The most famous Cleopatra film was released in 1963 and starred Elizabeth Taylor. The film was hugely expensive for the time — Taylor was reportedly the first actress to get paid $1 million for ...

In 1962, Elizabeth was awarded a record-setting contract of $1 million for Cleopatra; a film that also saw her make the Guinness World Record for the most amount of costume changes in a movie (65 ...

The first-century B.C. Cleopatra immortalized by Plutarch, Shakespeare and Elizabeth Taylor was merely the ... up again and again in different costumes.” I enjoyed something like this loopy ...