Except, she was of black African descent. The only accurate aspect is the Nubians, but ancient Kemetic/Egyptians were of black African heritage. I was deceived until I witnessed numerous black African soldiers and realized that all the kings were black, sporting hairstyles of braids and Afros. This was the most significant misappropriation of history... constructing pyramids with white/olive people who didn't exist in that era in Kemet, in temperatures ranging from 85 to 122 degrees without shirts and leg coverings. It seems plausible only in movies
Anne's performance in every scene is pure fabulousness for the viewer: over the top yet controlled, calculated, carefully curated, and exquisitely executed for the big screen. Anne super collides emotion, drama, and, especially, glamour into one luscious, juicy role that is perhaps the most entertaining of this cinematic epic.
@@michaelverbakel7632 her acting in the “Ten Commandments” is way better then anything on the screen I’ve seen in years. The actresses of today are boring & ugly as hell. They have no talent.
@@SUGAR_XYLER So I heard. For some odd reason I caught NO mention of it in advance from Channel 7. But what the hell, I got my hands on a DVD of this wonderful epic a couple of years back.
Some of those costumes could have been worn by Elvis that’s how good Edith Head was. But all joking aside I was surprised some of Ann’s costumes passed censorship back then !
She's everything evil and wrong with my sex all rolled up into one diabolical package. How she taunts the men in her life and plays games scheming manipulating and vicious! Wonderful character!
I never understood the implications of this scene when I was a kid. There is definitely the implication that the enemy really "knew" Moses very very well. Quite risqué suggestion of interracial sex in the 1950s
Anne Baxter was very beautiful and a very good actress she was perfect in the ten commandments I love watching the ten commandments its one of my favorite movies
I was born in 1977, watched this movie every Easter, still do. No actress ever looked more beautiful than Anne Baxter did as Nefretiri and I suspect no actress ever will look as beautiful in any movie ever. Perfect line delivery as well.
When I was little and every Easter night after church and eating so many chocolate bunnies and jelly beans in Easter baskets, my parents let us stay up to watch the Ten Commandments. My favorite movie of ALL time. I finally have it on both CD and Blue Ray. She is the scene stealer.
I read where Ann Baxter turned down this role because she didn't think she was right for this part. Thank God she agreed to take the part. She was excellent in the role ...and for me ... I fall in love with her all over again.. What a beautiful woman.
Nefreteri is exactly the sort of role that Eve Harrington -- whom Anne Baxter had played so effectively in "All About Eve" six years earlier -- had in mind when she schemed and plotted to become a star.
@Sandra Norman Actually, I think that Baxter -- like Heston and Brynner -- was acting in the old, grand manner style that had been the rule in the theater for generations (especially when a performer was playing royalty, as these three people were). If there is anyone in "The Ten Commandments" who was Grade A ham through and through, it's Edward G. Robinson as Dathan. (Can one call a Jewish actor a ham?) It certainly wasn' because of lack of talent -- Robinson was a splendid actor elsewhere, as well as an extremely intelligent man, with a developed sense of fine art that led him to amass a collection of paintings that was the envy of many museums. More than likely, De Mille directed him to give this performance. I've gotten laughs at parties doing an imitation of Robinson-as-Dathan, in the inflections that he used in "Little Caesar": "Yeah, we're goin' across the desert, see? Yeah."
In fairness, Director Cecil B. DeMille told all his actors to play their roles as if they were in the silent era... so, everybody had a big 'ol heapin' helpin' of scenery.
Kosher or not, nobody served ham with a healthy side of corn, like the great Cecil B. Demille. You left out my favorite Anne Baxter Nefreteri line; "Moses, Moses, Moses."
A remark after my own heart! Whenever Anne Baxters face pops up into my mind, the first thing that I say is, "Moses, Moses, Moses."! DeMille was a genius. I just wish the line in Sunset Boulevard was placed differently. While trailing down the winding staircase, Norma, instead of saying, "Mr DeMille, I'm ready for my closeup",. Should have been, "I'm ready for my close up, Mr DeMille"!!!!!! As for me, I love corny!!!
I agree..the acting in The Ten Commandments is with keeping of Cecil B. DeMille's style, which harkens back to the silent era of acting, kind of over the top ..I read years ago she even said this,,.but it fits so well in this epic film that only Cecil B. DeMille could pull off even in 1956 ..when the style of acting was more method & realistic
@Tony B No, it wasn't bad at all. At the time, they cast actors who acted in roles. They were not obsessed with race and no one in the audience cared, not even the races you seem to think were offended.
