The 1963 film Cleopatra was a trailblazing project for a number of reasons. Elizabeth Taylor, who was already a well-established film star, snagged the lead role with ease as the movie’s producer, ...

It's been 50 years since the epic British-American-Swiss production Cleopatra, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, took the cinema world by storm. Cleopatra ...

When Ben Mankiewicz began work on the sixth season of The Plot Thickens, TCM 's long-form podcast, he knew this one would be unlike the seasons preceding it in that the story was personal. The season ...

The Hollywood epic began filming almost three years before it was released with a budget of $5 million. But by the time of its release in 1963, Cleopatra’s costs had ballooned to $44 million (an earth ...

To understand the scale of the budgetary and box-office double-whammy that did for Joseph L Mankiewicz's elephantine 1963 version of Cleopatra, it's worth noting that of the 50 most expensive movies ...

Cleopatra situates itself in the same relationship to Hollywood as the Warhol/Morrisey films of the period. It corresponds to Joseph Mankiewicz's 1963 Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard ...