the famous funeral oratory, for his great assassinated friend, Julius Caesar, speaking his lines clearly and brilliantly, and surprising everybody yet again. Well, our movie has many assets beyond Marlon Brando. Julius Caesar was directed by Joseph Mankiewicz and boasts an all-star cast that includes James Mason, John Gielgud, Edmond O'Brien and Louis Calhern. And, for the first and only time in the same film, Greer Garson who, after ten years as the queen of the MGM studios, was on her way out, and Deborah Kerr, Garson's successor as MGM's first lady was even more solidly in. This was quite a defining film for Marlon Brando, particularly though. It showed everybody that Brando was indeed an actor capable of classical work as well as so-called kitchen-sink dramas which were so popular at that time. Well, here's the movie which MGM premiered in New York not in a regular cinema house, but a legit theater, just like a stage play. Here's Julius Caesar." Robert Osborne's closing comments "Hail Caesar! You know, since the works of William Shakespeare were never your ordinary sell in movie houses, the producer of this film, John Houseman, and its director, Joseph Mankiewicz, had to sell MGM on letting them make Caesar… Julius Caesar as a movie — convincing them that it would best be done by casting the film with star names — by also keeping the budget of the film very low. The sets, for example, were recycled from the MGM film Quo Vadis, which had been made two years earlier, in Rome, after which, many of its sets were sent back to Hollywood. After making this film, Greer Garson, who played Calpurnia, made one more film at MGM, called Her Twelve Men, then she left the studio after sixteen years in MGM's employ. She later had a great movie success and received another Academy Award nomination, seven years later, for a film she made at Warner Brothers, Sunrise at Campobello. For Deborah Kerr — Portia — her great days in films were just ahead. From Here to Eternity, The King and I, An Affair to Remember, Separate Tables and five more Oscar nominations for Deborah. But for us right now — more Brando. Joined again by John Gielgud, this time also with George C. Scott, Marthe Keller and Beatrice Straight." [the unnamed film is 1980's The Formula] See also List of historical drama films