This week’s mystery movie was the 1946 Eagle Lion picture Caesar and Cleopatra, with Vivien Leigh, Claude Rains, Stewart Granger, Flora Robson, Francis Sullivan, Basil Sydney, Cecil Parker, Ernest Thesiger, Michael Rennie, Antony Eustrel, Robert Adams, Raymond Lovell, Olga Edwardes, Stanley Holloway, Esme Percy, Allan Wheatley and Leo Genn.
Scenario and dialogue by Bernard Shaw.
General manager of production Tom White.
Script editor Marjorie Deans.
Decor and costumes by Oliver Messel.
Art direction by John Bryan.
Photography by F.A. Young, Robert Krasker, Jack Hildyard and Jack Cardiff.
Operator Ted Scaife.
Sound by John Dennis.
Dubbing by Desmond Dew.
Edited by Frederick Wilson.
Matt shots by Percy Day.
Chief of color control department Natalie Kalmus.
Assistant Joan Bridge.
A Gabriel Pascal production.
Caesar and Cleopatra is available in a three-disc Criterion Collection set from Critics’ Choice Video.
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I picked Caesar and Cleopatra by going through the trades, and I must say it was a challenge to find images that weren’t plastered all over the Internet. I had to scrap my original choice for Monday, Robert Adams, because it was impossible to find an image of him that didn’t come up in a Google reverse image search.
Robert Adams in Caesar and Cleopatra.
I’m going to guess that Bosley Crowther liked the film.
And indeed he did (The New York Times, Sept. 6, 1946):
Gabriel Pascal, the fearless producer who has already proved his competence with Pygmalion and Major Barbara to put the plays of G.B. Shaw on the screen, has now ventured bolder than ever and has turned his accomplished hand to one of Shaw’s more demanding costume dramas, Caesar and Cleopatra. He has done it — or rather, he did it — in England with a million odd pounds of J. Arthur Rank’s investment money and with Claude Rains and Vivien Leigh as stars. Pictorially, the effort, now revealed here upon the Astor’s screen, is worthy of the extravagance and is certainly worth of a filmgoer’s regard.
For Monday, we have a mystery guest.
Update: This is Flora Robson.
For Tuesday, we have a mysterious fellow.
Update: This is Francis L. Sullivan.
Brain Trust roll call: Suzanne A. Stone (mysterious movie, Monday’s mystery guest and mysterious cast, plus enigmatic playwright), Howard Mandelbaum (mystery movie and Monday’s mystery priestess), Celluloid Couture (mystery movie and Monday’s mysterious priestess), Bob Hansen (mystery movie and Monday’s mystery guest), Anne Papineau (mystery movie and Monday’s mystery woman), Mary Mallory (mystery movie and Monday’s woman of mystery), Tim Doherty (Monday’s mysterious priestess), B.J. Merholz (mystery movie and Monday’s enigmatic guest), Mike Hawks (mystery movie and Monday’s mystery woman), Sheila (mystery movie and Monday’s priestess of enigmas), Robert Morrissey (mystery movie and Monday’s mystery woman, plus a previous relevant appearance), Norman Desmond (Monday’s mysterious priestess), Jenny M. (mystery movie and Monday’s woman of mystery), Blackwing Jenny (mysterious movie, Monday’s enigmatic priestess and enigmatic playwright), Benito (mystery movie and mysterious guest, plus another role), Barb (mysterious movie and Monday’s mystery woman) and Megan and Thom (mystery movie and Monday’s guest of mystery).
For “Hm Wednesday,” we have a mysterious person.
Update: This is Michael Rennie.
Brain Trust roll call: Mary Mallory (Tuesday’s mysterious fellow and mysterious companions), Blackwing Jenny (Tuesday’s mysterious fellow), Sylvia E. (mystery movie and both mystery guests, and enigmatic playwright), Anne Papineau (Tuesday’s mysterious fellow), Howard Mandelbaum (Tuesday’s man of mystery), Funky PhD. (mystery movie and Tuesday’s enigmatic guest), Jenny M. (Tuesday’s mystery fellow), Mike Hawks (Tuesday’s mysterious guest), Eve (mystery movie and both mystery guests), Chrisbo (Tuesday’s mystery fellow) and L.C. (mystery movie and mysterious cast).
For “Aha Thursday,” we have a mysterious fellow. His companion has been cropped out because of insufficient mysteriousness and will appear Friday.
For Friday, we add a mysterious woman.
Update: This is Vivien Leigh and Stewart Granger.
