Cleopatra and the Undoing of Hollywood (eBook)

How One Film Almost Sunk the Studios

Patrick Humphries (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
240 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-1-80399-396-6 (ISBN)

Infos

There had been stars before. There had been films prior to Cleopatra. But in all the cynical, greedy, magical, histrionic history of the movies, there had never been a combination like that of Elizabeth Taylor and Cleopatra.
Other films may have taken more money, won more awards or attracted better reviews, but none have come close to the legend that is Cleopatra.
What began in 1958 as a remake of the 1917 Theda Bara film, which starred Joan Collins and was projected to cost $2 million, would open five years later, having cost nearly twenty times as much. The budget had skyrocketed enormously as the production went through extravagant sets in two different countries, two directors and six leading men – and this was on top of Elizabeth Taylor's $1 million fee.
But it was the off-screen romance between the two on-screen leads that really cemented Cleopatra's place in cinema history. Within weeks of Richard Burton's arrival in Italy, he and Taylor embarked on a tumultuous and passionate love affair that kept the Cuban Missile Crisis off the front pages and was denounced by the Vatican. Cleopatra and the Undoing of Hollywood is a story of lust, excess and hubris – and how one film nearly brought Hollywood to its knees.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.6.2023
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 1963 • 20th Century Fox • 60s Culture • 60s films • 60s movies • cinema history • Cleopatra • cleopatra film • cleopatra hollywood • cleopatra movie • Cultural History • Elizabeth Taylor • Film History • Golden age of Hollywood • History of Cinema • History of Hollywood • Hollywood Studio System • How One Film Almost Sunk the Studios • Joan Collins • most expensive film • Paparazzi • Richard Burton • studio politics • Swinging Sixties • Twentieth Century Fox
• ISBN-10: 1-80399-396-0 / 1803993960
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80399-396-6 / 9781803993966