Cleopatra (1912 film)

Cleopatra
Directed byCharles L. Gaskill
Screenplay byCharles L. Gaskill (uncredited)
Based onCléopâtre
1890 play
by Victorien Sardou
Produced byHelen Gardner
StarringHelen Gardner
CinematographyLucien Tainguy
Edited byHelen Gardner (uncredited)
Production
company
The Helen Gardner Picture Players
Distributed byUnited States Film Co.
Release date
  • November 13, 1912 (1912-11-13)
Running time
87 minutes
CountryUnited States
Budget$45,000 ($1,411,636 today)
Cleopatra

Cleopatra is a 1912 American silent historical drama film starring Helen Gardner in the title role and directed by Charles L. Gaskill, based on the 1890 play written by Victorien Sardou.[1] It was the first film to be produced by The Helen Gardner Picture Players.

Cleopatra is one of the early six-reel feature films produced in the United States.[2] Promoted as "The most beautiful motion picture ever made", it was the first to offer a feature-length depiction of Cleopatra,[3] although there had been a short film about Antony and Cleopatra two years earlier.[4]

  1. ^ Ball, Robert Hamilton (2013). Shakespeare on Silent Film: A Strange Eventful History. Routledge. p. 19. ISBN 978-1-134-98098-7.
  2. ^ Wallace Dickinson, Joy (March 25, 2001). "Early Screen Queen Turns Heads Again". orlandosentinel.com. Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2014-01-30.
  3. ^ Wallace Dickinson, Joy. "Few Remember Days When Film Queen Lived Among Us". orlandosentinel.com. p. 1. Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2014-01-30.
  4. ^ "Cléopâtre (1910)". IMDB.