Cleopatra (1928 film)

Cleopatra
Cleopatra
Directed by	R. William Neill
Written by	Natalie Kalmus
Screenplay by	Leon Abrams
Story by	Natalie Kalmus
Produced by	Herbert T. Kalmus
Starring	Dorothy Revier; Robert Ellis; Serge Temoff; Will Walling; Ben Hendricks Jr.; Evelyn Selbie
Cinematography	George Cave
Edited by	Aubrey Scotto
Production; companies	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; Technicolor Corporation
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	June 13, 1928;
Running time	20 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Silent; English Intertitles
Budget	$20,881.37

Cleopatra is a 1928 MGM silent fictionalized film, shot in two-color Technicolor. It was the sixth short produced as part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Great Events" series.

Plot summary[edit]

Cast[edit]

Dorothy Revier as Cleopatra
Robert Ellis as Marc Antony
Serge Temoff
Will Walling
Ben Hendricks Jr. as Octavius Caesar
Evelyn Selbie as Charmian

Production[edit]

The film was shot at the Tec-Art Studio in Hollywood.^[2]

Preservation Status[edit]

A complete print of this film was preserved in 1993 by Cinema Arts Laboratory was is held by the George Eastman House.^[3]

References[edit]

^ Layton, James and David Pierce. The Dawn of Technicolor: 1915-1935. George Eastman House, 2015, p. 335.
^ Slide, Anthony. "The 'Great Events' Series". Silent Topics: Essays on Undocumented Areas of Silent Film. Scarecrow Press, 2005, p. 38.
^ Layton and Pierce 335

External links[edit]

Cleopatra at IMDb

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[1] Layton, James and David Pierce. The Dawn of Technicolor: 1915-1935. George Eastman House, 2015, p. 335.

[2] Slide, Anthony. "The 'Great Events' Series". Silent Topics: Essays on Undocumented Areas of Silent Film. Scarecrow Press, 2005, p. 38.

[3] Layton and Pierce 335

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