As a kid I wax in love with her, as an adult I still am 😅 I only appreciate more how terrific her character was written and how well the actress brought her to life
I always loved part whete she said you couldn't even kill him And when Yul said His God 🙏 is God Ii t shows that when you are in God will nobody can touch you not even enemy cause God is God almighty
7:33 This right here... such venom, such sarcasm, Ramesses, the most powerful man in the world, can't even look at her because the roasting is so severe. Pharoah sits in this throne like a lion ready to strike, but he's frozen in place. And all of it happening right in front of his closest advisors! Played to perfection by both actors
Yeah, I enjoyed how Nefretiri roasted Ramses every time she gets. "All that you wanted from me, he would not even take." "You told Moses to build bricks without straw. Now he's ordering you to build cities without bricks!" "Can you hear the laughter, Ramses? The laughter of kings, in Babylon, in Canan, in Troy." "Before you strike, let me see his blood on your sword. You couldn't even touch him."
She is literally the perfect balance between Rupaul's Drag Race and Madonna. I love, love, love her performance in TTC! My Queen. I love when she says "Oooooh Moohses, Mooooohses, MOOOOOSes!" HIlarious!
Love the overly saturated colours of Technicolor I just wish some new movies, not all but just a few, like musicals or comedy had this look. It really gives a certain indescribable quality to a film, very striking.
Clearly this was DeMille's masterpiece. I've always loved the movie. It has no equal in the history of the cinema. I almost want to cry when I think how DeMille never got to see this magnificent restoration. Yes, Anne Baxter is marvelous in her role as Nefretiri. She really puts her heart & soul into it. From this, for the 1st-time, really, I begin to see how fine an actress she must've been in general. She brings the Egyptian queen to life in a truly 3-dimensional portrait. And those costumes! Just awesome, my favorite being that ultra-slinky silver one!
@@rogerpropes7129 Hollywood rarely troubled itself over such historical details. DeMille generally was quite careful about accuracy, I think, but entertainment always came first. Recognizable marquee stars were a primary consideration, too.
@@jackbuckley7816 That's why it's so nice that the director of 10 commandments cared about historical details, like making sure a bald person took the role yul brenner did and the men wore eye shadow.
Oddly enough the was the second time he made this movie. He did a silent version back in the 1920s. He was able to take everything he learned from making the silent version and apply it to the 1950s color version.
This is a very fun movie from my youth. Anne Baxter was really hamming it up here. If you want to see a terrific Baxter performance watch All About Eve.
Truth. She went Mano o mano with the legendary Bette Davis and kept the young guns like Marilyn Monroe and Celeste Holmes at bay. Truly a ferociously talented actress.
@@goodowner5000 Yep, she does very sharp work in "The Razor's Edge." I've heard Judy Garland and Betty Grable were two other names considered for the role. Would've been fascinating to see either play the role, but Baxter is plenty fascinating herself, and deserved her Oscar.
LOL Then she proceeds to roast Moses later, in a loving way, of course. "Conqueror of Ethiopia. Servant of the Nile god. General of Generals...(snicker)...A man of mud."
Sadly for Nefretiri, she could be manipulative and spiteful, all of it under a facade of playfulness. Sephora was up front and straight with Moses. The better catch. Hopefully some day Archie will realize this and leave Veronica for Betty.
@user-dr9sh3dp5r it seems moses had an affinity for ethiopian women as he married two of them. The less well known one (Tharbis) is not mentioned (by name) in the bible but is mentioned by Josephus. The other wife being Zipporah as you said.
Memnet was played by Judith Anderson, not Edith Evans. Anderson had a solid career, including parts in Laura, Strange Love of Martha Ivers, and Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.
Anne Baxter is perfect. How else would you want Nefertiti played? By a method actress? By a Meryl Streep? Give me a break. The whole story is a big, sweeping, moving experience. She, and everyone else in the film, is perfect.
"All that you wanted from me, he would not even take" haha, imagine the woman of your dreams saying that to you about another man. Pharaoh was defeated on all fronts at this point.
Right? To say that to her own husband…Pharaoh wanted all of Nefertiti yet he knew she was never fully his. He probably forces himself on her. To top that with Moses being a gentleman to her was probably a slap to pharaoh’s face.
@user-fn2gn7mx2z im surprised he didnt execute her for dropping that bombshell on him. You can almost feel sorry for him, his world is callapsing about him and he is powerless to do anything about it. His self proclaimed diety is no doubt being questioned by the other Egyptians. To top it off, his wife tells him she offered herself on a plate to the man whom he had always been envious of.
