Success in Hollywood is very fleeting. In the early 1950s, during what many considered to be Hollywood’s golden age, MGM, its most powerful and celebrated studio, which was delivering a series of popular and spectacular musicals, was actually on the verge of bankruptcy. Something very special was necessary for such a fate to be avoided, and that proved to be *Quo Vadis*, the 1951 biblical epic directed by Mervyn LeR…