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)

Findings (1)

  • 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.
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