Once in a while, the phrase, "And Moses?", pops into my head and I start laughing. The way Ms. Baxter elongates the name Moses is just too funny! There are no nuance acting in this film.
We were in grade school when the film was released. The offer was to all public school kids to go to the theater and see the movie for FREE. Only thing was we had to get up in time to make the 10:00am movie. I was lazy because I could not imagine any movie lasting 4 hours without me squirming in the seat or falling back asleep.
@@sandranorman6451 I was 12 and the whole school was loaded into buses for the 20 mile ride to the nearest theater. (We walked in at the scene where she is standing in front of a bronze mirror.) The movie changed my life and I have seen it dozens of times in the last 66 years. Actually my favorite scenes were with Debra Paget, who I think is still alive.
As a small child I watched this film obsessively. I loved Anne's performance the best and considered it the pinnacle of acting, and thought everyone else around her was plain boring. LOL I'm surprised they had sets left by the time she was done eating!
This movie was a HAM SANDWICH!! Everyone was perfect in their roles. I love this movie. And I will never get tired of watching it (so long as I only watch it once a year) 🙂
She held her own so well, I would have sworn she was in the film much longer, even with a few cut out. Baxter and DeCarlo play each of their roles so well, especially when you consider either of them was playing against their type earlier in their careers. Ann Blyth, Vanessa Brown, Joan Evans, Rhonda Fleming, Coleen Gray, Jane Griffiths, Audrey Hepburn, Jean Marie, Vivien Leigh, Jane Russell, and Joan Taylor could have played this character, but Baxter did the role justice.
I actually loved her, and I loved Ramses too. I felt like Nefertiri should have chosen Ramses instead anyway, Yul Brynner was a lot hotter than Charlton Heston.
First off, love Anne's over the top acting. Her delivery is brilliantly hammy. The thing that bugs me the most is how the Royal House of Egypt seems to entertain itself by sailing on sedan chairs through the mud pits just to give the slave an even harder time!
Anne Baxter's role as Nefretiri is a great example of ' She is so bad she's good' type of acting. I heard she won a few bad acting awards for this. She is wonderful as Nefertiri but she plays the role with hammy overacting for the entire film.
@@michaelverbakel7632 Still love her. As over the top she was... I can't imagine anyone else playing the role. Check out this 1983 documentary she narrated about Frank Lloyd Wright!! Cheers! ua-cam.com/video/mk0VkpDRhms/v-deo.html
Nefertiti was the most interesting person in the movie. You felt downright sorry for her. Her plight. Baxter was wonderful. You wanted Moses to go back to her. They both loved each other. She loved him till the end.
You wanted, but you shouldn’t, cuz they’re all on the extreme wrong side of history. 😢 Like the prologue says, Exodus was the Birth Of Freedom. Anyone against THAT needs to be cancelled, amirite. 😅
@@theprinceoftides6836 loves him enough to want him murdered in the end by the man who's heart she is now playing. She is written as a Hollywood Vamp. The whole movie in the silent era was a celebration of the Hollywood Egypt of the 20 and this remake, along with the Cleopatra remake was celebrating themselves in gorgeous technicolor.
OMG !!! She did such a good job playing Nefertiti Yes now adays its camp but still her body language facial expressions work sooo well . Perfect type casting for this 1950s hollywood iconic epic . such an attractive woman with a wink and sense of humor 🙂 ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨♥🧬😍😊💯💓💅👄🌴
Anne Baxter's character is the absolute personification of the phrase "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." She played Nefretiri to perfection.
shes an ugly human are you dumb? she was down bad, moses wouldn’t commit to her, thats Sad
She's perfect...
Yep, she was beautiful as a jewelry Egyptian.
Except, she was of black African descent. The only accurate aspect is the Nubians, but ancient Kemetic/Egyptians were of black African heritage. I was deceived until I witnessed numerous black African soldiers and realized that all the kings were black, sporting hairstyles of braids and Afros.
This was the most significant misappropriation of history... constructing pyramids with white/olive people who didn't exist in that era in Kemet, in temperatures ranging from 85 to 122 degrees without shirts and leg coverings. It seems plausible only in movies
@@Kemet3.0 Sure like Cleopatra right 😂
Anne's performance in every scene is pure fabulousness for the viewer: over the top yet controlled, calculated, carefully curated, and exquisitely executed for the big screen. Anne super collides emotion, drama, and, especially, glamour into one luscious, juicy role that is perhaps the most entertaining of this cinematic epic.
Pareey's performance or my performance is my will is all I need to meet him with the will.
"Well, what croakings of doom have you today?"
