Scandalous Women on Film: Cleopatra (1963)
Cleopatra (1963) Twentieth Century Fox Written and directed by Joseph Mankiewicz Produced by Walter Wanger Cast Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra Richard Burton as Marc Antony Rex Harrison as Julius Caesar Carroll O'Connor as Servilius Casca Roddy McDowall as Octavian Martin Landau as Rufio Hume Cronyn as Sosigenes Andrew Keir as Agrippa Kenneth Haigh as Brutus George Cole as Flavius Pamela Brown as the High Priestess Cesare Danova as Apollodorus Francesca Annis as Eiras Richard O'Sullivan as Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII Gregoire Aslan as Pothinus Martin Benson as Ramos My thoughts: Pretty everyone, even if they have no taste for celebrity gossip, knows the backstory to the filming of Cleopatra. It's the film that not only took two years to make, and almost bankrupted the studio, but it is also the film that ended two marriages, and gave the world the love story of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton or Le Scandale as it was known at the time. By th...