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, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Vivien Leigh - Cleopatra
- Stewart Granger - Apollodorus
- Francis L. Sullivan - Pothinus
- Ernst Thesiger - Theodotus
- Anthony Harvey - Ptolemy
- Leo Genn - Bel Affiris
- Renée Ashershon - Iras
- Jean Simmons - Harpist
- Marie Ault - Egyptian Lady
- Charles Rolfe - Second Auxiliary Sentinel
- Charles Victor - First Porter
- Shaun Noble - A.D.C. to Achillas
- James McKechnie - Wounded Centurion
- Charles Deane - Guardsman
- Russell Thorndike - Harpist's Master
- Ronald Shiner - 2nd Porter
- Stanley Holloway - Belzanor
- Valentine Dyall - First Guardsman
- Gerhardt Kempinski - Angry Boatman
- Gerald Case - Roman Tax Officer
- Claude Rains - Julius Caesar
- Flora Robson - Ftatateeta
- Basil Sydney - Rufio
- Cecil Parker - Britannus
- Anthony Eustrel - Achillas
- Robert Adams - Nubian Slave
- Ivor Barnard - 2nd Nobleman
- Alan Wheatley - Persian
- Michael Rennie - Quayside Centurion
- Peter Bayliss - A.D.C. to Mithridates
- Felix Aylmer - 1st Nobleman
- Esme Percy - Major Domo
- Raymond Lovell - Lucius Septimus
- Anthony Holles - Vociferous Boatman
- Hylton Allen - Councillor
- Gibb McLaughlin - High Priest
- Andre Belhomme - Boatman
- John Laurie - First Auxiliary Sentinel
- John Bryning - Quayside Sentinel
- Olga Edwardes - Cleopatra's Lady Attandent
- Director(s):
- Gabriel Pascal
- Writer(s):
- Marjorie Deans, George Bernard Shaw
- Producer(s):
- Gabriel Pascal, Lord J. Arthur Rank
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