That sass and shade! Anne was fantastic on this film!
She sure was!!❤
I loved Anne's over-the-top performance. Loved it as a kid....love it now.
I loved Anne Baxter’s performance I wish the critics would’ve shown more love for her imo she deserved an best supporting actress nomination
She did win best supporting actress for “the razor’s edge” 1946
@@notnek202 I know lol I was just saying I wished she received an nomination for The Ten Commandments
For that great hammy overacting performance. Uh-huh!
@@michaelverbakel7632 absolutely ❤️
@@michaelverbakel7632 her acting in the “Ten Commandments” is way better then anything on the screen I’ve seen in years. The actresses of today are boring & ugly as hell. They have no talent.
My Mom would make a giant pan of popcorn with gobs of butter for us every time this came on tv. One of my favorite memories 😊
Every Easter Sunday my grandma and I would watch it also. Happy memories!
Back in the day, my family & I would watch this classic every Easter Sunday on Channel 7 (WABC).
@@alonenjersey it was on April Fool's Day this year, a Saturday 😂
@@SUGAR_XYLER So I heard. For some odd reason I caught NO mention of it in advance from Channel 7. But what the hell, I got my hands on a DVD of this wonderful epic a couple of years back.
One of the few movies I could watch with my grandparents as a kid. And yeah, popcorn 😋
She was excellent in this role and looked stunning in the Egyptian outfit’s
Edith Head did an extraordinary job with the costuming in this film
I love costume dramas, and "The Ten Commandments" would be right up there. 🤩🥰
Some of those costumes could have been worn by Elvis that’s how good Edith Head was. But all joking aside I was surprised some of Ann’s costumes passed censorship back then !
@@claudiocorleone7856 wow - you’re right - some were kinda “sheer” 🥰
@@claudiocorleone7856 That sky blue number certainly had me gawking...
@@brt5273 😂🤣😂
This is Anne Baxter’s best role. She was fantastic.
Eve
The Razor's Edge, but this is a close second.
She's everything evil and wrong with my sex all rolled up into one diabolical package. How she taunts the men in her life and plays games scheming manipulating and vicious! Wonderful character!
All about Eve was her best role
"You've been drinking honey wine."
"Go home Memnet, you're drunk."
"Such a bee-yooooo-tiful enemy...!" Best. Line. Reading. Ever! !
I always knew just after saying it she would slink off to get a drink. A saucer of milk.
I love the way she says that line to...and the way she looks at her when she strolls away... priceless!! I burst out laughing!!!
And not wrong!
I never understood the implications of this scene when I was a kid. There is definitely the implication that the enemy really "knew" Moses very very well. Quite risqué suggestion of interracial sex in the 1950s
Jealous Queens can’t rule
"You couldn't even kill him"...the best line in movie history.
I'll say it belongs in the Top 50.
His God, is God. Perfect comeback.
Anne Baxter was very beautiful and a very good actress she was perfect in the ten commandments I love watching the ten commandments its one of my favorite movies
I was born in 1977, watched this movie every Easter, still do. No actress ever looked more beautiful than Anne Baxter did as Nefretiri and I suspect no actress ever will look as beautiful in any movie ever. Perfect line delivery as well.
I watched this every Eater also! born in 1982.
She is absolutely stunning
She was insanely hot as The Queen of the Nile.
Agree 100%
@@theprinceoftides6836 Sultry is thee word...
costume design is just out of this world !
When I was little and every Easter night after church and eating so many chocolate bunnies and jelly beans in Easter baskets, my parents let us stay up to watch the Ten Commandments. My favorite movie of ALL time. I finally have it on both CD and Blue Ray. She is the scene stealer.
It's on tonight @7pm!!
What a talented actress and beautiful woman! She’s killing her costumes! And hats on to Edith Head!
hats *off
Hats on is a pun and intentional
@@lindalaw8368 LOL! Thanks for letting me in on the joke!
"Puckered old persimmon" I'm stealing that.
Lol!!! Right!??😅😅😅
Anne Baxter was a babe in her day, but Olive Deering (Miriam) was utterly gorgeous.
She was so beautiful and her outfits were AMAZING!!!
I read where Ann Baxter turned down this role because she didn't think she was right for this part. Thank God she agreed to take the part. She was excellent in the role ...and for me ...
I fall in love with her all over again..
What a beautiful woman.
2:53 Now I can’t speak for all us but I want a girl like that
White washed
Nefreteri is exactly the sort of role that Eve Harrington -- whom Anne Baxter had played so effectively in "All About Eve" six years earlier -- had in mind when she schemed and plotted to become a star.
