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CLEOPATRA
Original shooting script heavily annotated with dialogue changes, insertions, deletions, scene changes, instructions such as "remove from 35mm version for general release," and "in 70mm version", and signed ("Elizabeth Taylor") on the title page. This was not Ms. Taylor's script, rather it bears type on the title page, "From: Joseph L. Mankiewicz September 18, 1961", and has a note attachment indicating the script contains cutting notes. And that it does. This is a fascinating vision of a monster epic in progress. The script was probably sent from Mankiewicz to one of the editors, and was the editor's working copy.
Approximately 180 pages, quarto, bound in a black 3-ring binder, with abundant changes in red and black marker, also in pencil, with other alterations appearing in facsimile from earlier versions. Clipped to page 157, for instance, is a holograph note which reads, "This scene 225 was moved up in picture to follow Cleo & son come down Sphinx and wink at Caesar's lap dissolve to Caesar teaching son." Released in 1963, "Cleopatra" chronicles the love affair and affairs of state of Antony and Cleopatra. Burton and Taylor brought their tempestous off-screen relationship into technicolor and helped make the picture the most expensive film of its time. Originally running over 4 hours before being cut to an economical 222 minutes, the picture survived numerous starts and stops, and the near bankruptcy of Fox, to do big box office and garner 9 Academy Award nominations. This unique working script signed by Elizabeth Taylor provides a spectacular glimpse into the making of one of the most difficult and epic films of all time. Cleopatra
Original shooting script heavily annotated with dialogue changes, insertions, deletions, scene changes, instructions such as "remove from 35mm version for general release," and "in 70mm version", and signed ("Elizabeth Taylor") on the title page. This was not Ms. Taylor's script, rather it bears type on the title page, "From: Joseph L. Mankiewicz September 18, 1961", and has a note attachment indicating the script contains cutting notes. And that it does. This is a fascinating vision of a monster epic in progress. The script was probably sent from Mankiewicz to one of the editors, and was the editor's working copy.
Approximately 180 pages, quarto, bound in a black 3-ring binder, with abundant changes in red and black marker, also in pencil, with other alterations appearing in facsimile from earlier versions. Clipped to page 157, for instance, is a holograph note which reads, "This scene 225 was moved up in picture to follow Cleo & son come down Sphinx and wink at Caesar's lap dissolve to Caesar teaching son." Released in 1963, "Cleopatra" chronicles the love affair and affairs of state of Antony and Cleopatra. Burton and Taylor brought their tempestous off-screen relationship into technicolor and helped make the picture the most expensive film of its time. Originally running over 4 hours before being cut to an economical 222 minutes, the picture survived numerous starts and stops, and the near bankruptcy of Fox, to do big box office and garner 9 Academy Award nominations. This unique working script signed by Elizabeth Taylor provides a spectacular glimpse into the making of one of the most difficult and epic films of all time. Cleopatra