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Romeo & Juliet

Date released

1 Sep 1921

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

13

NoS ID

330637

Story no

3 / 3

NoS synopsis: John Gielgud and Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies in Romeo & Juliet at the Regent Theatre, London.

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John Gielgud: An Actor’s Life (1989 Video)

aka: Sir John Gielgud

Director

Dave Heather

Producer

John Miller

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Video cassette. VHS. col. 100 min.

A two-part profile of Sir John Gielgud in which he reflects with John Miller on his career and the influences of other actors, directors, designers and playwrights. Illustrated with scenes from plays, films...

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Gielgud’s Letters (2004 Audio, Radio)

Series

Book of the Week

Producer

Emma Harding

First episode in a five-part series of selected readings from John Gielgud’s correspondences through the decades. The episode focuses on Gielgud playing the lead in the 1936 production of Hamlet on...

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John Gielgud at the BBC (2000 Audio)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, 2 audiocassettes. 180 min., 2000 sale: £9.99 (inclusive)

Extracts of John Gielgud’s radio performances, collected from the BBC Archive. Includes ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ with Edith Evans, ‘Arms and the Man’, ‘Richard II’, ‘Measure for...

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A Presentation Novelty. Romeo And Juliet. As performed at the Regent Theatre, London

Date released

17 Jul 1924

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

163

NoS ID

334621

Story no

1 / 5

Pathe Intertitles - "Romeo and Juliet - the very words conjure up a picture of the immortal balcony scene, when the lovers declared their passion - Romeo - John Gielgud; Juliet - Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies.

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Antigone (1986)

Director

Don Taylor

Subject

Classical studies; Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 110 minutes), $7.49 (MediaOutlet)

A modern translation by Don Taylor of Sophacles’ tragedy depicting the individual conscience in conflict with tyranny. Antigone (Juliet Stevenson), the daughter of Oedipus, defies a royal edict when one of...

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Theatre

Date released

1958

Series name

Topic

Issue no

2

NoS ID

329652

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: Joan and Julius Evans, an American couple touring in Britain, through meeting an aspiring actress from RADA (The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) in London, learn many things about the British...

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Frankenstein: The True Story (2014)

Director

Jack Smight

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 181 minutes), £15.99

This made-for- television film, which was first broadcast in 1973, was co-scripted by Christoper Isherwood, and features a heavyweight cast, including John Gielgud, James Mason and Ralph Richardson. Less...

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TV Dante, A: ‘The Inferno’ Cantos I-Viii (1989 Video)

Director

Peter Greenaway; Tom Philips

Producer

Kees Kasander; Denis Wigman

Subject

English language and literature; Italian studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 90 min., £15.99 (inc. VAT)

A dramatisation using state-of-the-art visual techniques of Dante’s vision of hell, where figures from Dante’s own time mix with mythological and biblical characters as they suffer for their sins. Dante...

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Great Shakespeareans (1982 Audio)

Collected excerpts of recordings made between 1890-1937. AS YOU LIKE IT: Ben Greet reads Act II Scene i; John Gielgud reads Act II Scene vii. HAMLET: John Barrymore reads Act II Scene ii; Johnston...

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