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Why was I, Claudius never completed?
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The production of the 1937 film I, Claudius, directed by Josef von Sternberg and based on the Robert Graves novel, was permanently halted after the film's star, Merle Oberon, sustained a severe facial injury in a traffic accident. Consequently, the project was never completed.1