- Egypt's queen is staged as the impulsive siren of the Nile: she takes a slave lover on a whim and discards him for ambition, then consumes Mark Antony in a romance of shared decadence, with Egypt itself reduced to opulent spectacle.
Cleopatra (1912)
film
Egyptianscatalogued, not screened by the author
- Distributor
- STATE RIGHTS
- Cast
- Helen Gardner
- Production notes
- A Helen Gardner Prod. Silent. D: Charles L. Gaskill. Notes from MPW, James Reeves Harrison, “Helen Gardner’s Idealization of Cleopatra,” (859–60)