Antony and Cleopatra (1908 film)

1908 silent short film

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Antony and Cleopatra

Directed by	J. Stuart Blackton Charles Kent
Written by	William Shakespeare
Produced by	J. Stuart Blackton
Starring	Maurice Costello Florence Lawrence
Release date	November 3, 1908 (1908-11-03)
Running time	1 reel (approximately 10 minutes)
Country	United States
Language	English

Antony and Cleopatra is a 1908 film directed by J. Stuart Blackton and Charles Kent and starring Maurice Costello and Florence Lawrence in the title roles, based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. It was the first film to dramatize the ill-fated romance between Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII of Egypt.

Cast

Maurice Costello as Marc Antony
Florence Lawrence: Cleopatra
William V. Ranous: Octavius Caesar
Betty Kent: Cleopatra
William Phillips: Octavius Caesar
Charles Chapman: Mark Antony

References

External links

Antony and Cleopatra at IMDb

v t e Films directed by J. Stuart Blackton
Feature films	The Life of Moses (1909) The Battle Cry of Peace (1915) Whom the Gods Destroy (1916) The Judgment House (1917) Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation (1917) Life's Greatest Problem (1918) The World for Sale (1918) The Common Cause (1919) My Husband's Other Wife (1920) Passers By (1920) The House of the Tolling Bell (1920) Respectable by Proxy (1920) Man and His Woman (1920) The Blood Barrier (1920) The Forbidden Valley (1920) The Glorious Adventure (1922) A Gipsy Cavalier (1922) The Virgin Queen (1923) On the Banks of the Wabash (1923) Between Friends (1924) Let Not Man Put Asunder (1924) The Beloved Brute (1924) The Clean Heart (1924) Behold This Woman (1924) The Happy Warrior (1925) The Redeeming Sin (1925) Tides of Passion (1925) Bride of the Storm (1926) Hell-Bent for Heaven (1926) The Gilded Highway (1926) The Passionate Quest (1926) The American (1927)
Short films	The Humpty Dumpty Circus (1898) The Enchanted Drawing (1900) Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransom (1905) Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906) The Automobile Thieves (1906) The Haunted Hotel (1907) A Curious Dream (1907) Macbeth (1908) Romeo and Juliet (1908) Antony and Cleopatra (1908) Oliver Twist (1909) Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy (1909) Les Misérables (1909) A Midsummer Night's Dream (1909)
Related	Vitagraph Studios Paula Blackton (wife) Marian Constance Blackton (daughter)

v t e William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra
Stage adaptations	The False One (c.1620) All for Love (1677)
Opera	Antony and Cleopatra (1966) Antony and Cleopatra (2022)
On screen	1908 1913 1959 (TV) The Spread of the Eagle (1963; TV) 1972 1974 (TV) Zulfiqar (2016; film)
Related	List of cultural depictions of Cleopatra Cultural depictions of Augustus Salad days Asp Thomas North Cleopatra (1912) Cleopatra (1917) Roman Tragedies (2007)
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