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Reporter Elizabeth Kendrick interviews Paul Robeson and Mary Ure at the Stratford Memorial Theatre where they are about to open the season with Othello. Robeson and Mary Ure are in costume being interviewed...
Sound recording. Professor Stanley Wells delivers The Shakespeare Lecture at the 1987 Cheltenham Literature Festival. Wells discusses Shakespeare’s plays as retold by Charles and Mary Lamb, Mary Seymour,...
Documentary. Michael Wood tells the story of Shakespeare’s mother, Mary Arden in a time of revolution. Born during the reign of Henry VIII, Mary Arden was the daughter of a Warwickshire farmer, but...
Narration and readings by Maurice Evans with incidental music and songs by Mary Rodgers arranged and conducted by Jimmy Carroll. Contains passages from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, As You Like...
Panel discussion of two new productions for the 2001 New York City Opera season - Vincenzo Bellini’s Capuleti e Montecchi (The Capulets and the Montagues) and Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado. Opera...
Musical short. An early sound film using Lee De Forest’s sound film process and featuring a song from Gounod’s opera Romeo et Juliette sung by Otakar Marak and Mary Cavanova.
Radio talk show hosted by Margaret McBride. Guests are actress George Grace and actor Walter Hampden. Walter Hampden, the grandson of Edwin Booth, discusses playing Hamlet and keeping Shakespeare current and...
Radio variety show. In this episode Jack Benny and Mary Livingston attend the film premiere of Ronald Colman’s film A DOUBLE LIFE (1946) about an actor playing Othello. After the show they meet Ronald and...
Radio version of Shakespeare’s tragedy produced for broadcasting by Charles Lefeaux. With John Rye and Mary Miller in the title roles and Edith Evans as the Nurse.
Radio schools series that looks at prominent female figures from Shakespeare’s plays. Presented by J.C.Stobart and Mary Somerville.