File:Cleopatra (1917) fragment - J. Gordon Edwards.webm

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English: Surviving footage of The Vamp, Theda Bara, from Cleopatra. The film is considered lost as no known complete negatives or prints of it survive. Check your basements, attics, and sheds!

The movie was based on H. Rider Haggard's novel and the plays by Émile Moreau, Victorien Sardou, and William Shakespeare. Theda Bara starred in the title role, Fritz Leiber, Sr. as Julius Caesar, and Thurston Hall played Mark Antony.

After the Hays Code was implemented in Hollywood, Cleopatra was judged too obscene to be shown. The last two prints known to exist were destroyed in fires at the Fox studios in 1937 (along with the majority of Bara's other films for Fox) and at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

The film contains the largest number of costume changes by one performer (50) in any silent film. Coincidentally, the largest number of costume changes by a single performer in any film was Elizabeth Taylor 's 65 in Cleopatra .

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Source YouTube: Lost Film segment - "Cleopatra" (1917) - Theda Bara (lost film) – View/save archived versions on archive.org and archive.today
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J. Gordon Edwards  (1867–1925)  wikidata:Q2709694
 
J. Gordon Edwards
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James Gordon Edwards
Description English-American film director, film producer, screenwriter and writer
Date of birth/death 24 June 1867 Edit this at Wikidata 31 December 1925 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Montreal New York City
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Media of the day This file was selected as the media of the day for 08 October 2013. It was captioned as follows:
English: Fragment of the 1917 American silent film Cleopatra
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English: Fragment of the 1917 American silent film Cleopatra
中文(简体):1917年美国电影《克利奥帕特拉》片段

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The author died in 1925, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 95 years or fewer.


This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

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current21:45, 5 December 202216 s, 1,440 × 1,080 (5 MB)Mayimbú (talk | contribs)Cropping original aspect ratio. Removing opening introduction.
20:11, 21 May 202120 s, 1,920 × 1,080 (2.46 MB)Racconish (talk | contribs)
21:10, 8 October 201315 s, 960 × 720 (2.11 MB)YtUPt (talk | contribs)Imported from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9D8p1mI13A

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