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  1. Presenting Lily Mars (1943 Film)

    Director
    Norman Taurog
    Producer
    Joseph Pasternak

    Musical comedy about Lily (Judy Garland), an aspiring actress from a small town in Indiana. In once scene Lily wants to impress a visiting Broadway producer (Heflin) and gives him a mawkish and melodramatic...

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  2. Life and Death of King John, The (1942 Radio)

    aka: King John

    Director
    Rupert Lucas

    CBC radio broadcast. King John directed and adapted by Rupert Lucas, John Carradine as King John.

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  3. 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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  4. Falstaff in Wien (1940 Film)

    aka: Falstaff in Vienna

    Director
    Leopold Hainisch

    A musical set in old Vienna about the composer Otto Nicolai, who wrote Die Lustige Weiber von Windsor, based on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. The film incorporates some of Nicolai’s music...

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  5. Four Feathers, The (1939 Film)

    Director
    Zoltan Korda
    Producer
    Alexander Korda

    War film melodrama on the theme of heroism and celebration of empire based on the novel by A.E.W. Mason. Henry Faversham, son of a war hero, resigns his military commission just before his company is to...

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  6. Henry IV (1937 Radio)

    Series
    Columbia Shakespeare Cycle
    Producer
    Brewster Morgan

    US radio version of Henry IV, the adaptation includes both parts but heavily favours Part 1 and the comic scenes. Produced by Brewster Morgan and narrated by Conway Tearle. Walter Huston as Henry and...

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  7. Much Ado About Nothing (1937 Radio)

    Series
    Columbia Shakespeare Cycle
    Director
    Brewster Morgan

    Radio production, directed and adapted by Brewster Morgan, of Much Ado About Nothing with Leslie Howard as Benedick and Rosalind Russell as Beatrice. Narrated by Conway Tearle.

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  8. Master Will Shakespeare (1936 Film)

    Director
    Jacques Tourneur

    Short. Biography of Shakespeare highlighting the various jobs he worked at in the theatre. Filmed as a promotion piece to the forthcoming MGM production ROMEO AND JULIET (1936) directed by Cukor.

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  9. Lustigen Weiber, Die (1936 Film)

    aka: Merry Wives of Windsor, The

    Director
    Carl Hoffmann

    Feature film. An operatic version of The Merry Wives of Windsor. The lyrics are by Willy Dehmel.

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  10. Shake, Mr. Shakespeare (1936 Film)

    Director
    Roy Mack

    Musical short. Created as a tie-in for Dieterle and Reinhardt’s A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (1935) the film imagines a hybrid between Shakespeare and swing music. An assistant director is told to read all...

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