#queen of the nile

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The Twilight Zone - Season 5 Episode 23 (1964) “Queen of the Nile”

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NEFERTITI: QUEEN OF THE NILE (1961)

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Queen of the Nile

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Bettie Page-Queen of the Nile #2: Mad Love

by Jim Silke and L. Lois Buhalis(Letters)

Dark Horse

Source: Adam Law (comicartfans)

Bettie Page: Queen of the Nile Issue 2 p. 18 Splash Page (2000) Jim Silke, in Adam Law's My Dragon's Hoard of Art- a.k.a the stuff I fancied and could afford at the moment. Comic Art Gallery Room (comicartfans.com)

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Released on this day (5 October 1934) 90 years ago: Cleopatra, visionary director Cecil B DeMille’s lushly opulent and risqué account of the life and loves of Cleopatra VII. DeMille tells his story in 105-minutes – a model of concision compared to the to the bloated 1963 version starring Liz’n’Dick, which is a ponderous, mind-numbing four hours and twenty minutes long! The 1934 interpretation also offers the most sumptuous Art Deco of screen Cleopatras. (Which makes sense, because the Art Deco aesthetic was at least partially inspired by ancient Egyptian imagery). The Motion Picture Production Code came into effect during production, so the eroticism DeMille - the undisputed maestro of kinky pagan spectacle - was able to sneak past the censors is impressive. (We see exposed female nipples in the opening credits!). Claudette Colbert makes for a coolly calculating and seductive Cleopatra. Her slinky and revealing ensembles (heavy on gold lamé and exposed flesh) are by costumier Travis Banton, the genius who also dressed Paramount’s other divas like Marlene Dietrich and Mae West. His creations all seem to focus attention on Colbert’s boobs, and weirdly anticipate the wild looks Bob Mackie would create for Cher in the seventies. Bear in mind the durable Colbert made It Happened One Night, Imitation of Life and Cleopatra all in the same year – an amazing accomplishment for any actress. As Marc Antony, rugged British leading man Henry Wilcoxon matches Colbert for pulchritude and sex appeal (those togas sure showcase his muscled thighs). The sequence where Cleopatra initiates Marc Antony into Egyptian-style hedonism on her gilded barge - incorporating legions of homoerotic baby-oiled gladiators, slave boys in loincloths and semi-naked female concubines waving peacock feathers - is a fever dream of orgiastic Golden Age Hollywood depravity!

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Bettie Page Queen of the Nile artwork by Jim Silke, 2006

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Bettie Page Magazines, Covers and Inserts, #175

Artist: Dave Stevens

Source: Rocketeer Comix

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Jeanne Crain - As Nefertiti in Queen Of The Nile (1961)

Pic Source: @karenshane63 (Twitter)

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Cleopatra's Spirit Unhappy with Casino Cameos

In a twist that has the ancient world rolling in the afterlife, Cleopatra’s ghost has reportedly expressed her displeasure at seeing her image used in modern casinos. The once-mighty Queen of the Nile, known for her intelligence and charisma, is apparently unamused by the less-than-regal associations with slot machines and poker tables. Cleopatra’s spectral frustration reached a tipping point as…

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“Elizabeth Taylor deserves the credit, along with Italian street-gang girls, for the heavily lined eye and pearlized lipstick look of the late fifties and early sixties. Remember all those paparazzi shots of Liz in her Cleopatra eyes and fur hats, sneaking around Rome with Dicky?” 

/ From Flesh and Fantasy by Penny Stallings, 1978 / 

Released in UK cinemas on this day sixty years ago (31 July 1963): lavish but ponderous and numbing 240-minute-long historical epic Cleopatra starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. I’ve never managed to watch this film from beginning to end – has anyone since 1963? Someone should post a condensed “super cut” edit on YouTube of just Taylor’s outrageous wig and cleavage-focused costume changes, eliminating all the stultifying dialogue. The highlight: the pagan spectacle of Cleopatra’s entrance into Rome remains astonishing to this day (and no CGI in sight! Note that you can watch this sequence on YouTube without having to suffer through the entire movie). My favourite performance: Roddy McDowall as a pout-y and effete Octavian. 

Elizabeth Taylor

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Thanks to an amazing mutual @oldnarnian5 for sending me this glorious photo of Vincent Price eating a sandwich on the set of Nefertiti: Queen of the Nile (1961)

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Sixty years ago this summer, throaty-voiced Carrie Nye portrayed the Queen of the Nile in George Bernard Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra onstage at the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Connecticut. As The Harvard Crimson raved in August 1963, “The prime virtue of this production is the Cleopatra of Carrie Nye. As she is made up, she looks surprisingly like our current screen Cleopatra, Elizabeth Taylor; and she has the added advantage of acting ability.” Their critic also noted Nye’s “felinity”: “An occasional huskiness in her vocal delivery suggests she may even have furballs inside her.”

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Dave Stevens, not Jim Silke

Bettie Page Queen of the Nile   cover nd art by Jim Silke

#1  December 1999  

#2  February 2000

#3   April 2000

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I think Faybelle has the biggest hater energy with her locker cause despite the darts & stickers over Cleo's face in Toralei's locker, those pics involve her & that flyer was something Cleo was giving out.

Faybelle had to specifically get those headshots of Apple & Raven and THEN cross them out!

She's just hatin' that much!

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Bettie Page Queen of the Nile #1 (1999) by Jim Silke

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