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- D.W. Griffith
Fiction film version of The Taming of the Shrew directed by D.W. Griffith with Florence Lawrence as Kate and Arthur Johnson as Petruchio. The film omits the Christopher Sly framing and much reduces the...
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aka: Taming of the Shrew, The
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- Henri Desfontaines
Fiction short. A version of The Taming of the Shrew.
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Fiction film. A record of the F.R. Benson Company’s stage production of The Taming of the Shrew at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre.
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aka: Taming of the Shrew, The
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- Arturo Ambrosio
A version of The Taming of the Shrew which follows the principal action quite closely but eliminates the induction and the scenes with Bianca’s lovers.
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aka: Modern Taming of the Shrew, A
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- Reginald Barker
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- Thomas H. Ince
Feature film. Octavia is a rich society beauty living in New York. Her grandfather, a mining magnate, sends her to Alaska fearing that she is about to marry a foolish city boy. There she meets Chuck...
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Experimental short film. The wooing scene from The Taming of the Shrew in which the actors spoke the complete text, a primitive sound process known as Voxograph. Ball (op cit) writes ‘When it was presented...
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- John B. O’Brien
Silent feature film. Catherine is the spirited, feminist daughter of a wealthy banker. She meets John Henry at a Yale University dinner and he, having read The Taming of the Shrew, resolves to tame her. He...
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- Robert G. Vignola
Feature film comedy. Ethel Hoyt (Davies), the only child of wealthy parents, surrounds herself with six young college men and spends her time dancing and dining with them, causing her parents to become...
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aka: Var en Gång, Det
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- Carl Theodor Dreyer
Feature film based on a popular Danish nationalistic play from 1887, with a storyline that blends Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale "The Swineherd" with Shakespeare’s "The Taming of the Shrew". The...
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Radio broadcast in which Mr Eastman, Mme. Thomas, and Mme M. Dawson perform scenes from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet. Mr Eastman also performs scenes from Henry VIII and The Taming of the Shrew.
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- Edwin J. Collins
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- Edward Godal
Condensed version of The Taming of the Shrew concentrating on the wooing and winning of Katharina by Petruchio. Ball (op cit. p. 286) is underwhelmed by the film finding the camera stationary, the acting too...
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Shakespeare-themed radio programme. Orchestral music, mainly by Mendelssohn, Germain and Sullivan, with old and modern settings of Shakespearean lyrics followed by passages from The Taming of the Shrew....
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Eight in a series of ‘literary nights’ showcasing Shakespeare’s plays on radio. The programme is conducted with critical commentary by Professor Cyril Brett. Performances are by members of the Cardiff...
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aka: Shakespeare in Story and Music
Radio broadcast. The actor duo William Macready and Edna Godfrey-Turner recite excerpts from Shakespeare’s plays:
Henry VIII - Cardinal Wolsey’s Farewell
As You Like It - The Seven Ages of Man
Macbeth -...
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Tenth in a series of short dramatic recitals in which well-known actresses perform extracts from Shakespeare’s plays. With Madge Titheradge as Katherine in extracts of The Taming of the Shrew II i, IV iii,...
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- Howard Rose
Radio adaptation of the play by Dulcima Glasby. Abridged, arranged and produced by Howard Rose. With Barbara Couper as Kate and Ian Fleming as Petruchio. Reginald Denham narrates.
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- 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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- 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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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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Three scenes from Shakespeare’s plays open a programme that also features Edwin Lewis’s ‘Sea Silence’. The Shakespearean scenes comprise: Richard III (I ii and iii) and The Taming of the Shrew (II...
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aka: Hello Everybody
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- Adrian Brunel
- Producer
- Walter C. Mycroft
Feature film variety revue. A collection of party pieces by a host of British variety stars (Will Fyffe, Cicely Courtneidge, Jack Hulbert, Tommy Handley). Throughout there is a running gag with Donald...
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Schools radio broadcast. Dramatic reading of scenes from Shakespeare’s comedy. With Andrew Churchman and Barbara Couper.
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- Howard Rose
Radio version of Shakespeare’s play, arranged in 13 scenes by Dulcima Glasby, produced by Howard Rose. With Barbara Couper as Kate and Francis James as Petruchio.
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- Monty Banks
Musical comedy updating The Taming of the Shrew. Pamela Beren (Thelma Todd) is beautiful and spoilt, ferocious and shrewish, her fiery nature causing fear in her father, brother and the servants. Tom Daly, a...
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- Barbara Burnham
Radio schools broadcast. Dramatic readings from Shakespeare’s play with a short introduction to scenes used as the basis of an English literature lesson for 11-14 year old schoolchildren.
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- Peter Creswell
Godfrey Tearle and Mary Hinton perform as Petruccio and Kate in this radio version of the play adapted for radio and produced by Peter Creswell. With incidental music played by the BBC Variety Orchestra...
