "This moving picture," he says, "which covers less than two decades of history 18 centuries old, will be particularly significant and meaningful today when our greatest leaders seek to revive the Pax Romana in a disorderly world." "Bronston's simplicity and naivete are amazing," says Actor James Mason, "and he comes through it all with great success. He's like a little boy who never doubts his daydreams will come...
...Cleopatra. Every dollar of the $40 million spent on this epic-to-end-all-epics is dazzlingly apparent in the tons of gold leaf, typhoons of pink smoke, and wilderness of bosoms that assault the beholder. But the world's most expensive star. Elizabeth Taylor, plays Cleo as if she were doing a fancy-dress dream sequence from Butterfield 8. Richard Burton is all too realistic as Antony-the man who sold himself down the Nile for a sex symbol...