In 1962, Elizabeth was awarded a record-setting contract of $1 million for Cleopatra; a film that also saw her make the Guinness World Record for the most amount of costume changes in a movie (65 ...

The first-century B.C. Cleopatra immortalized by Plutarch, Shakespeare and Elizabeth Taylor was merely the ... up again and again in different costumes.” I enjoyed something like this loopy ...

Martin Nolan, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Julien's Auctions gave PEOPLE an exclusive look at the collection ...

The most famous Cleopatra film was released in 1963 and starred Elizabeth Taylor. The film was hugely expensive for the time — Taylor was reportedly the first actress to get paid $1 million for ...

But there was no relationship quite like the one between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. The couple met for the first time on the set of Cleopatra in 1962 and quickly began an affair ...

"So, of course, Cleopatra was a really massive budget movie. Elizabeth Taylor got paid $1 million. She was the first actor, male or female, in Hollywood to earn $1 million for a movie. It was ...