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Documentary short. A history of sound films focusing on Warner Brothers productions, including John Barrymore delivering a speech as Richard, Duke of Gloucester. Credited as being from Richard III but...
4: The final phase, recording the siege of Naha, the American pounding of the city followed by a house-by-house advance.
Feature film. In wartime Africa, watched by the Nazis, refugees bargain with crooks and police officials to obtain passports to freedom. From the play by Murray Burnett and Jean Alison.
Cartoon of an amateur talent contest in a local theatre, which includes, among other entrants, an operatic penguin, a fox reciting Shakespeare, two chickens (one with a Katharine Hepburn voice) performing...
Screwball comedy. Actors Basil Underwood (Howard) and Joyce Arden (Bette Davis) have postponed their marriage eleven times. Henry Grant’s fiancée Macia is infatuated with Basil. At Henry’s request Basil...
Feature film comedy. David Garrick, the legendary 18th-century English actor, accepts an invitation to the Comédie Française in Paris, announcing that he’ll teach them the art of acting. When they hear...
Musical short. Created as a tie-in for Dieterle and Reinhardt’s A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (1935) the film imagines a hybrid between Shakespeare and swing music. An assistant director is told to read all...
A film based on the Broadway production by Max Reinhardt. A combination of German expressionism and Hollywood realism. Hal Mohr’s cinematography is ‘astonishing, a surreal visual fantasy of dancing...
A ten-minute sequence in one of Hollywood’s first talking pictures shows John Barrymore reciting Gloucester’s soliloquy from Henry VI. Part 3. Probably the first Shakespeare scene in a talking picture.
THE JAZZ SINGER was heralded as the first feature-length film with synchronized dialogue and musical sequences. The movie, which brought Broadway superstar Al Jolson "alive" and seemingly singing from the...
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