For the first time in his entire career, James Cagney attended the premiere for one of his films.Hungarian-born Michael Curtiz"" direction (Curtiz was the famed director ofCasablanca (1942)- released in the same year), Ray Heindorf""s musical arrangements, photography by James Wong Howe, and the screenplay by Robert Buckner and Edmund Joseph all contributed to making this a top-notch piece of film-making.He is the sole survivor of he wagon train massacre and mumbling crazily to himself: "It was all burnin"", only Indians around, just all burnin"" and smokin"", smellin"".Plot SynopsisThe legendary Egyptian Queen of the Nile princess/seductress, Cleopatra (Claudette Colbert) becomes the Queen and ruler of Egypt by her manipulative, wily, and seductive ways with the Roman men in her life:Julius Caesar (Warren William) (who is assassinated)Marc Antony (Henry Wilcoxon)This kitsch film is well-known for three scenes:In its infamous barge scene on a set with silky draperies, falling rose petals, and dancing girls, Cleopatra is reclining on a massive dias aboard her mammoth floating bordello on the sea.Their love is not "at first sight" but takes years to develop.[Note: Their contrasting names reflect their polar-opposite attitudes toward life: the dark, angst-driven, eternally pessimistic but warm nature of the male, with the bright-eyed, perky, fresh-faced, effervescent and happier character of the female.