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- Director
- Forrest Barnes
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- John Barrymore
An NBC radio recording of The Taming of the Shrew with John Barrymore as Petruchio.
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- Brewster Morgan
Radio adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew by Gilbert Seldes who also narrates. Edward G. Robinson is Petruchio and Frieda Inescort is Katherina.
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- Dr. Day
A film made by Dr Day depicting aspects of the Mundesley Sanatorium in Norfolk. A brief scene shows an open-air performance of The Taming of the Shrew watched by the patients.
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- Tom Walls
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- Max Schach
Feature film comedy. Victor Garnett (Walls) a rich bachelor marries wealthy, spoilt and shrewish Patricia Lynton (Jane Baxter) whereupon he tries to mould her into his ideal woman. Enraged by Victor’s...
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- Joe Ainley
Radio comedy anthology series. This episode
is about a bridegroom who makes the mistake of using The Taming of the Shrew as a guidebook for a happy marriage.
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- Ernst Lubitsch
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- Ernst Lubitsch
Romantic comedy feature film. Michael Brandon (Cooper) is a millionaire who enjoys getting married but has difficulty staying married: he’s had seven wives and is looking for number eight. He thinks he may...
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aka: Catherine and Petruchio
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- Dallas Bower
- Producer
- Dallas Bower
Televised version of the play as adapted by David Garrick in 1758. In contrast to the original, Garrick’s play has no Induction and merely a simplified subplot. Focusing on the Katherine-Petruchio story,...
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Radio broadcast of The Taming of the Shrew adapted from Angus Bowmer’s stage production. In 1939, OSF took the production to the Golden Gate Exposition in San Francisco, California and the broadcast arises...
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- Phil Cohen (2)
Radio broadcast. A musical version of The Taming of the Shrew written especially for Columbia Workshop. Few of Shakespeare’s lines survive in the modern dialogue. Carleton Young and Nan Sunderland play...
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- Charles Warburton
Radio broadcast of The Taming of the Shrew adapted by Randall McDougall with Grace Coppin and Herbert Rudley as Katherina and Petruchio.
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- Peter Creswell
Radio version of Shakespeare’s comedy, arranged for broadcasting and produced by Peter Creswell. The cast includes Fay Compton as Kate and Godfrey Tearle as Petruchio. No further information available...
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aka: Taming of the Shrew, The
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- Ferdinando Maria Poggioli
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- Angelo Mosco; Nicola Naracci
Feature film. A loose re-working of The Taming of the Shrew directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli with Amedeo Nazzari as Petruchio and Lila Silvi as Katherine.
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- Viktor Banky
Feature film. Contemporary re-working of The Taming of the Shrew, Kate here being a multi-millionnaire heiress.
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- Emil Martonffy
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- Maria Hausz
Feature film. A contemporary musical re-working of The Taming of the Shrew.
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- Leslie Goodwins
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- Albert J. Cohen
Musical comedy. A Shakespeare professor secretly works as a burlesque comedian during the summer. He maintains his secret until a stripper shows up and threatens to tell his secret unless he gives her a...
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aka: Woman in Love
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- Emilio Fernandez
- Producer
- Benito Alazraki Franco
Feature film loosely based on The Taming of the Shrew and Count Lucanor by Juan Manuel. Set during the Revolution of Juarez, the film opens in the town of Cholula, which has been seized by rebel forces. The...
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Two-part schools broadcast of scenes of Shakespeare’s comedy, adapted for radio by Silvia Goodall. Part 1 consits of readings of Act II i and III ii; part 2 features Act IV i, IV iii and iv and V ii. No...
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aka: The Old Vic at Edinburgh
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- Ayton Whitaker
This special Old Vic number in the series includes a talk on the theatre by Ralph Richardson and pre-recorded scenes from John Burrell’s Edinburgh Festival theatre production of The Taming of the Shrew...
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- Homer Fickett
Radio adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew. Directed by Homer Fickett with Burgess Meredith as Petruchio and Joyce Redman as Katherina.
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- Paul Nickell
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- Worthington Miner
A production of The Taming of the Shrew, with a heavily cut text, set in the 1950s.
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- Paul Tripp; Worthington Miner
Children’s television series. Paul Tripp, as Mr I. (a gentle train engineer), takes children in his train to Imagination Land where they live out fantasies. In this episode Mr I. takes Donny to fulfill his...
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- Director
- Andre van Gyseghem
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- William Hughes
Radio broadcast. The Nottingham Playhouse Company perform extracts from their current production of Shakespeare’s comedy under the direction of Andre van Gyseghem. With George Hagan as Petruchio and Ursula...
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- Donald Wolfit
Radio broadcast. Excerpts from Shakespeare’s play (I iv) are performed by Donald Wolfit and his touring company.
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- Desmond Davis
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- Desmond Davis
Televised studio production of the play adapted for screen by Barbara Nixon with Margaret Johnston as Katherina and Stanley Baker as Petruchio.
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