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Film adaptation of As You Like It.
Fiction film based on The Merchant of Venice in which the daughter of a pious Jew steals money from her father and elopes with her lover who has been borrowing from Shylock. Shylock’s pursuit of his...
Condensed version of The Taming of the Shrew concentrating on the wooing and winning of Katharina by Petruchio. Ball (op cit. p. 286) is underwhelmed by the film finding the camera stationary, the acting too...
An adaptation by Kenelm Foss of As You Like It, directed by Maurice Elvey with Elizabeth Risdon as Rosalind. The production, in modern dress, follows Shakespeare’s plot quite closely and places the action...
Fiction short. Alice Day is Juliet in a rustic stage performance of Romeo and Juliet. Ball notes ‘I wish I had seen, a Mack Sennett Romeo and Juliet with the hilariously cross-eyed Ben Turpin as Romeo. In...
Fiction film issued by Kalem in a two-reel instalment. The first is a story about an actress (Joyce) who is in love with an actor (Moore) and includes two stage scenes at least one of which the actress...
Fiction film. Richard III with William V. Ranous directing himself in the title role.
Fiction short. The Merchant of Venice directed by Barry O’Neill and adapted by Lloyd Lonergan and Gertrude Thanhauser. William J. Bowman is Shylock.
Abbreviated version of the play directed by Mario Caserini with Amleto Novelli as Hamlet.
A version of The Merchant of Venice. Ball surmises that Shylock may have been played by William V. Ranous who probably directed. The Moving Picture World (January 9 1909) noted ‘An ambitious film. The...
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