Pinewood "Cleopatra" Trivette's Tribute to Taylor

I dedicate this video to Mr. Alan Trivette whose photos used in this video are from the extraordinary collection of Alan Trivette's "Tribute to Taylor". http://www.taylortribute.com/ElizabethTaylorCleopatraIntro.htm . In 1960 Cleopatra was to be filmed at Pinewood Studios in England. 10min of footage filmed, many costume tests, and 3 million dollars later. The filmed footage was scrapped, due to a bad desicion of studio cheif, to film there weather conditions are not like Egypt. Hello!!! This video does not mean to infringe on any copyright laws. Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."

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• Elizabeth Taylor
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• Walter Wanger
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• Mamoulian

[pforgan]

never understood why either

[marcco44]

wonderful!! a lot of these costumes i have never seen.

the costume designer for the english production here was oliver messel.

when the production was moved to italy, after taylor's illness, hollywood designer irene sharaff was brought in and re-designed all of taylor's costumes.

what you can see here is--

a) messel had most of the costumes finished, there are so many here.

b)sharaff re-used a lot of the headresses that messel had designed.

i have never understood why messel was replaced.

[etrax2000]

I have seen some of the film where she is wearing these costumes for screen tests and there is one where she apears almost nude. with see through robe and black.... well... lets just call them underpants , but barely.

[etrax2000]

you can see the strain that Liz had to endure when you compare the early shots with the final film, she was truly stunning in the first version, but appears a bit diminished in the final film that we know today/

[MirandaLantern]

pforgan, thank you for making this beautiful video! So many wonderful photos, so many costumes never seen in the film, so many scenes to restore! Thanks also to Alan Trivette for his amazing website with incredible photos along, with a section devoted to the integrity of the *original* script to keep the idea of restoration alive. The music is wonderful to hear along with these stunning photos. I, personally, can never get enough of this movie. It's my absolute favorite film of all time.

[MGMstar]

Incredible costumes and Elizabeth looks so stunning in them. Thank for making this.