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jodymarie aimee

(3,975 posts)
Sun Feb 17, 2019, 07:59 PM Feb 2019

I saw Cleopatra for the first time yesterday I was 11 when it came out and we were way too Catholic

When we were growing up we were only allowed to see movies the Times Review, the Catholic newspaper allowed..that narrowed things down....Plus we had no $$...but the first few movies were Ben Hur, St. Francis of Assisi...so I always loved those Egyptian movies...Cleopatra was way too randy for us of course...the Pope even wanted to excommunicate Liz Taylor for having an affair with Burton..and I was only 11....so I never saw the entire movie until yesterday.

This is 9 mins of the scene where Cleopatra enters Rome...with Ceasar's son...It is magnificent..Man, they sure knew how to make movies....

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I saw Cleopatra for the first time yesterday I was 11 when it came out and we were way too Catholic (Original Post) jodymarie aimee Feb 2019 OP
Wasn't it the most expensive movie ever made at that time. CatMor Feb 2019 #1
yes it was jodymarie aimee Feb 2019 #2
That had to be quite a payload. CatMor Feb 2019 #4
I saw it in our small town theatre and did think the magnificent scenery was wonderful, but had dameatball Feb 2019 #3
Liz Taylor was Catholic? rurallib Feb 2019 #5
she was almost Catholic jodymarie aimee Feb 2019 #6
yeah I knew about Bing and his beatings rurallib Feb 2019 #7
he also drove their mom, Dixie to the bottle jodymarie aimee Feb 2019 #8
Yeah - had a nun in 7th grade who just obsessed on Bing rurallib Feb 2019 #9
 

jodymarie aimee

(3,975 posts)
2. yes it was
Sun Feb 17, 2019, 08:16 PM
Feb 2019

and remember these are all real humans....no hi tech jazz...so every single one had to be paid.

dameatball

(7,555 posts)
3. I saw it in our small town theatre and did think the magnificent scenery was wonderful, but had
Sun Feb 17, 2019, 08:19 PM
Feb 2019

several other preferences in those years. James Bond, Pink Panther, Magnificent Seven, Great Escape, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad. Mad World, Ben-Hur…….although many of these were not exactly the same year. I think what ruined Cleopatra for me was the constant Richard/Liz crap. It over shadowed the film.


I do remember it was possibly the most expensive film made up until that time. I suppose it made some money, not sure how much.


rurallib

(63,049 posts)
5. Liz Taylor was Catholic?
Sun Feb 17, 2019, 09:28 PM
Feb 2019

I was raised catholic and the nuns would always bring it up when some famous person was catholic. Liz Taylor was never mentioned. Bing Crosby sure was - a lot.

 

jodymarie aimee

(3,975 posts)
6. she was almost Catholic
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 09:05 AM
Feb 2019

her first marriage to Nicky Hilton was in Cath Church...but her Dad Francis refused to have a Cath daughter...and she remained Protestant..so she was not excommunicated.....they provoked the Catholic Church by cheating on their spouses when in Rome shooting “Cleopatra.” “Erotic vagrancy,” the church called it...it was a big scandal and the Catholics went nuts...nobody was to see the film.

Loretta Young was Cath...my Nana bragged on that...that was why when Clark Gable knocked her up, she pretended to adopt her daughter Judy Lewis.....and good old Bing used to beat those boys....the first batch that is...

rurallib

(63,049 posts)
9. Yeah - had a nun in 7th grade who just obsessed on Bing
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 12:23 PM
Feb 2019

and what happened to his first marriage - really strange I thought at the time - of course Bing was totally innocent in her eyes.

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