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