💜💜💜💜💜
And she deserve every Raspberry she earned. “So let it be written -so let it be done “.
@Sandra Norman Actually, I think that Baxter -- like Heston and Brynner -- was acting in the old, grand manner style that had been the rule in the theater for generations (especially when a performer was playing royalty, as these three people were). If there is anyone in "The Ten Commandments" who was Grade A ham through and through, it's Edward G. Robinson as Dathan. (Can one call a Jewish actor a ham?) It certainly wasn' because of lack of talent -- Robinson was a splendid actor elsewhere, as well as an extremely intelligent man, with a developed sense of fine art that led him to amass a collection of paintings that was the envy of many museums. More than likely, De Mille directed him to give this performance. I've gotten laughs at parties doing an imitation of Robinson-as-Dathan, in the inflections that he used in "Little Caesar": "Yeah, we're goin' across the desert, see? Yeah."
I just saw All About Eve today. Free on UA-cam. Perfected the conniving character.
She is owning every scene!
Serving for real
She was having great fun playing this role!
She's not chewing the Scnenery, She's Wolfing it down.
She could have swallowed the Pyramids!
She's voring it
@@countesselizabeth lol stop..
In fairness, Director Cecil B. DeMille told all his actors to play their roles as if they were in the silent era... so, everybody had a big 'ol heapin' helpin' of scenery.
This is this world Greatest Movie of all time!!!!!!!
@@elaineelaine3374 greatest parade of kitsch is more like it.....last gasp of victorian tableaux-vivants come to life in technicolor
She pulled it off best by far, though.
The servant of Nefertiri was played by the great Australian actress Judith Anderson, aka Mrs Danvers in Rebecca. She specialised in such roles!
Thank you! I couldn’t remember where I knew her from. Dear old Danny
Mrs Danvers! Thank you! It was nagging me what I knew her from!
@@pdoll96 You're welcome!😁
@@LisaDiazAppleLisa You're welcome!👏
My Mom told me years ago Judith Anderson was the first woman to play Hamlet on Broadway (eta: wikipedia says she played Hamlet but not on Broadway)
Kosher or not, nobody served ham with a healthy side of corn, like the great Cecil B. Demille. You left out my favorite Anne Baxter Nefreteri line; "Moses, Moses, Moses."
“I cannot live if you must die!”
"You stubborn, splendid, adorable fool!" 😄
😆 haha
A remark after my own heart!
Whenever Anne Baxters face pops up into my mind, the first thing that I say is, "Moses, Moses, Moses."!
DeMille was a genius.
I just wish the line in Sunset Boulevard was placed differently.
While trailing down the winding staircase, Norma, instead of saying, "Mr DeMille, I'm ready for my closeup",.
Should have been, "I'm ready for my close up, Mr DeMille"!!!!!!
As for me, I love corny!!!
0:20 The same line delivered
What a juicy role she was given! And indeed she chews every scene and everything in her path.
ANNE. WAS. AWESOME. !!!
The most iconic side ponytail in cinematic history.
She was fabulous in this movie!
One of the most beautiful and glamorous women in the world.
The Best Hollywood movie I ever saw.
I watched the movie seven or eight times in my younger days.
The over the top spellbinding performance of the great Anne Baxter.
She certainly did! Absolutely exquisite❤
What fantastic sets and costumes and jewelry
Nothing compares to Baxter's performance in The Razors Edge. So very heartbreaking and she won a well deserved Oscar
I agree..the acting in The Ten Commandments is with keeping of Cecil B. DeMille's style, which harkens back to the silent era of acting, kind of over the top ..I read years ago she even said this,,.but it fits so well in this epic film that only Cecil B. DeMille could pull off even in 1956 ..when the style of acting was more method & realistic
She was so perfect some people should never die
Anne Baxter is a beautiful and good actress.
She is the really perfect match for this role.. What acting ,,, she is soo brilliant
wrong race.
@@tonyb9651 The casting director should've been drawn and quartered.
But DeMille wanted Grace Kelly, presumably in a black wig.
@@asher6657 Irrelevant. Hope we get past this phase you're in.
@Tony B No, it wasn't bad at all. At the time, they cast actors who acted in roles. They were not obsessed with race and no one in the audience cared, not even the races you seem to think were offended.
She was Fabulous!
I love that scene where she shoots flower petals off the balcony. Oh Moses Moses!! I do that from my balcony sometimes!!
