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Podcast. Pamela Hutchinson talks to Barbara Bogaev about the life and career of actress Asta Nielsen and her 1921 film version of Hamlet (qv), which depicted the title character as a princess.
Feature film about Edmund Kean adapted from the play Kean by Alexandre Dumas père. The film makes reference to Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and Othello and adds the death scene from Romeo and Juliet.
Fiction short based on Julius Caesar which largely follows the main events of the play from the death of Caesar to the death of Brutus. Guazzoni remade the story for Cines in 1914 for the feature length...
Fiction short. Version of Romeo and Juliet.
Fiction short. A version of Romeo and Juliet which is a record of the stage production at the Lyceum; Godfrey Tearle is Romeo and his wife, Mary Malone, is Juliet.
A version of The Winter’s Tale. Cines’ press material reads ‘a magnificent series of pictures dealing with episodes in Shakespeare’s wonderful tragedy. Acted in the most perfect manner, amid scenes...
Fiction short. A version of Hamlet.
Silent fiction film. Abbreviated version of the The Merry Wives of Windsor concentrating on the basket scene.
Ball (op cit) writes, taking the information from the Wiesbaden brochure, "Deutsche Vitascope made a brief sound film of Romeo and Juliet with Luisa Tettrazzini as Juliet. This was perhaps a presentation of...
Comedy short featuring a character called Bumke. An ambitious but inept actor makes himself ridiculous by playing the part of Othello on the stage. He has to flee when the audience becomes outraged.
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