Apr 14th
Cleopatra
Sub-Title: The Romance of a Woman and a Queen
(US 1912)
Helen Gardner Picture Players. 87m. bw. silent
A devoted slave to Queen Cleopatra agrees to die for her, but in the end helps her reach that fate herself after her meeting with Marc Antony.
First feature length film version of this subsequently much told historical romance; static and stilted, but no more than all the other later versions.
w, d: Charles L. Gaskill, from the play by Victorien Sardov.
p: Helen Gardner
s: Helen Gardner, Charles Sindelar, Mr Howard, Harry Knowles, Miss Robson
ph: Lucien Tainguy
Cleopatra
Sub-Title: The Romance of a Woman and a Queen
(US 1912)
Helen Gardner Picture Players. 87m. bw. silent
A devoted slave to Queen Cleopatra agrees to die for her, but in the end helps her reach that fate herself after her meeting with Marc Antony.
First feature length film version of this subsequently much told historical romance; static and stilted, but no more than all the other later versions.
w, d: Charles L. Gaskill, from the play by Victorien Sardov.
p: Helen Gardner
s: Helen Gardner, Charles Sindelar, Mr Howard, Harry Knowles, Miss Robson
ph: Lucien Tainguy
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