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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Humphries, Patrick.     Subjects     Cleopatra (Motion picture : 1963)     Epic films -- History and criticism.     Motion picture industry -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century.     Motion picture industry -- Economic aspects -- California -- Los Angeles -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Humphries, Patrick.       by title:      Cleopatra and the un...       by call number:      791.4372 C628h     Search the Web     Humphries, Patrick.     Cleopatra (Motion picture : 1963)     Epic films -- History and criticism.     Motion picture industry -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century.     Motion picture industry -- Economic aspects -- California -- Los Angeles -- History.       MARC Display

Cleopatra and the undoing of Hollywood : how one film almost sunk the studios / Patrick Humphries. by Humphries, Patrick. The History Press Limited, 2023. Call #: 791.4372 C628h Subjects Cleopatra (Motion picture : 1963)   Epic films -- History and criticism.   Motion picture industry -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century.   Motion picture industry -- Economic aspects -- California -- Los Angeles -- History. ISBN:  9781803990187 (hc.) Description:  240 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-231) and index. Summary:  "On the 60th anniversary of the film, this book explores the extraordinary story of the making of Cleopatra, the film that changed the face of Hollywood. Cleopatra has its place as one of the most fabled films of all time. While others have won more Oscars, attracted better reviews and taken more money at the box office, the 1963 film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton stands alone in cinema legend. What began in 1958 as a remake of the 1917 Theda Bara film, which starred Joan Collins and was projected to cost $2 millioon, would open five years later, having cost nearly twenty times as much. The budget had skyrocketed enormously as the production went through extravagant sets in two different countries, two directors and six leading men--and this was on top of Elizabeth Taylor's $1 million fee. But it was the off-screen romance between the two on-screen leads that really cemented Cleopatra's place in cinema history. Within weeks of Richard Burton's arrival in Italy, he and Taylor embarked on a tumultuous and passionate love affiar that kept the Cuban Missle Crisis off the front pages and was denouced by the Vatican. Cleopatra and the undoing of Hollywood is a story of lust, excess and hubris--and how one film nearly brought Hollywood to its knees."--Publisher. "This bustling chronicle from biographer Humphries (Rolling Stones 69) details the troubled production of Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s 1963 historical epic, Cleopatra. The film started out as 20th Century Fox’s attempt to chase the smash success of MGM’s Ben-Hur, with studio executives hoping spectacle would bring audiences back to theaters amid an ongoing decline in ticket sales caused by the increasing number of household TVs in the 1950s. Recounting the many blunders made during filming, Humphries notes that Fox’s acquiescence to star Elizabeth Taylor’s demand to shoot the movie outside the U.S. “for her own tax purposes” led the studio to spend $600,000 on outdoor sets in London, only to realize the overcast skies could never pass for Egypt and production would have to relocate to Rome. Original director Rouben Mamoulian dropped out after London production wrapped, leaving Mankiewicz, his replacement, to oversee filming during the day and work on the movie’s still unfinished script at night. Further complicating matters, the affair between Taylor and costar Richard Burton, who met on set and were both married, made tabloids around the world. Humphries does a competent job of recounting the on-set drama, but his argument that Cleopatra unintentionally inaugurated the rise of independent films by showing the folly of the studio system is underdeveloped. Still, cinephiles will be entertained."--Publishers Weekly. Genre:  Film criticism. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 791.4372 C628h Core Collection - Adult Checked out Aug 17, 2024 Add Copy to MyList Cole Harbour Public Library Adult Nonfiction 791.4372 C628h Adult books Transit Request   Add Copy to MyList

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