Anne Baxter seemed to be a very nice person and a great actress as well......I hope she left a good legacy in her life :)
I love The Ten Commandments. And the costumes were gorgeous 😍
As a kid I wax in love with her, as an adult I still am 😅 I only appreciate more how terrific her character was written and how well the actress brought her to life
What a gorgeous voice.
And to think about the actresses of today and how they fall short in every way.
I always loved part whete she said you couldn't even kill him
And when Yul said His God 🙏 is God
Ii t shows that when you are in God will nobody can touch you not even enemy cause God is God almighty
Anne Baxter was so hot. She did a fantastic job.
YES, hot, hot, hot! She made the Sahara look like the Arctic!!
7:33 This right here... such venom, such sarcasm, Ramesses, the most powerful man in the world, can't even look at her because the roasting is so severe. Pharoah sits in this throne like a lion ready to strike, but he's frozen in place. And all of it happening right in front of his closest advisors! Played to perfection by both actors
Yeah, I enjoyed how Nefretiri roasted Ramses every time she gets.
"All that you wanted from me, he would not even take."
"You told Moses to build bricks without straw. Now he's ordering you to build cities without bricks!"
"Can you hear the laughter, Ramses? The laughter of kings, in Babylon, in Canan, in Troy."
"Before you strike, let me see his blood on your sword. You couldn't even touch him."
Her wardrobe…..wow….just…WOW!
She is literally the perfect balance between Rupaul's Drag Race and Madonna. I love, love, love her performance in TTC! My Queen. I love when she says "Oooooh Moohses, Mooooohses, MOOOOOSes!" HIlarious!
O pleeeese
WTH
What a weirdo. Comparing this beauty to a dragqueen and an alien
Love the overly saturated colours of Technicolor I just wish some new movies, not all but just a few, like musicals or comedy had this look. It really gives a certain indescribable quality to a film, very striking.
"And such a beautiful enemy."
Pull in your claws Neferiti.
I love the way she says 'Bea-YOO-tiful'!
I’ve liked a lot of old movies but this film makes me want to watch EVERY old movie, ever!
Well you'll always be disappointed.
@@rogerpropes7129 how so?
@@jeremyjealousy Because this movie was one good one in a million.
Her best role ever,And she was the star of this film,and by some distance.
Clearly this was DeMille's masterpiece. I've always loved the movie. It has no equal in the history of the cinema. I almost want to cry when I think how DeMille never got to see this magnificent restoration. Yes, Anne Baxter is marvelous in her role as Nefretiri. She really puts her heart & soul into it. From this, for the 1st-time, really, I begin to see how fine an actress she must've been in general. She brings the Egyptian queen to life in a truly 3-dimensional portrait. And those costumes! Just awesome, my favorite being that ultra-slinky silver one!
At 36 she was much too old to be an Egyptian princess who would have been married off to a brother at age 12.
@@rogerpropes7129 Hollywood rarely troubled itself over such historical details. DeMille generally was quite careful about accuracy, I think, but entertainment always came first. Recognizable marquee stars were a primary consideration, too.
@@jackbuckley7816 That's why it's so nice that the director of 10 commandments cared about historical details, like making sure a bald person took the role yul brenner did and the men wore eye shadow.
@@rogerpropes7129 History be damned....this is Hollywood gold.
Oddly enough the was the second time he made this movie. He did a silent version back in the 1920s. He was able to take everything he learned from making the silent version and apply it to the 1950s color version.
This is a very fun movie from my youth. Anne Baxter was really hamming it up here. If you want to see a terrific Baxter performance watch All About Eve.
Truth. She went Mano o mano with the legendary Bette Davis and kept the young guns like Marilyn Monroe and Celeste Holmes at bay. Truly a ferociously talented actress.
Absolutely.Although Chase A Crooked Shadow was another classic.
...or the role she won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for, "The Razor's Edge" w/Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, Herbert Marshall, & Clifton Webb.
@@goodowner5000 Yep, she does very sharp work in "The Razor's Edge." I've heard Judy Garland and Betty Grable were two other names considered for the role. Would've been fascinating to see either play the role, but Baxter is plenty fascinating herself, and deserved her Oscar.
Saw it today free on UA-cam
One of the All time Great movies of all time.
"No, not that one. The very dirty one...there."
LOL
Then she proceeds to roast Moses later, in a loving way, of course.
"Conqueror of Ethiopia. Servant of the Nile god. General of Generals...(snicker)...A man of mud."
Im so happy to watch this ...
Fantastic performance and the blue dress is magic
The lines were very poetic
Sadly for Nefretiri, she could be manipulative and spiteful, all of it under a facade of playfulness.
