This week The Tinsel Factory, we compare the life of Cleopatra to the 1963 film based on her life. We also go over the disastrous production of 1963’s Cleopatra, and what the film got right and wrong about Ancient Egypt.
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Sources:
https://www.biography.com/royalty/cleopatra-vii
https://egyptianstreets.com/2020/10/17/a-closer-look-at-hollywoods-historical-accuracy-in-the-1963-film-cleopatra/
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130976125
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/cleopatras-lost-tomb-hollywood-got-cleopatra-wrong-10-things-might-not-know-cleopatra/2912/
https://blogs.dickinson.edu/classicalstudies/2017/02/22/hollywood-and-history-cleopatra/
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/mar/31/elizabeth-taylor-cleopatra-reel-history
https://www.avclub.com/only-one-movie-in-history-has-been-both-an-unmitigated-1834847247
https://medium.com/exploring-history/ten-interesting-facts-about-cleopatra-most-people-dont-know-9e6e4efce94b
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/1998/03/elizabeth-taylor-199803?verso=true

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