OT (I think) Cleopatra's bath

[Dr. Whom]

Hi

I am trying to find out who started the myth that Cleopatra bathed in milk (she didn't, Nero's mother Poppaea did, somewhere along the line they got confused).  Do any of know whether Theda Bara had a milk bath as Cleopatra?

[Herodotus]

Poppaea was Nero's wife whom he eventually kicked to death when she was pregnant. Aggripina was Nero's mother, whom he murdered and she was the sister of Cailugla and the wife of her uncle Claudius. According to Suetionous she did her uncle, her brother and her son! However, Tacitus never mentions her doing Nero.
  Claudett Colbert took a milk bath  in Cecil B. DeMille's Sign of the Cross (1932). That was the  scene, in DeMille's Bible film, with someovert lesbian overtones in it.
 

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[Dr. Whom]

Sorry, my mistake, wife, of course. Pliny actually says so. Claudette Colbert was playing Poppaea, so everything is OK as far as that is concerned. My question is who made the transfer to Cleopatra?

[Shadowphile]

Milk Marketing Board.

Likely Elizabeth Taylor had something to do with it....

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

Caludette Colbert did it (mocked up, I'm sure) in Cecil B. Demille's The Sign of the Cross.  Thats predates Liz Taylor by a bit.  
Um, Egypt is a hot place.  Wouldn't ol' Cleo be a bit redolent of cheese after a bit?
-Ed