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Screwball courtroom comedy with songs. Showgirl Peggy Harper (Hutton) is engaged to lawyer Oliver Clarke (Tufts), She is a compulsive liar and admits falsely to the murder of her producer-boss Wallace Brent...
A talk by Professor Errol Hill based on his book of the same title (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1984). The book charts the struggle of Afro-American actors, first as exiles, then in the...
Feature film. Rex Whittington (Heggie) is an ageing and alcoholic Shakespearean actor, depressed after being offered only a spear-carrier role in a movie. When he is arrested his loving niece, Ginger,...
Comedy romance feature film. James Flanagan, a 53 year-old New York cab driver, is an aspiring Shakespearean actor. He is troubled by thoughts of his father, who died of alcohol abuse when James was a...
Episode 5 (Series 1) of the comedy sketch show contains a two-minute skit on "The Mind of a Shakespearean Actor". It reproduces the interior monologue of an actor who is performing Macbeth at the theatre.
Feature film. Gambler Dan Milner (Robert Mitchum) accepts $5,000 to fly to a remote resort in Mexico for purposes undisclosed. On arrival, Dan finds the ostensibly rich, carefree guests all playing...
In this episode of the radio series the Shakespearean actor, director and scholar Harley Granville-Barker explains why (in his opinion) Shakespeare cannot be interpreted on the screen, and can be interpreted...
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Rebecca Sheir talks ‘original pronunciation’ (OP) with Shakespearean actor Ben Crystal and his father, linguist David Crystal, one of the world’s...
Feature film. A comedic melodrama telling the story of a love triangle between a vaudeville knife-thrower, his target girl and a hammy Shakespearean actor.
Spaghetti western. Travelling Shakespearean actor and gunman Joe Clifford (Steffen) inherits a gold mine from his uncle. Returning to claim the mine, he finds town boss Berg, his uncle’s murderer, controls...
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