Caesar and Cleopatra (film)
Caesar and Cleopatra is a 1945 British Technicolor film directed by Gabriel Pascal and starring Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains. 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.
Vivien Leigh as Cleopatra
Gabriel Pascal was a Hungarian film producer and director whose best-known films were made in the United Kingdom.
Pascal c. 1938
Interior of the Salon of the Archduchess Isabella of Austria, by Willem van Haecht, 1621 (donated to the Norton Museum of Art by Valerie Delacorte in memory of Pascal)