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Radio variety show. In this edition the guest, Charles Laughton, coaches the series host Al Jolson in the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet. The jokes revolve around Laughton’s British accent and...
Television series of filmed classics. Charles Laughton recites from the Bible and other texts, reads poetry, tells stories and jokes including a reading from Twelfth Night (II iv).
Broadcast version of Shakespeare’s play performed by the Old Vic Company produced by Tyrone Guthrie. With Charles Laughton and Flora Robson as the Macbeths. Dennis Arundell narrates. Music by Herbert Menges.
Radio variety show broadcast only in California, not nationally. This episode includes an enactment of the quarrel scene from Julius Caesar with Welles as Brutus and Charles Laughton as Cassius.
A version made for American television, but not transmitted, of Peter Hall’s 1959 staging of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Charles Laughton as Bottom and Vanessa Redgrave as Helena.
A televised recording (although never transmitted) for NBC of Peter Hall’s 1959 staging of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. The production is prefaced by a short Prologue...
Radio variety show broadcast only in California, not nationally. This episode includes Welles performing a scene from Romeo and Juliet with guest Hans Conried.
Radio variety show broadcast only in California, not nationally. This episode includes Welles reading from the last act of Macbeth. The guest star was Carol Landis but she did not participate in any...
Radio variety show broadcast only in California, not nationally. This episode includes Welles reading the ‘unto the King’ speech (IV i) from Henry V. Lucille Ball was the guest star but did not...
Radio variety show broadcast only in California, not nationally. This episode includes Welles performing soliloquies from Richard II. The guest star was Susan Hayward but she did not participate in any...
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