This role was first played on film by Florence Lawrence in a 1908 silent version.
This role was first played on film by Florence Lawrence in a 1908 silent version. In 1945, Vivien Leigh played the role opposite Claude Rains as her first famous lover. Warren William and Henry Wilcoxon played opposite Claudette Colbert in this role in Cecil B. DeMille's 1934 version. The role featured most famously in a 1963 Joseph Mankiewicz film for which the lead actress became the first woman to be paid a million dollars for a part. Rex Harrison and Richard Burton play the two main lovers of, FTP, what most famous role of Elizabeth Taylor, the daughter of Ptolemy XII and lover of Antony.
This role was first played on film by Florence Lawrence in a 1908 silent version.
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