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  1. Shakespeare was Right (1930 Film)

    Vitaphone short. Shakespeare is brought to trial in the modern day to defend his plays against a charge of dullness. His characters come to life in the Jazz Age to show they belong there, with snappy...

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  2. Show of Shows (1929 Film)

    Director
    John Adolfi

    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.

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  3. Hollywood Revue of 1929, The (1929 Film)

    Director
    Charles Riesner

    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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  4. Othello (1929 Radio)

    Director
    Jack Gilmore

    Radio drama. A local production by Vancouver station CNRV, featuring the CNVR players. No further details known (2007).

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  5. Romeo and Juliet (1929 Radio)

    Series
    Radio Guild
    Director
    Vernon Radcliffe

    Radio broadcast of Romeo and Juliet directed by Vernon Radcliffe. No details of cast known (2007).

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  6. Taming of the Shrew, The (1929 Film)

    Director
    Sam Taylor

    Feature film version of the play and the first sound film to attempt a full version of a Shakespeare play. Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks as Kate and Petruchio.

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  7. Broadway Fever (1929 Film)

    Director
    Edward F. Cline

    Feature film comedy concerning a housemaid who impersonates a leading lady in a Broadway production and woos the producer. While she is dusting she acts out lines from Romeo and Juliet.

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  8. Framing of the Shrew, The (1929 Film)

    Director
    Arvid E. Gillstrom

    Fiction short. Privacy Robson, a weak man, takes advice from his friend Florian and decides to tame his feisty wife. He initiates divorce proceedings, pretends to have a girlfriend, and refuses to eat...

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  9. Hamlet (1929 Radio)

    Series
    Play to Schools

    Shakespeare’s play broadcast for schools. With Robert Speaight in the title role and Phyllis Konstam as Ophelia.

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  10. Taming of the Shrew, The (1929 Radio)

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    Play to Schools

    Radio broadcast of Shakespeare’s play for schools. With Barbara Couper, Tyrone Guthrie and others. No further information known (12/2007).

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