Brain Trust roll call: Mary Mallory (Wednesday’s mysterious centurion), Blackwing Jenny (Wednesday’s mysterious centurion), Greg (mystery movie and all mystery guests), Anne Papineau (Wednesday’s mysterious centurion), Howard Mandelbaum (Wednesday’s mysterious centurion), Sylvia E. (Wednesday’s mysterious centurion), Mike Hawks (Wednesday’s mysterious centurion) and Megan and Thom (Wednesday’s mysterious centurion).
And for Friday, we have this noble mystery guest!
Update: This is Claude Rains.
Brain Trust roll call: Mary Mallory (Thursday’s mysterious fellow), Blackwing Jenny (Thursday’s mystery guest), Howard Mandelbaum (Thursday’s mystery guest), Anne Papineau (Thursday’s mystery guest), Mike Hawks (Thursday’s mysterious fellow), Roget-L.A. mystery movie and all mystery guests) and Sylvia E. (Thursday’s mysterious fellow).
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Flora Robson in 1945’s “Caesar and Cleopatra”, with Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains. Flora is the servant to Cleo…based on the GB Shaw play.
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Flora Robson in CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA (1945).
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Flora Robson in “Caesar and Cleopatra”
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Flora Robson on Monday. I think the movie is Caesar and Cleopatra from 1945.
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Flora Robson in “Caesar and Cleopatra”
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CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA and Flora Robson.
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Flora Robson?
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Flora Robson in Caesar and Cleopatra.
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Flora Robson in CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA.
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Flora Robson, ‘Caesar and Cleopatra’?
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Lol….This is something the youngsters would condemn almost reflexively today: Flora Robson in blackface as Ftatateeta in 1945’s Caesar and Cleopatra. She had been in blackface two years previously in Saratoga Trunk.
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Flora Robson?
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Flora Robson in Caesar and Cleopatra (1945).
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Ahhh…Flora Robson in GBS & Pascal’s “Caesar and Cleopatra”!
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Flora Robson as “Ftatateeta” in CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA 1945. She played Queen Elizabeth elsewhere
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Is that Flora Robson from the movie Caesar and Cleopatra perhaps?
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Our guest is Flora Robson in Caesar and Cleopatra.
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Francis L. Sullivan with Anthony Eustrel and Ernest Thesiger behind him. Sullivan starred with Leigh in 21 Days Together, and it was her birthday Sunday. My bit of extraneous info that has nothing to do with the movie like everyone else.
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Dear old Francis L. Sullivan!
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Caesar and Cleopatra 1945
Screenplay – George Bernard Shaw
I’m late to the party.
Monday – Flora Robson
Tuesday – Francis L. Sullivan
Boy this film is a walking poster to young actors who think they’ll “never make it”. A who’s who of youthful, “yet to be” leading women and men, with some elders thrown in, too.
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Francis L. Sullivan
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Francis L. Sullivan
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Tuesday’s mysterious man is Francis L. Sullivan, which makes this movie Caesar and Cleopatra.
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Francis L. Sullivan
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Francis L. Sullivan.
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Flora Robson and Francis L. Sullivan in the 1945 Caesar and Cleopatra, which also featured Kay Kendall and her sister Kim as extras!
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Is that Francis L. Sullivan in While Nero Fiddled?
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Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) w/Claude Rains, Vivian Leigh, Flora Robson, Stewart Granger, Francis L. Sullivan, Basil Sydney, Cecil Parker
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Michael Rennie.
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Centurion: Michael Rennie of the chiseled cheekbones.
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I think, as a matter of fact, I’m pretty sure that the mean looking babe on Monday is Flora Robson. Followed on Tuesday by Francis L. Sullivan. The clincher was Wednesday’s appearance of Michael Rennie. The movie should be 1945’s “Caesar and Cleopatra”.
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On Wednesday, Michael Rennie “was ill the day the earth stood still.”
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Michael Rennie
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Wednesday – Michael Rennie
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Michael Rennie.
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Today’s guest is Michael Rennie, wearing a small punch bowl or a spittoon.
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Stewart Granger looking at Vivien Leigh.
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Hail, Stewart! Stewart Granger as a Shavian greek.
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Stewart Granger
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Stewart Granger
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Stewart Granger.
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Monday: Flora Robson | Tuesday: Francis L. Sullivan | Wednesday: Michael Rennie | Thursday: Stewart Granger | Friday: Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains | Mystery Movie: Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
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Thursday – Stewart Granger
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I had said that VL was with him last night. She is the person with him today, and so is Claude Rains.
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Vivien Leigh; Claude Rains.
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Vivian Leigh w/ Granger
Claude Rains
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Vivien Leigh, Stewart Granger and Claude Rains.
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It’s the Vivling and Claude Rains
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From Friday: Claude Rains and “Caesar and Cleopatra”.
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