RMS Queen Elizabeth Queen Elizabeth to safely rest on the bed of the Intracoastal Waterway in Ft. Lauderdale harbour (Port Everglades) and remain open, but instead the vessel was towed out of the harbour to Asia to become a floating university. Losing money and forced to close after being declared a fire hazard, this was due to the ship being sold at auction in 1970 to Hong Kong tycoon Tung Chao Yung. Tung, the head of the Orient Overseas Line, intended to convert the vessel into a university for the World Campus Afloat program (later reformed and renamed as Semester at Sea). Following
Elizabeth the Queen (1968 film) before in New York and received poor reviews but insisted the production was faulty rather than the play itself. Charlton Heston agreed to co star. Elizabeth the Queen (1968 film) Elizabeth the Queen is a 1968 TV movie. It is an adaptation of the play "Elizabeth the Queen". In 1964 George Schaefer said he had decided not to do a production of this or another Maxwell Anderson play, "Mary Queen of Scot", because they depended on pageantry, which was hard to do on television. Schaefer changed his mind and Judith Anderson signed to star in a production in May 1967.