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Floyd King, an actor with Washington’s Shakespeare Theatre Company, in a one man show of songs, stories, recitations and other material related to Shakespeare’s life and work. The show Mad About the...
John Barrymore reads extracts from Richard II.
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...
US variety show hosted by Ed Sullivan. This episode includes includes an extract (5 min 45 secs) in which Orson Welles (in costume and make-up) performs Lear’s speech from IV, vii (`You do me wrong to take...
Arts and current affairs review show presented by Kirsty Wark. In this special edition live from the Edinburgh Festival a report (c 8 mins) on Asian Shakespeare where Wu Hsing-Kuo performs a one-man version...
Variety show. A conceit of the show was Wise’s confident presentation of amateurishly inept plays which often parodied historical television plays or films. Wise’s character would write a play, complete...
US interview show. This compilation brings together interviews on Shakespeare with Kenneth Branagh (discussing Macbeth), Stephen Fry (Twelfth Night), John Lithgow (King Lear) and Mark Rylance (Richard III...
Feature film. King Shahdov (Chaplin) is a deposed monarch exiled in New York without money. He becomes involved with Ann Kay (Addams) who hosts a television show, and soon becomes a celebrity. Befriending a...
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...
Radio variety show broadcast only in California, not nationally. This episode includes Welles reading from Richard II. The guest stars were Martha O’Driscoll and singer Ethel Waters but they but did not...
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