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Variety show, presented by Louella Parsons, showcasing stars from recent movies. In each episode there was a 20 minute dramatic segment adapting a recent film. In this episode Norma Shearer and Edna May...
Illustrates direction, editing and acting, using a selection of MGM films from the 1930s. Includes an extract from George Cukor’s 1936 ROMEO AND JULIET with Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer.
Feature film. A lavish and reverential adaptation of Shakespeare’s play with Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer in the title roles.
Play adapted from Robert Nye’s novel. A portrait of Shakespeare seen through the eyes of his wife, Anne Hathaway. Anne gives an account of the week she first visited William in London, a tale of...
Radio broadcast. As part of this world entertainment review programme, Basil Rathbone introduces George Cukor’s new film ROMEO AND JULIET (1936). His talk is illustrated by a recorded excerpt of a scene...
An evening of folk and tap dancing, narrated by Leroy Meyers, and performed by Charles ‘Cookie’ Cook and friends, with Pat Cannon’s Foot and Fiddle Dance Company and Norma Miller’s Swinging at the...
Radio drama. A version of Macbeth written by John Wells and reduced to 13 minutes. The play was written for the Edinburgh Festival and the action, takes place in a BBC studio in Edinburgh in front of a...
Television version of of the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival Company’s As You Like It directed by Phillip R. Enoch with Ann Murray as Rosalind. Commentary by Dr Frank C. Baxter.
An Elizabethan detective story written by Eric Barber in which Shakespeare unravels the mystery surrounding the death of Marlowe in a tavern brawl. Includes a scene in the inn at Deptford in which...
Feature film. Jack Benny and Conrad Nagel host a musical revue of MGM acts, including Joan Crawford, Laurel and Hardy and Buster Keaton. Includes a skit (c 6 mins) on Romeo and Juliet, where John Gilbert and...
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