Sephora was up front and straight with Moses. The better catch. Hopefully some day Archie will realize this and leave Veronica for Betty.
The ten commandments is a great movie
To Watch! ....
A worthier choice for best picture that year instead of that overlong travelogue "Around the World in 80 Days".
@@darryljorden9177 I agree on that!
In the bible Moses married an ethiopian woman, so nefertiti getting a little jealous of the ethiopian princess is a nice touch.
I thought that was Solomon. I didn’t realize Zipporah was Ethiopian, that’s really cool.
@user-dr9sh3dp5r it seems moses had an affinity for ethiopian women as he married two of them. The less well known one (Tharbis) is not mentioned (by name) in the bible but is mentioned by Josephus. The other wife being Zipporah as you said.
Zipporah was the daughter of Jethro, a Midianite, not an Ethiopian.
@@mikechet49 yes thats right, my bad.
@@mikechet49 what tribe did the Midianites originate from?
I’m so jealous that Anne Baxter got to push Dame Edith Evans off a balcony. I’ve always wanted to do that.
Memnet was played by Judith Anderson, not Edith Evans. Anderson had a solid career, including parts in Laura, Strange Love of Martha Ivers, and Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.
Dame Judith Anderson played Memnet.
@@einezcrespo2107 Dame Judith Anderson's best role was Mrs. Danvers in Rebecca.
Hahaha. Lovit
Anne Baxter is perfect. How else would you want Nefertiti played? By a method actress? By a Meryl Streep? Give me a break. The whole story is a big, sweeping, moving experience. She, and everyone else in the film, is perfect.
"All that you wanted from me, he would not even take" haha, imagine the woman of your dreams saying that to you about another man. Pharaoh was defeated on all fronts at this point.
Right? To say that to her own husband…Pharaoh wanted all of Nefertiti yet he knew she was never fully his. He probably forces himself on her. To top that with Moses being a gentleman to her was probably a slap to pharaoh’s face.
@user-fn2gn7mx2z im surprised he didnt execute her for dropping that bombshell on him. You can almost feel sorry for him, his world is callapsing about him and he is powerless to do anything about it. His self proclaimed diety is no doubt being questioned by the other Egyptians. To top it off, his wife tells him she offered herself on a plate to the man whom he had always been envious of.
Poor Pharoah....lol
That was a really sick burn!
She was absolutely venomous the whole time, I love her character
It's difficult to watch Anne Baxter because of her mind-blowingly amazing performance as the conniving Eve Harrington in All About Eve.
When my twin and I discussed this film, we say
MOOHsis
Such a hoot ❤love it!
Once in a while, the phrase, "And Moses?", pops into my head and I start laughing. The way Ms. Baxter elongates the name Moses is just too funny! There are no nuance acting in this film.
21st century folks forget what a landmark film this really was.
We were in grade school when the film was released. The offer was to all public school kids to go to the theater and see the movie for FREE. Only thing was we had to get up in time to make the 10:00am movie. I was lazy because I could not imagine any movie lasting 4 hours without me squirming in the seat or falling back asleep.
@@sandranorman6451 I was 12 and the whole school was loaded into buses for the 20 mile ride to the nearest theater. (We walked in at the scene where she is standing in front of a bronze mirror.) The movie changed my life and I have seen it dozens of times in the last 66 years. Actually my favorite scenes were with Debra Paget, who I think is still alive.
@@rogerpropes7129 She is! 89! A year older than my mother.
At first I thought you were meant to type 20th Century Fox instead of 21st century folks!
@@user-sk3tn1hr8t Haha! This film was Paramount! 😀
Originally Paramount wanted Audrey Hepburn to play Nefretiri. Then realized she was a better fit for Natasha in "War and Peace."
As a small child I watched this film obsessively. I loved Anne's performance the best and considered it the pinnacle of acting, and thought everyone else around her was plain boring. LOL I'm surprised they had sets left by the time she was done eating!
She is perfection periodt💅🔥
Anne Baxter and Yul Brynner were the stars of this movie. Heston is being Heston, and great, but Ben Hur was his better film.
Heston was ALWAYS HESTON. JUST LIKE WAYNE WAS ALWAYS WAYNE !
Yul Brynner in 1956....The King, Pharaoh Ramses, and General Bounine in Anastasia all in one year. Freaking Badass. Dude made bald look hot.
@@maestroclassico5801 : soooooo true‼️ He exuded masculinity on screen and stage!!
@@maestroclassico5801 he was born to be bald, just like Mussolini.
