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The Egyptian is a 1954 American epic historical drama film made by 20th Century-Fox. Filmed in CinemaScope with color by DeLuxe, it was directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. It is based on Mika Waltari's 1945 novel of the same name and the screenplay was adapted by Philip Dunne and Casey Robinson.
[1] [2] [Note 1] Regarded as "one of the greatest books in Finnish literary history", [5] it is, so far, the only Finnish novel to be adapted into a Hollywood film, which happened in 1954. The Egyptian is the first and the most successful of Waltari's great historical novels, and that which gained him international fame.
Year Title Director Notes 1953 Aida: 1953 Serpent of the Nile: William Castle: With Rhonda Fleming as Cleopatra.: 1954 Two Nights with Cleopatra: 1954 The Egyptian: 1955 Land of the Pharaohs
Per Parry, Negro History Week started during a time when Black history was being "misrepresented and demoralized" by white scholars who promoted ideas like the Lost Cause or the Plantation Myth ...
The Lavon affair was a failed Israeli covert operation, codenamed Operation Susannah, conducted in Egypt in the summer of 1954. As part of a false flag operation, [1] a group of Egyptian Jews were recruited by Israeli military intelligence to plant bombs inside Egyptian-, American-, and British-owned civilian targets: cinemas, libraries, and American educational centers.
Her most notable role was in the 1939 film The Will, which is considered the first in the list of the Top 100 Egyptian films in the history of Egyptian cinema. [67] [68] Egyptian belly dancer and film actress Samia Gamal is credited with bringing belly dancing from Egypt to Hollywood and from there to the schools of Europe. [69]
Props from the 20th Century-Fox production The Egyptian (1954) were bought and re-used for The Ten Commandments—including the "hounds and jackals" game. [103] In March 1954, Walter M. Scott, Fox's set decorator, said: "We have made 5,000 different items for the picture. Now the others want to borrow our things.
A government-owned Egyptian broadcaster has responded to controversy over the casting of a Black actress to play Cleopatra in the Netflix docudrama series “African Queens,” which streams from ...