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Paradise in Harlem (1939 Film)

Director

Joseph Seiden

Feature film. Set in 1930s Harlem, Lem Anderson (Frank Wilson) is a vaudeville actor who aspires to performing Shakespeare. One evening after a show he witnesses a notorious gangster’s murder. The...

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Cymbeline (1989 Video)

Director

JoAnne Akalaitis

Video recording of JoAnne Akalaitis’ production of Cymbeline for the 1989 New York Shakespeare Festival. George Bartenieff is Cymbeline and Joan Cusack is Imogen. Original music by Philip Glass.

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King John (1899 Film)

aka: Scene - ‘King John’ - Now Playing at Her Majesty’s Theatre, A Beerbohm Tree, The Great British Actor

Director

William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson

Four scenes from the Her Majesty’s Theatre production of King John, one of which survives. The descriptions quoted are from the copyright records in The National Archives: THE BATTLEFIELD NEAR ANGIERS -...

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Maquina Hamlet (Hamlet Machine) (2000 Video)

aka: Hamlet / Maschine

Director

Daniel Veronese; Emilio Garcia Wehbi; Ana Alvarado

A video recording of the avant garde work by Heiner Muller performed by the Argentinian company El Periferico de Objetos. Bruce Weber, reviewing the production for The New York Times, writes ‘the script is...

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Richard III (1955 Film)

Director

Laurence Olivier

Producer

Laurence Olivier

What makes this ‘gloriously watchable, now as then, is Oliver’s effortlessly virtuosic performance as Richard: imperious, ironic, bruttish, sometimes hysterical and never less than smirkingly...

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Laurence Olivier Presents King Lear (2002 Television)

Director

Michael Elliott

Producer

David Plowright

Television production of the play, set in the year 800 and staged entirely in Granada’s Manchester studio, and one of the few not based on a prior stage production. With music specially composed by Gordon...

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Richard II (1993 Video)

Director

Michael Kahn

A videorecording of the production of Richard II directed by Michael Kahn with Richard Thomas as Richard and Edward Gero as Bolingbroke.

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Film Stars Don’t die in Liverpool (2017)

Director

Paul McGuigan

Producer

Barbara Broccoli; Andrew Noble; Colin Vaines

Based on the memoir of the actor Peter Turner (played by Jamie Bell), Annette Bening plays the Hollywood movie star Gloria Grahame with whom Turner had a relationship during the latter period of her life....

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Falstaff’s Fur Coat (Film)

Series

Calling Scotland Yard

Director

Paul Dickson

Producer

Edward J. Danziger; Harry Lee Danziger

Police detective-crime anthology series. Because of his luxurious fur coat, a hammy actor becomes involved with crooks. His coat resembles the one that a gang’s fence wears, and he is continually finding...

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Macbeth (1981 Television)

Director

Sarah Caldwell; Kirk Browning

Producer

Richmond Crinkley

A recording of the stage play which ran from 23 January-8 March 1981 at the Lincoln Centre for the Performing Arts, New York City and was transmitted by ARTS cable channel on 6 Decembe 1981. Directed for the...

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