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Cleopatra is a 1963 American epic historical drama film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, with a screenplay adapted by Mankiewicz, Ranald MacDougall and Sidney Buchman from the 1957 book The Life and Times of Cleopatra by Carlo Maria Franzero, and from histories by Plutarch, Suetonius, and Appian.
Cleopatra: Original Soundtrack Album is the soundtrack from the film of the same name, released by 20th Century Fox Records in 1963. The music of Cleopatra was composed and conducted by Alex North, and was recorded and produced in 1963. It has been released several times, first as an original vinyl album, in 1963.
Cleopatra became the biggest box-office success of 1963 in the United States; the film grossed $15.7 million at the box office (equivalent to $156 million in 2023). [8]: 56–57 Regardless, it took several years for the film to earn back its production costs, which drove Fox near to bankruptcy. The studio publicly blamed Taylor for the ...
The year 1963 in film involved some significant events, including the big-budget epic Cleopatra and two films with all-star casts, How the West Was Won and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Top-grossing films (U.S.)
United Artists. 6 Academy Award nominations with 1 win; top-grossing film of 1963 Jason and the Argonauts: Don Chaffey: Todd Armstrong, Nancy Kovack, Honor Blackman: Fantasy: Columbia: Johnny Cool: William Asher: Henry Silva, Elizabeth Montgomery, Jim Backus: Crime: United Artists: Kings of the Sun: J. Lee Thompson: Yul Brynner, George Chakiris ...
Theda Bara in Cleopatra (1917) Claudette Colbert in Cleopatra (1934) Vivien Leigh in Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra (1963) The headdress for Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra (1963). This film's costume design garnered an Oscar for Irene Sharaff. Cléopâtre (1899) (Jeanne d'Alcy) Antony and Cleopatra (1908) (Florence ...
Historical drama films continued to include epic films, in the style of Ben-Hur from 1959, with Spartacus (1960) and Cleopatra (1963), but also evolving with 20th-century settings, such as The Guns of Navarone (1961), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), and Doctor Zhivago (1965).
Cleopatra (1839), an East India Company paddle frigate built in 1839 and sunk by a tropical cyclone in 1847; Cleopatra (cylinder ship), a vessel constructed to convey Cleopatra's Needle from Alexandria to London in 1877; SS Mohegan, originally named Cleopatra, a mixed passenger liner and animal carrier which sank in 1898