As soon as he has contracted for the services of two outstanding male stars to play Julius Caesar and Marc Antony opposite Elizabeth Taylor (above), producer Walter Wanger will be ready to start film- ing of “Cleopatra” in CinemaScope with De Luxe Color. This is not only the most important production that veteran producer has undertaken to film, but also one of the major ventures of this company. Actually, Wanger has been making preparations for “Cleopatra” for more than a year. Elizabeth Taylor, whose latest personal triumph is in “Suddenly Last Summer”, will play the title role in “Cleopatra”, an assignment perfectly tailored to her talents and beauty. Wanger’s “Cleopatra” will not be the story of a strumpet as presented in Shakespeare’s “Anthony And Cleopatra”, nor as the naive and silly teen- ager she is characterized in George Bernard Shaw’s play. This version dramatizes the true Cleopatra, based on a bibliography of the writings of Plutarch, Suetonius, Cicero and other new sources.
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