Cleopatra is a 1912 American silent historical drama film starring Helen Gardner in the title role and directed by Charles L. Gaskill, based on the 1890 play written by Victorien Sardou.

[4] In a series of elaborately staged tableaux, it depicts Cleopatra and her love affairs, first with handsome fisherman-slave Pharon, then with Mark Antony.

For the 1918 release, the Chicago Board of Censors required a cut of the two intertitles "If I let you live and love me ten days, will you then destroy yourself?"

[8] Literary and film critic Edward Wagenknecht reports that he had “much desired” to see Gardner’s 1912 six-reel production of Sardou’s Cleopatra when he was a 12-year-old boy.

[9] Not until 1961 did Wagenknecht have an opportunity to view the feature: I am sorry that it did not turn out to be worth waiting forty-nine years for, since Miss Gardner was as inexplicably bad in Cleopatra, in which she did an unsuccessful imitation of Sarah Bernhardt, as she was good in Vanity Fair (1911).