Caesar and Cleopatra (1946)

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George Bernard Shaw adapted his own play for the screen in this blithe film version of the romance between Caesar (Claude Rains) and Cleopatra (Vivien Leigh). Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra are merely Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle cast back into ancient times with Caesar doting with admiration and burgeoning love upon Cleopatra and expostulating, "You have been growing up since the Sphinx introduced us the other night." The story is a simple one concerning Caesar instructing Cleopatra on how to act like a queen. But Cleopatra is left cold by Caesar and his blatherings. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi

Starring:: Vivien Leigh, Claude Rains, (more)

Director(s):: Gabriel Pascal

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Complete Cast of Caesar and Cleopatra

Vivien Leigh - Cleopatra
Stewart Granger - Apollodorus
Francis L. Sullivan - Pothinus
Basil Sydney - Rufio
Anthony Harvey - Ptolemy
Leo Genn - Bel Affiris
Jean Simmons - Harpist
Andre Belhomme - Boatman
Gibb McLaughlin - High Priest
Charles Victor - First Porter
Ronald Shiner - 2nd Porter
James McKechnie - Wounded Centurion
Charles Deane - Guardsman
John Bryning - Quayside Sentinel
Renée Ashershon - Iras
Charles Rolfe - Second Auxiliary Sentinel
Hylton Allen - Councillor
Esme Percy - Major Domo
Alan Wheatley - Persian
Valentine Dyall - First Guardsman

Claude Rains - Julius Caesar
Flora Robson - Ftatateeta
Ernst Thesiger - Theodotus
Cecil Parker - Britannus
Anthony Eustrel - Achillas
Olga Edwardes - Cleopatra's Lady Attandent
Gerhardt Kempinski - Angry Boatman
Anthony Holles - Vociferous Boatman
Stanley Holloway - Belzanor
Felix Aylmer - 1st Nobleman
Russell Thorndike - Harpist's Master
Raymond Lovell - Lucius Septimus
Gerald Case - Roman Tax Officer
Ivor Barnard - 2nd Nobleman
Robert Adams - Nubian Slave
Peter Bayliss - A.D.C. to Mithridates
Shaun Noble - A.D.C. to Achillas
John Laurie - First Auxiliary Sentinel
Marie Ault - Egyptian Lady
Michael Rennie - Quayside Centurion

Director(s):: Gabriel Pascal

Writer(s):: George Bernard Shaw, Marjorie Deans

Producer(s):: Lord J. Arthur Rank, Gabriel Pascal

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	SKYE M.

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A bizarre production (sadly) compromised by Shaw's equivocal script. The production cannot decide if it is a comedy . . . or a legitimate historical drama, and the (outstanding) cast is abandoned to bridge these frequent, awkward, indeed campy genre shifts, resulting in some of the most embarrassing moments I've ever seen on film. The tragedy of this movie is that the script handed to this production was Shaw's, and not a writer who had enough respect for his audience to have treated the subject with something more than vulgar frivolity.

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