Eleanor Parker in Valley of the Kings

In 1954, Eleanor Parker made two outstanding adventure-romance films: The Naked Jungle with Charlton Heston and Valley of the Kings with Robert Taylor. Valley of the Kings re-teamed Eleanor Parker and Eleanor Parker following the 1952 film Above and Beyond (they would be paired onscreen again in 1955's Many Rivers to Cross) and the two have great chemistry here.

In Valley of the Kings, Eleanor Parker plays the daughter of a famous archaeologist who is following-up on her dead father's dreams of proving ties between Egyptology and biblical lore. She contacts Robert Taylor, a hardworking archaeologist (who she later finds was a protege of her father's), to begin searching for the tomb of Rahotep. All the while they are accompanied by Eleanor Parker's somewhat sinister husband (played by Carlos Thompson) as the action unfolds in the heart of Egypt.

Eleanor Parker and Carlos Thompson

Valley of the Kings in the newspapers

Here is a selection of contemporary newspaper materials concerning the 1954 film Valley of the Kings. Eleanor Parker and Robert Taylor starred in this adventure film set in Egypt and it was the second of three onscreen pairings of the two Hollywood stars (1952's Above and Beyond being the first and Many Rivers to Cross from 1955 being the third). One of the selling points for Valley of the Kings was the fact that the production actually went to Egypt to film (though assuredly much of it was filmed on soundstages back home).