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  1. Shakespeare’s Prophetic Soul (1944)

    A sound recording of Harley Granville-Barker reading from his own essay ‘My Prophetic Soul’ from his book ‘Prefaces to Shakespeare’. Recorded for Harvard University, Department of English.

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  2. Yellow Canary, The (1943 Film)

    Director
    Herbert Wilcox
    Producer
    Herbert Wilcox

    Feature film. Anna Neagle is a supposed Nazi sympathiser who is really British to the core and helps foil a German plot to blow up a harbour in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The film opens with two British air-raid...

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  3. In Which we Live; Being the Story of a Suit Told by Itself (1943 Film)

    Director
    Richard Massingham
    Producer
    Lewis Grant Wallace

    Propaganda short. Government information film on how to get maximum wear from a man’s suit, narrated by one such suit in the form of an autobiography. When the suit is being cut up to make clothes for the...

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  4. Voice That Thrilled the World, The (1943 Film)

    Director
    Jean Negulesco

    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...

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  5. Volunteer, The (1943 Film)

    Director
    Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger
    Producer
    Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger

    Propaganda short feature film. Fred is an inept but willing dresser to a famous actor (Richardson), who makes himself up to play Othello. The news of the invasion of Poland comes in, and (in Othello costume)...

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  6. Man in Grey, The (1943 Film)

    Director
    Leslie Arliss
    Producer
    Edward Black

    Feature film. Costume melodrama, told in flashback, and based on the novel by Lady Eleanor Smith. A gypsy fortune teller warns Regency beauty Clarissa that her friendship with downtrodden actress Hesther...

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  7. Time to Remember (1943 Radio)

    Radio drama about Shakespeare’s life broadcast to mark his birthday. No further information known (12/06).

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  8. Makacs Kata (1943 Film)

    Director
    Viktor Banky

    Feature film. Contemporary re-working of The Taming of the Shrew, Kate here being a multi-millionnaire heiress.

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  9. Makrancos Holgy (1943 Film)

    Director
    Emil Martonffy
    Producer
    Maria Hausz

    Feature film. A contemporary musical re-working of The Taming of the Shrew.

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  10. Barbary Coast, Part 2 (1943 Radio)

    Series
    Lone Ranger, The
    Director
    Charles D. Livingstone
    Producer
    George W. Trendle

    Radio series. In this episode about corruption on the Barbary Coast, the Lone Ranger is giving advice to his nephew, Dan, before sending him away to school. He begins ‘Years ago, a writer in England named...

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