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  1. Romeo in Rhythm (1940 Film)

    Director
    Rudolf Ising
    Producer
    Fred Quimby

    Cartoon. ‘The Black Crow Light Opera Company Presents Romeo and Juliet’. Swingin’ Romeo and Flat-Foot Juliet are two black crows who speak in African-American accents. They enact part of the balcony...

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  2. Bookworm Turns, The (1940 Film)

    Director
    Hugh Harman
    Producer
    Fred Quimby

    Cartoon featuring Bookworm, Dr Jeckyl and Crow. A copy of Macbeth comes to life as the three weird sisters are making their brew.

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  3. Will Shakespeare (1940 Radio)

    Producer
    Barbara Burnham

    Radio adaptation of the play which was originally written for the stage by British playwright Clemence Dane (1888-1965). The plot links Shakespeare and the ‘Dark Lady’ of the sonnets with the mysterious...

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  4. Otello (1940 Radio)

    Series
    Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts

    Verdi’s opera with Giovanni Martinelli in the title role. Ettore Panizza conducts the New York Metropolitan Opera and Chorus

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  5. Love’s Labour’s Lost (1940 Radio)

    Series
    Great Plays
    Director
    Charles Warburton

    Radio broadcast of Love’s Labour’s Lost with Whitford Kane and Jill Esmond.

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  6. Merry Wives of Windsor, The (1940 Radio)

    Series
    Great Plays
    Director
    Joseph Bell

    Radio broadcast of The Merry Wives of Windsor, adapted by Charles Newton with Walter Wilmer as Falstaff. The broadcast employed the conceit of having Shakespeare (William S. Rainey) as narrator.

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  7. Tempest, The (1940 Radio)

    Series
    Great Plays
    Director
    Blevins Davis

    Radio broadcast of The Tempest with Jessica Tandy as Miranda and Cedric Hardwicke as Prospero. Narrated by William S. Rainey.

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  8. Rudy Vallee Sealtest Show, The [19/12/1940] (1940 Radio)

    Series
    Rudy Vallee Sealtest Show, The
    Director
    Ed Gardner

    Radio variety show. This episode sets up a confrontation between John Barrymore as a stage veteran and Orson Welles as the new star of radio. The programme closes with a performance of IV iii from Julius...

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  9. Star-Crossed Lovers, The (1940 Radio)

    Series
    Theatre Time
    Director
    Andrew Allen

    Radio adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, heavily abridged, by Ben Lepkin and Tommy Tweed. No details of cast known (2007).

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  10. Taming of the Shrew, The (1940 Radio)

    Series
    Columbia Workshop
    Director
    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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