Caesar and Cleopatra (film)

Caesar and Cleopatra
theatrical release poster
Directed byGabriel Pascal
Written byGeorge Bernard Shaw
(play {uncredited}, scenario and dialogue)
Produced byGabriel Pascal
StarringVivien Leigh
Claude Rains
CinematographyF. A. Young F.R.P.S.
Robert Krasker
Jack Hildyard
Jack Cardiff
Edited byFrederick Wilson
Joan Warwick (uncredited)
Music byGeorges Auric
Production
company
Distributed byEagle-Lion Films (UK)
United Artists (US)
Release dates
  • 11 December 1945 (1945-12-11) (London)
  • 6 September 1946 (1946-09-06) (U.S.)
  • 16 September 1946 (1946-09-16) (UK)
Running time
128 minutes (UK)
123 minutes (US)
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
BudgetUS$5.2 million[1] or £1.3 million[2][3]
Box officeUS$2,250,000 (US rentals)[4]
815,007 admissions (France)[5]
£350,000 (US$1.4 million) (UK)[3]

Caesar and Cleopatra is a 1945 British Technicolor film directed by Gabriel Pascal and starring Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains.[6] Some scenes were directed by Brian Desmond Hurst, who took no formal credit. The picture was adapted from the play Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) by George Bernard Shaw, produced by Independent Producers and Pascal Film Productions and distributed by Eagle-Lion Distributors.

Upon release, Caesar and Cleopatra failed to earn back its colossal budget. John Bryan was nominated for an Oscar for Best Art Direction.[7]

  1. ^ Steinberg, Jay S. "Caesar and Cleopatra" (article) TCM.com
  2. ^ "The London Letter: Loan Vote Prospects" The Scotsman [Edinburgh, Scotland] 13 Dec 1945: 4.
  3. ^ a b Staff (30 October 1946) "'Cleo' $3,000,000 in the red", Variety, p.3
  4. ^ Staff (8 January 1947) "60 Top Grossers of 1946" Variety p,8
  5. ^ Box office information for Stewart Granger films in France at Box Office Story
  6. ^ "Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)". Archived from the original on 16 January 2009. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
  7. ^ "946 (19th) Art Direction (Color) Caesar and Cleopatra John Bryan"[permanent dead link]