TerryRL
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"Cleopatra" came really close to destroying Fox. Fox basically was hanging on by a thread until "The Sound of Music" opened two years later. In the early '60s the movie cost Fox $44 million (a record $7 mil ultimately went to Liz Taylor). I don't know what Fox's operating budget was at that time, but I know that they had to sell off their backlot to cover the massive costs on the movie. The budget was originally $10 million, which was gigantic at the time.