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<blockquote data-quote="ClassyCo" data-source="post: 438836" data-attributes="member: 7">Although I&#039;ve only seen pieces of CLEOPATRA, it is a little difficult to picture anyone besides Burton as Mark Antony. I don&#039;t personally care much for Burton as an actor, so I would&#039;ve been totally fine had Stephen Boyd been able to stick around, or if they had found a way to get Brando on board. But, as you say, that would&#039;ve been an exercise in itself. Brando, as we know, was in the middle of his own productional chaos over on the MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY remake. For the cheap, backlot version of CLEOPATRA the studio had originally planned, Joan might&#039;ve done alright, but she wasn&#039;t suited to the bigger, more opulent production Walter Wanger had envisioned. I&#039;ve seen Joan&#039;s screen tests and they do leave a lot to be desired, even though she says it was the men they paired with her that needed the help, not her. She didn&#039;t really appear to be movie star material, at least not for &quot;the end of the Golden Era,&quot; as Collins herself puts it, when she arrived just as &quot;the gold was beginning to tarnish&quot;. Her mid-to-late-50s movies don&#039;t really work.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ClassyCo, post: 438836, member: 7"] Although I've only seen pieces of CLEOPATRA, it is a little difficult to picture anyone besides Burton as Mark Antony. I don't personally care much for Burton as an actor, so I would've been totally fine had Stephen Boyd been able to stick around, or if they had found a way to get Brando on board. But, as you say, that would've been an exercise in itself. Brando, as we know, was in the middle of his own productional chaos over on the MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY remake. For the cheap, backlot version of CLEOPATRA the studio had originally planned, Joan might've done alright, but she wasn't suited to the bigger, more opulent production Walter Wanger had envisioned. I've seen Joan's screen tests and they do leave a lot to be desired, even though she says it was the men they paired with her that needed the help, not her. She didn't really appear to be movie star material, at least not for "the end of the Golden Era," as Collins herself puts it, when she arrived just as "the gold was beginning to tarnish". Her mid-to-late-50s movies don't really work. [/QUOTE]

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