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Tchaikovsky’s ballet choreographed by Robert Helpmann with scenery and costume by Leslie Hurry. The Royal Ballet is filmed in dress rehearsal on stage at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London in...
Leslie Hurry produced the stage designs for some 60 plays, operas and ballets between 1942 and his death in 1978. His first commission was Robert Helpmann’s ballet Hamlet and as a designer for the Royal...
British newsfilm. The auction of the Shakespeare Memorial Exhibition collection of over ninety items. A pen and ink sketch of Shakespeare by Pablo Picasso is auctioned and shown briefly. It fetched £1000....
Radio broadcast of Shakespeare’s play for schools. With Frank Denton, Leslie Gordon and others. No further information known (12/2007).
Feature propaganda film and a wartime sequel to The SCARLET PIMPERNEL (d. Harold Young, 1934) also starring Leslie Howard. In the weeks prior to the outbreak of the Second World War, an English archaeologist...
Radio production, directed and adapted by Brewster Morgan, of Much Ado About Nothing with Leslie Howard as Benedick and Rosalind Russell as Beatrice. Narrated by Conway Tearle.
Radio adaptation by Jeremy Mortimer. David Warner is Prospero, with Carl Prekopp as Ariel, Rose Leslie as Miranda and Don Warrington as Gonzalo. Music composed and performed by Devlin’s Violin Company.
Video recording of Timothy Douglas’ 2009 production of Much Ado About Nothing with Howard W. Overshown as Benedick and Rachel Leslie as Beatrice. Videotaped for WAPAVA by George Karseboom.
Illustrates direction, editing and acting, using a selection of MGM films from the 1930s. Includes an extract from George Cukor’s 1936 ROMEO AND JULIET with Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer.
Radio adaptation of Twelfth Night with Leslie French, Peggy Ashcroft and Thea Holme. Anthony Hulme performs as (narrative) Chorus. Music arranged by Elizabeth Poston, and played by the Aeolian string quartet.
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