This movie was a HAM SANDWICH!! Everyone was perfect in their roles. I love this movie. And I will never get tired of watching it (so long as I only watch it once a year) 🙂
Anne Baxter’s grandfather was Frank Lloyd Wright, the architect of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and her uncle invented Lincoln Logs
So thats how she managed to become an actress
I did not know that, as I have long been a fan of Wright's Falling Waters.
@@sphinxrising1129Fallingwater is a splendid work of architecture!
She held her own so well, I would have sworn she was in the film much longer, even with a few cut out. Baxter and DeCarlo play each of their roles so well, especially when you consider either of them was playing against their type earlier in their careers. Ann Blyth, Vanessa Brown, Joan Evans, Rhonda Fleming, Coleen Gray, Jane Griffiths, Audrey Hepburn, Jean Marie, Vivien Leigh, Jane Russell, and Joan Taylor could have played this character, but Baxter did the role justice.
Apparently they wanted Audrey Hepburn but she was busy.
Eve, oh Eve. Anne flawless!!!!
Cecil be demile the master craftsman
Every man should be loved like Nefretiri loved Moses…if only for one time in their life…..
And a decade later she achieved the ultimate role: a villain on "Batman".
I actually loved her, and I loved Ramses too. I felt like Nefertiri should have chosen Ramses instead anyway, Yul Brynner was a lot hotter than Charlton Heston.
Yeah, because at the end of the day...whose *hotter* is what it came down to.
@@maximusprime3459 I mean, the supposed attractiveness of Moses seemed to be what Nefertiri cared about...
@@ladyreverie7027It seemed like almost every girl in the movie was swooning over Moses, especially Sephora’s sisters.
Still the best live action movie about Moses ever😏
Nefertiri is a whole mood
She purrs!
"That is Miss Anne Baxter in the Ten Commandments, and those are the moves."
Too Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)
Nefretiri is so beautiful, and this wunderful stoffs. I loved her since I was a girl. Forever ❤
First off, love Anne's over the top acting. Her delivery is brilliantly hammy.
The thing that bugs me the most is how the Royal House of Egypt seems to
entertain itself by sailing on sedan chairs through the mud pits just to give
the slave an even harder time!
What? How can you not sail around on sedan chairs through the mud? Lording it over the slaves is half the fun.
@@rwarren58 LOL! Egyptians have all the fun...
Anne Baxter's role as Nefretiri is a great example of ' She is so bad she's good' type of acting. I heard she won a few bad acting awards for this. She is wonderful as Nefertiri but she plays the role with hammy overacting for the entire film.
@@michaelverbakel7632 Still love her. As over the top she was... I can't imagine anyone else playing the role. Check out this 1983 documentary she narrated about Frank Lloyd Wright!! Cheers!
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@@Aramanth Hey! Thanks! As an Anne Bater fan, thanks!
Technicolor you can eat with a spoon!
1:01 The eyebrows, THE EYEBROWS! That completes the package!
Anne Baxter will always be the ideal Nefretiri.
Even the way she says "Ramesses" is like daggers in his back. Great stuff.
I am not sure if it is the make up the lighting or whatever, everyone's skin look phenomenal. Everyone looks pregnant with the glowing lol.
Bax's performance as Nefretiri was the defining role of her cinematic career.
She not only served the whole meal but ate it too
The Ten Commandments is nearly four hours of unmatched silliness, Anne Baxter seems to be the only one in joke and she steals the show by far.
My parents always had us watch this movie for the religious aspect, but all I ever noticed was the see through costumes.
She was so glamorous in every scene in this film
Nefertiti was the most interesting person in the movie. You felt downright sorry for her. Her plight. Baxter was wonderful. You wanted Moses to go back to her. They both loved each other. She loved him till the end.
You wanted, but you shouldn’t, cuz they’re all on the extreme wrong side of history. 😢 Like the prologue says, Exodus was the Birth Of Freedom. Anyone against THAT needs to be cancelled, amirite. 😅
Nefertiri. Nefettiti was a different Queen of Egypt.
Nefertiti. I typo'd.
Exact. That's what I love about her. She loves Moses no matter what. Slave or Prince.
@@theprinceoftides6836 loves him enough to want him murdered in the end by the man who's heart she is now playing.
She is written as a Hollywood Vamp. The whole movie in the silent era was a celebration of the Hollywood Egypt of the 20 and this remake, along with the Cleopatra remake was celebrating themselves in gorgeous technicolor.
OMG !!! She did such a good job playing Nefertiti Yes now adays its camp but still her body language facial expressions work sooo well . Perfect type casting for this 1950s hollywood iconic epic . such an attractive woman with a wink and sense of humor 🙂
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