Cleopatra (1928 film)

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 (1928-06-13)
Running time	20 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Silent English Intertitles
Budget	$20,881.37[1]

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

Cast

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

Production

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

Preservation Status

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

References

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

External links

• Cleopatra at IMDb