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# Costumes from Mankiewicz’s “Cleopatra” bought for the making of “Carry On Cleo”
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/mnogie-kostiumy-so-semok-kleopatry-dzhozefa-mankevicha-byli-priobreteny-dlia-semok-tak-derzhat-kleo/
- Published: 2020-11-12T09:33:42.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T19:04:04.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Cinema, Observations, Humour

Many of the costumes from Joseph Mankiewicz's "Cleopatra" were bought for the filming of "Carry On Cleo". So Mark Antony swaggers about in the very same outfits in both films. Who wore them better, Richard Burton or Sid James, may be judged from these magnificent leopard-skin suits of armour alone. It must be said that as an actor Sidney James is, of course, the more significant figure than the better-looking Burton. Nor did the comedy Cleo suffer anything like the box-office catastrophe that befell Cleopatra

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