Cleopatra - crew, film crew
The entire team, the film crew of the film "Cleopatra"
Cleopatra (1934)
Timing:
1:40 (100 min)
6.022/10
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6.229/10
756
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6.8/10
5100
5100
Film crew
Director
Producer
Casting
Billy Gordon
Casting
Editor
Art Direction
Roland Anderson
Art Direction
Costume Design
Vicky Williams
Costume Design
Original Music Composer
Rudolph G. Kopp
Original Music Composer
Orchestrator
Milan Roder
Orchestrator
Max Reese
Orchestrator
Director of Photography
Camera Operator
Cooper Smith
Camera Operator
Sound Effects Editor
Still Photographer
Ray Jones
Still Photographer
Screenplay
Waldemar Young
Screenplay
Vincent Lawrence
Screenplay
Props
Special Effects
Barney Wolff
Special Effects
Sculptor
Ralph Jester
Sculptor
Assistant Director
David MacDonald
Assistant Director
Cullen Tate
Assistant Director
Researcher
Jeanie Macpherson
Researcher
Gladys Percey
Researcher
Sound Engineer
Harry Lindgren
Sound Engineer
Stand In
Gladys Jeans
Stand In
Adaptation
Bartlett Cormack
Adaptation
Sound Director
Assistant Camera
Guy Roe
Assistant Camera
Cliff Shirpser
Assistant Camera
Robert Rhea
Assistant Camera
Music Director
Nat W. Finston
Music Director
Presenter
Adolph Zukor
Presenter
What's left behind the scenes
- British actor Henry Wilcoxon made his American film debut in this movie.
- Italian audiences received the film very poorly, and Italian film critics called it a "parody and farce".
- When Cecil B. DeMille (1881-1959) first began discussing the role of Cleopatra with actress Claudette Colbert (1903-1996), she was very worried about the scene with the snake, as she was fundamentally afraid of reptiles. On the day the scene was scheduled to be filmed, DeMille ordered the largest snakes available from the Los Angeles Zoo and approached the prop throne with one of them, where the actress was seated in the guise of Cleopatra. She screamed in fear and begged the director not to come any closer with the snake. Then DeMille took out a smaller snake and asked the actress if she would agree to work with it, to which she immediately agreed.
- Problems with the costumes prepared for filming arose almost every day. Claudette Colbert repeatedly felt that a particular dress didn't fit quite right, and then the dress had to be altered.
- During pre-production, Cecil DeMille wanted to revisit the 1917 film of the same name directed by J. Gordon Edwards (1867-1925) and starring Theda Bara (1885-1955) as Cleopatra. No copies of the film could be found in Los Angeles, so he had to request one from the New York office of 20th Century Fox. After watching the film, DeMille sent it back. On July 9, 1937, a fire in the archives destroyed almost all the films stored there, presumably including the original "Cleopatra" from 1917 along with the others. So DeMille's viewing on February 15, 1934, was most likely the last time anyone ever saw that film.
- In 1934, the so-called Hays Code (the national standard of moral censorship in American film production) was already in full effect, and Cecil B. DeMille couldn't resist the temptation to demonstrate his attitude towards it (albeit while staying within its limits). "Cleopatra" begins with a scene featuring a slave, clearly nude, but lit from angles designed to make any objections impossible. The slave holds a censer in both hands, and the film's title appears on the screen.
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