* the title character of Cleopatra Jones, a 1973 blaxploitation action film starring Tamara Dobson, and its sequel Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold

In 1970, Quincy Jones convinced Johnson to move from New York to California to compose for cinema and television, where he eventually scored movies such as Across 110th Street, Cleopatra Jones, Top of the Heap and Willie Dynamite, as well as TV series such as Starsky & Hutch, Mike Hammer and The Six Million Dollar Man.

Its clients include independent artists and labels such as Daptone Records ( representing artists such as Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings and Charles Bradley ), Cleopatra, Barsuk Records and Frenchkiss Records, who recently partnered with The Orchard to create Frenchkiss Label Group in addition to their digital and physical deals with the company.

Among the memorable performances ( including some from before Papp had the Delacorte for his Shakespeare ) were George C. Scott's Obie-award winning Richard III in 1958 ; Colleen Dewhurst's Kate, Lady Macbeth, Cleopatra ( opposite George C. Scott's Mark Antony ), and Gertrude ; the Prince Hamlet of Stacy Keach opposite Dewhurst's Gertrude with James Earl Jones ' King Claudius, Barnard Hughes's Polonius and Sam Waterston's Laertes ; Sam Waterston's Hamlet ( opposite the Gertrude of Ruby Dee ) with the Laertes of John Lithgow and Andrea Marcovicci's Ophelia ; the Benedick and Beatrice of Sam Waterston and Kathleen Widdoes in Much Ado About Nothing with Barnard Hughes's Keystone Kops version of Dogberry ; the early work of Meryl Streep as Isabella in Measure for Measure ; Mary Beth Hurt as Randall Duk Kim's daughter in Pericles ; James Earl Jones as King Lear ( 1973 ) with Rosalind Cash and Ellen Holly as his wicked daughters ; Raul Julia as Edmund in Jones ' 1973 King Lear, as Osric to Keach's Hamlet, and as Proteus ( in a musical adaptation of Two Gentlemen of Verona which transferred to a Broadway run ).

* Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold ( 1975 )

In addition to his film career, Caesar did much voice-over work for television and radio commercials, including theatrical previews and radio commercials for many Soul Cinema Classic films such as Cleopatra Jones, Superfly, Truck Turner and The Spook Who Sat by the Door, as well the 1978 zombie classic Dawn of the Dead, according to the Internet Movie Database.

* Prudence J. Jones, Cleopatra: The Last Pharaoh, Haus Publishing 2006, ISBN 1-904950-25-6

According to writer / director Hill, the project began when American International Pictures ' head of production, Larry Gordon, lost the rights to the film Cleopatra Jones after making a handshake deal with the producers.

Gordon subsequently approached Hill to quickly make a movie about an African American woman's revenge and beat Cleopatra Jones to market.

The film ended up earning more money than Cleopatra Jones and established Grier as an icon of the genre.

* Cleopatra Jones ( 1973, director )

As an actor, Crocker appeared in five films, including Cleopatra Jones, Five on the Black Hand Side, and Darktown Strutters.

Cleopatra Jones is a 1973 blaxploitation action film starring Tamara Dobson.

Cleopatra " Cleo " Jones ( Dobson ) is a strikingly beautiful black model with an array of flamboyant outfits.

* Tamara Dobson as Cleopatra Jones

Cleopatra Jones was made by Warner Brothers following the success of the Shaft series and AIP ’ s films.

Although Cleopatra Jones contains themes relating to the black and feminist movements, it appeals to the general public and is known to be the “ first blaxploitation film to use martial arts as part of its promotion .” It appeals to audiences who enjoy action movies ( such as the James Bond series ) and has invited comparisons between Jones and Bond.

One critic noted “ On the surface, Cleopatra Jones is about a black distaff James Bond who drives a fancy car equipped with a submachine gun in the door, wears smart clothes, is a karate expert, and travels all over the world as a United States secret agent, destroying the poppy wherever it is found .” Another critic, Chris Norton, even suggested, “ Like Bond, Cleo is not a stealthy character who tries to infiltrate the underworld by losing her identity … Bond seldom tried to hide his identity, often using his real name during introductions, and all Bond films rely on his being recognized as 007 .” Likewise, Jones is rarely undercover, and is flashy and flamboyant on tbe job.

