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Cleopatra (1928 film)

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Cleopatra
Directed byR. William Neill
Written byNatalie Kalmus
Screenplay byLeon Abrams
Story byNatalie Kalmus
Produced byHerbert T. Kalmus
StarringDorothy Revier
Robert Ellis
Serge Temoff
Will Walling
Ben Hendricks Jr.
Evelyn Selbie
CinematographyGeorge Cave
Edited byAubrey Scotto
Production
companies
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • June 13, 1928 (1928-06-13)
Running time
20 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent
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

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Cast

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Production

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

Preservation Status

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

References

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  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
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