Vivien LEIGH as Cleopatra - no idea whether this is actual or created
Nor am I any particular cultist of anybody - even of NIETZCHE who said he didn't want followerers, so am I a follower non-follower of his? But before YouTube I had images of known historical or celebrity humanoids, and YouTube in the past few years has set about demolishing or otherwise built-up just about everybody. "Changing *paradigms* " of humanoids or events.
So obviously, Ms LEIGH was Scarlett and a dash of The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone and Ship of Fools. Never saw the fabled Streetcar whatever. But in YouTube-land, much is made of her very, *very* complicated physical and mental health and symptomatic love life.
But look at this face. I never accepted Teh Elizabeth or other glimpses from silent screen as "Cleopatra" - too artifically "perfect" but look at this creature's face:
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When somebody asks whether I like "Country" or whatever, it's complicated: I like this and that other "Country" song and pop-European and Classical, lots of stuff but NOT jazz or rhythm based stuff.
Single things grab me. For example, a couple of months ago I was grabbed by this thing by nutcase Salvador DALI. Somebody here took it to mean I wanted to look into - at depth - "Surrealism" or even just him/DALI (a total creep). ------------ Uh, nope. This one thing was all for me.
No DALI or Surrealism for me. I don't know how to explain what grabbed me about this thing.
*** P.S., now am thinking the toes should have been curled in agony like the fingers - or in "ascencion" was the cringing over?
Marilyn Monroe posed for photographer Richard Avedon in 1958 wearing a dress inspired by the one worn by actress Theda Bara as Cleopatra in a 1917 film. Richard Avedon had to photograph Marilyn and recreate images of five famous actresses from the 1930s. Theda Bara was one of them. Once the photos were published, Avedon lost the negatives. He finally found them among some books during a house move in 2000.
Marilyn was interested in serious roles and Twentieth Century Fox kept putting her in dumb blonde roles. She hated those roles.
Anyway, some of Marilyn poses as other actresses included Jean Harlow, Clara Bow, Marlene Dietrich and Lillian Russell. Here's a link if anyone wants to view these photos.
http://www.marilynmonroe.ca/camera/galleries/avedon/index.htm
I found this AI video on YouTube that expresses how great of a Cleopatra she could have been given the chance.