Cleopatra (1928 film) explained

Cleopatra
Director:	R. William Neill
Producer:	Herbert T. Kalmus
Screenplay:	Leon Abrams
Story:	Natalie Kalmus
Starring:	Dorothy Revier Robert Ellis Serge Temoff Will Walling Ben Hendricks Jr. Evelyn Selbie
Cinematography:	George Cave
Editing:	Aubrey Scotto
Studio:	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Technicolor Corporation
Distributor:	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Runtime:	20 minutes
Country:	United States
Language:	Silent 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.

Cast

• Dorothy Revier as Cleopatra
• Robert Ellis as Marc Antony
  • Serge Temoff Will Walling
• Ben Hendricks Jr. as Octavius Caesar
• Evelyn Selbie as Charmian

Production

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

Preservation Status

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

Notes and References

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