* Mummy of Cleopatra from Thebes ( 100 AD )

Octavian was not present, but at the next meeting made a reply of such a nature that the consuls both left Rome to join Antony ; and Antony, when he heard of it, after publicly divorcing Octavia, came at once to Ephesus with Cleopatra, where a vast fleet was gathered from all parts of the East, of which Cleopatra furnished a large proportion.

But, by the publication of Antony's will, which had been put into his hands by the traitor Plancus, and by carefully letting it be known at Rome what preparations were going on at Samos, and how entirely Antony was acting as the agent of Cleopatra, Octavian produced such a violent outburst of feeling that he easily obtained Antony's deposition from the consulship of 31, for which he had been designated, and a vote for a proclamation of war against Cleopatra, well understood to mean against Antony, though he was not named.

At Samos, Octavian received a message from Cleopatra with the present of a gold crown and throne, offering to abdicate in favour of her sons.

C. Cornelius Gallus was advancing from Paraetonium ; and Octavian himself landed at Pelusium, with the connivance it was believed of Cleopatra.

Mark Antony then tried to flee from the battle, and as a result of a communication breakdown, came to believe that Cleopatra had been captured, and hence committed suicide.

* Cleopatra Borel-Brown ( born 1979 ), female shot putter from Trinidad and Tobago

The phrase " gaudy night " is taken from Shakespeare's Antony & Cleopatra:

The earliest association between anime and adult animation occurred prior to the 1972 release of Fritz the Cat when American distributors attempted to cash in on the publicity garnered from the rating by rushing out dubbed versions of two other adult animations from Japan, both of which featured an X rating in their advertising material: Senya ichiya monogatari and Kureopatora, retitled One Thousand and One Arabian Nights and Cleopatra: Queen of Sex, respectively.

Herod originally leased Jericho from Cleopatra, after Mark Antony gave it to her as a gift.

Mark Antony supposedly gave Cleopatra over 200, 000 scrolls ( taken from the great Library of Pergamum ) for the library as a wedding gift, but this is regarded by some historians as a propagandist claim meant to show Antony's allegiance to Egypt rather than Rome.

Leaving Octavia pregnant with her second child Antonia in Rome, he sailed to Alexandria, where he expected funding from Cleopatra, the mother of his twins.

* William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra, and the films made from these two plays ( played by Marlon Brando and Robert Speaight, respectively ).

Major silent films presumed lost include Saved from the Titanic ( 1912 ); The Apostle, the world's first animated feature film ( 1917 ); Cleopatra ( 1917 ); Arirang ( 1926 ); Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ( 1927 ); The Great Gatsby ( 1926 ); and London After Midnight ( 1927 ).

The biographical tradition says that Virgil and Maecenas took turns reading the Georgics to Octavian upon his return from defeating Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC.

During her 30-year stage career, she played roles ranging from the heroines of Noël Coward and George Bernard Shaw comedies to classic Shakespearean characters such as Ophelia, Cleopatra, Juliet and Lady Macbeth.

For example, Dryden's All for Love, a redaction of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, attempted to compress the sprawl of action and multiple settings from Egypt to Rome to a single place, and within a 24 hour time frame.

The upper level behind the stage could be used as a balcony, as in Romeo and Juliet or Antony and Cleopatra, or as a position from which an actor could harangue a crowd, as in Julius Caesar.

Zenobia is thought to have descended from Sampsiceramus, Dido, and Cleopatra VII through Drusilla of Mauretania.

* 164 BC – Cleopatra Thea Euergetis (" Benefactress "), ruler of the Seleucid kingdom from 125 BC, a daughter of Ptolemy VI of Egypt and his sister / wife Cleopatra II ( d. 121 BC ) ( approximate date )

** Cleopatra III, queen of Egypt from 142 BC ( d. 101 BC )

That occurred when Mark Antony, the other most influential member of the Triumvirate, abandoned his wife, Octavian's sister Octavia Minor, and moved to Egypt to start a long-term romance with Cleopatra, thus becoming de facto stepfather to Caesarion.

