Who was the original director of Cleopatra (1963)?
Rouben Mamoulian was the original director of Cleopatra (1963).
After he was fired, Alfred Hitchcock was offered the job, but refused.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz eventually took over.
Greta Garbo was Elena the temptress in The Temptress (1926).
William Finley played Winslow, the Phantom, in this rock-musical version of Phantom of the Opera. He was stalking evil record producer Swan (Paul Williams).
Lisa Kirk sang for Rosalind Russell in Gypsy (1962).
Caged Heat (1974), a low-budget epic released by New World, was director Jonathan Demme’s women-in-prison movie. Demme also wrote the screenplay.
Nine people were in the lifeboat in the movie Lifeboat (1943). The actors playing them were Heather Angel, Mary Anderson, Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Hume Cronyn, John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Canada Lee, and Walter Slezak.
Steve Reeves was born in Glasgow, Montana, in 1926. The bodybuilding champion became famous in Italian mythological epics beginning with Hercules (aka Le Fatiche di Ercole) in 1957.