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2-disc set. See individual entries on this database for full details of cast and credits. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (1935). d. Dierterle. Commentary by film historian Scott Hamilton. Olivia de Havilland...
Short. Biography of Shakespeare highlighting the various jobs he worked at in the theatre. Filmed as a promotion piece to the forthcoming MGM production ROMEO AND JULIET (1936) directed by Cukor.
Radio variety show. This episode parodies Cukor’s feature film ROMEO AND JULIET (1936) using the balcony scene with verbal gags and slapstick business to parody and comment on the high-minded tone of the...
Radio broadcast. Written and arranged in Elizabethan English by Herbert Farjeon, Radio Times announces this programme as being an "impression - a conjecture - a shot in the dark at what listeners might have...
Feature film. Great Britain’s first feature-length Shakespeare sound film and Laurence Olivier’s first screen performance in a Shakespeare play. An energetic production set in an elaborate studio forest...
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.
Film of principal events of E. P. Ray’s Mayoralty (1936-1937), comprising: Coronation celebrations, 1937, Shakespeare Sunday scenes in garden of Shakespeare’s Birthplace, AGM of Shakespeare Birthplace...
Compilation of extracts from fiction films held in the BFI National Archive, London showing changes in theatrical acting styles as recorded on film. Shakespeare titles include RICHARD III (1911), HAMLET...
Shakespeare’s play adapted for broadcasting by Felix Felton from the production at the New Theatre, Oxford, directed by John Gielgud and Glen Byam Shaw. The cast includes David King-Wood as Richard, John...
Radio broadcast of Tikhon Khrennikov’s Suite from Much Ado About Nothing.
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