With no other refuge to escape to, Antony committed suicide by stabbing himself with his sword in the mistaken belief that Cleopatra had already done so.

Others were a parody of other films including Cleopatra ( Cleo ), Hammer horror films ( Screaming ) and James Bond ( Spying ).

The story of Titus Andronicus is fictional, not historical, unlike Shakespeare's other Roman plays, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus, all of which are based on real historical events and people.

Her legacy survives in numerous works of art and the many dramatizations of her story in literature and other media, including William Shakespeare's tragedy Antony and Cleopatra, Jules Massenet's opera Cléopâtre and the film Cleopatra ( 1963 ).

Nijinsky's unique talent showed in Fokine's pieces such as Le Pavillon d ' Armide ( music by Nikolai Tcherepnin ), Cleopatra ( music by Anton Arensky and other Russian composers ) and a divertissement La Fête.

For Aristotle these physical elements were the centre of the universe and appropriately Cleopatra heralds her coming death when she proclaims, “ I am fire and air ; my other elements / I give to baser life ,” ( 5. 2. 289-90 ).

Once the Women ’ s Liberation Movement grew between the 1960s and 1980s, however, critics began to take a closer look at both Shakespeare ’ s characterization of Egypt and Cleopatra and the work and opinions of other critics on the same matter.

At their wedding reception, the other " freaks " resolve that they will accept Cleopatra in spite of her being a " normal " outsider, and hold an initiation ceremony, wherein they pass a massive goblet of wine around the table while chanting, " We accept her!

Venus ( Leila Hyams ), another circus performer, overhears Cleopatra and Hercules discussing the murder plot and tells Hans and the other freaks.

The other was named Cleopatra.

Cleopatra II married her other brother, Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II in 145 BC.

John Olson's model railroad, the Jerome & Southwestern, originally developed as a series of articles in Model Railroader Magazine and later released in book form was also set in and around Jerome, and referred to other local sites such as Clarkdale, Cleopatra Hill and Mingus Mountain.

Richardson's other parts in the Old Vic seasons included Enobarbus in Antony and Cleopatra, Toby Belch in Twelfth Night, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew, Henry V, Brutus in Julius Caesar, and Iago in Othello.

114 BC, when Cleopatra Thea's other son, Antiochus IX Cyzicenus, returned to Syria to claim the throne and civil war started again.

Small roles in several other films followed including the high profile Caesar and Cleopatra, produced by Gabriel Pascal.

Among other works of art and literature to which Paglia applies her analysis of the Western canon are: the Venus of Willendorf, the Bust of Nefertiti, Ancient Greek sculpture, Donatello's David, Sandro Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Primavera, Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa and The Virgin and Child with St. Anne, Michelangelo, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, William Shakespeare's As You Like It and Antony and Cleopatra, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Marquis de Sade, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Lord Byron's Don Juan, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Honoré de Balzac, Théophile Gautier, Charles Baudelaire, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Henry James, The Pre-Raphaelites, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Emily Dickinson.

On the other hand, there is a dedication on the Temple of Edfu from 57 BC that inscribes Cleopatra Tryphaena's name alongside Ptolemy XII's, which would have meant the king's wife rather than daughter and would be unlikely had Ptolemy XII's wife really died already twelve years earlier.

The movie provided other filmmakers of the time a model, with notable examples including Ben-Hur, Spartacus, and Cleopatra.

Cleopatra, on the other hand, is a multifaceted character: she uses at first her womanly wiles to seduce Cesare and gain the throne of Egypt, and then becomes totally engaged in the love affair with Cesare.

Gyllenhaal has performed in several other plays, including The Tempest, Antony and Cleopatra, The Butterfly Project, and No Exit.

She also wrote three other family sagas, Cashelmara, which focuses on the family of Edward I ( Edward DeSalis ), his son, Edward II ( Patrick De Salis ) and others ; and The Rich Are Different followed by its sequel, The Sins of the Fathers, both of which combine to tell the story, in America's financial industry, of Caesar, Cleopatra, Mark Antony, and Octavian.

The other artists singing were Tina Cousins, Cleopatra, B * Witched, and Billie, known collectively as the Supertroupers.