Trivia: The film held the record for highest-grossing Biblical movie for 48 years, until it was finally surpassed by "The Passion of the Christ" in 2004.
Trivia: The baby Moses was played by Fraser Heston, Charlton Heston's son.
Trivia: Even though Martha Scott played Charlton Heston's mother in this film, she was only 11 years older than Heston.
Trivia: Future famous musician Herb Alpert has a cameo as a drummer boy during the massive Exodus scene.
Trivia: The narrator of the film is actually the director, Cecil B. DeMille.
Trivia: To promote this film, MGM donated 2,000 replicas of the Stone Tablets to local civic organizations, to be placed in front of courthouses and the like. To this day, they remain controversial, the subject of an intense church-and-state debate.
Trivia: Some of the props used in the film - in particular cups, glasses and tableware - were used in the episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987) called "Tapestry".
Trivia: The voice of God giving the Ten Commandments is a chorus of several male voices including, principally, Charlton Heston's and Cecil B.DeMille's, recorded separately with one track laid on top of the other and altered electronically. The other voices in the chorus were those of actor and singer Delos Jewkes and Donald Hayne, DeMille's publicist/biographer.
Answer: She was a woman scorned. Yes, she loved Moses, but Moses turned his life away from the royal life of Egypt (and Nefertiri's love) to be with his people, the Hebrews, and serve the will of God. These were far more important reasons to Moses than living a lush life as a prince of a people he was not connected to by blood or lineage.
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