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  1. Macbeth (1949 Television)

    Series
    Philco Television Playhouse
    Director
    Gerry Simpson; Owen Davis
    Producer
    Harold McGee

    Television production of Macbeth. A recording of the live television performance of the New York City Players Club production in the Folger Library. Directed on stage by Anthony Brown and Owen Davis, and for...

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  2. Julius Caesar (1945 Film)

    Series
    Famous Scenes from Shakespeare
    Director
    Henry Cass
    Producer
    Sydney Box

    Excerpts produced for a school audience. Shows Mark Antony and Brutus in the Forum following Caesar’s murder (III ii). The London Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Muir Matheson.

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  3. Phantom of 42nd Street, The (1945 Film)

    Director
    Albert Herman
    Producer
    Albert Herman

    Feature film. Theatre critic Tony Wooldrich (O’Brien) and his sidekick cab driver Romeo with a penchant for quoting Shakespeare (Mulhall) investigate a backstage murder apparently linked to Shakespearean...

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  4. Romeo y Julieta (1943 Film)

    Director
    Miguel M. Delgado
    Producer
    Jacques Gelman; Santiago Reachi

    Feature film. A farce parodying Romeo and Juliet (and strongly referencing Cukor’s 1936 film version) starring Cantinflas, the celebrated Mexican comedian (real name Mario Moreno). Lanier (op cit) notes...

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  5. As You Like It (1936 Film)

    Director
    Paul Czinner

    Feature film. Great Britain’s first feature-length Shakespeare sound film and Laurence Olivier’s first screen performance in a Shakespeare play. An energetic production set in an elaborate studio forest...

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  6. Hamlet Screen Tests (1933 Film)

    Director
    Margaret Carington; Robert Edmond Jones

    John Barrymore was approached in 1933 to make a film version of Hamlet. Although he had played the role many times on stage, the production company asked for a screen test, perhaps because of rumours that...

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  7. 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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  8. Taming of the Shrew, The (1923 Film)

    Series
    Gems of Literature
    Director
    Edwin J. Collins
    Producer
    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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  9. Marcantonio e Cleopatra (1913 Film)

    aka: Antony and Cleopatra

    Director
    Enrico Guazzoni

    Feature film loosely based on Shakespeare’s play which was praised for its lavish costumes, spectacular sets, and ambitious special effects.

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  10. Life and Death of King Richard III (1912 Film)

    aka: Richard Iii Mr Frederick Warde in Shakespeare’s Masterpiece ‘The Life and Death of King Richard’.

    Director
    James Keane
    Producer
    M.B. Dudley

    Feature film version of Richard III produced as a vehicle for the 19th-century stage tragedian Frederick Warde.

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