Movie Documentary
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Documentary about the making of 20th Century Fox's 1963 film "Cleopatra," then the most expensive film of all time.
Keith Baxter Stephen Boyd Jack Brodsky David Brown Richard Burton Joan Collins Hume Cronyn Robert Culp John DeCuir C.O. Erickson Peter Finch Eddie Fisher Rex Harrison Martin Landau Rouben Mamoulian Christopher Mankiewicz Rosemary Mankiewicz Tom Mankiewicz Roddy McDowall Bill Mechanic Marilyn Monroe Maureen O'Hara Debbie Reynolds Rino Romano Elizabeth Taylor Robert Wagner Raquel Welch Joanne Woodward Darryl F. Zanuck Richard D. Zanuck
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