In terms of style, this is the most influential film of the sixties. Explained Andy Warhol about “Cleopatra”, one of the last Hollywood monumental productions, at the time the most expensive film in the world, costing more than 40 million dollars. Warhol knew his way around the glamor business – and he also created one of his legendary screen prints of Elizabeth Taylor, who was Cleopatra in this film. Taylor wears about five dozen different extravagant costumes, her black hair and the color of her eyeshadow change from scene to scene, she had, unheard of at the time, a million-dollar contract for a portion of the box office revenue and a say in the director. She was notoriously unpunctual, often kept her co-star Rex Harrison, who played Caesar, waiting in the mornings, and fell madly in love with fellow co-star Richard Burton, who played Marcus Antonius. The hot affair, both married, caused a lot of excitement among the paparazzi and received severe rebuke from the Pope.