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  1. Pay As You Exit (1936 Film)

    Series
    Our Gang
    Director
    Gordon Douglas
    Producer
    Hal Roach

    American comedy short. Hoping to attract customers to Spanky McFarland’s barnyard production of Romeo and Juliet, star performer Carl ‘Alfalfa’ Switzer proposes a ‘pay as you exit’ policy: If the...

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  2. Ginger (1936 Film)

    Director
    Lewis Seiler
    Producer
    Sol M. Wurtzel

    Feature film. Rex Whittington (Heggie) is an ageing and alcoholic Shakespearean actor, depressed after being offered only a spear-carrier role in a movie. When he is arrested his loving niece, Ginger,...

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  3. Romeo and Juliet (1936 Radio)

    Series
    Magic Key of Rca, The

    Radio variety series. Extracts from Romeo and Juliet performed by Alexander Kirkland and Jean Dante.

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  4. Give Us This Night (1936 Film)

    Director
    Alexander Hall
    Producer
    William LeBaron

    Musical feature. When the voice of tenor Forcellini breaks down and his co-star Maria refuses to work with him, opera maestro Marcello Bonetti turns to Antonio Belizza, a fisherman, to replace him in his new...

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  5. Immortal Gentleman, The (1935 Film)

    Director
    Widgey R. Newman
    Producer
    Widgey R. Newman

    Feature film. William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Michael Drayton meet in a tavern in Southwark. Shakespeare points out people who remind him of scenes from his plays. A wistful woman reminds him of Juliet,...

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  6. Charles Hackett with Rosa Low in an Excerpt from Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet (1931 Film)

    An except from the Capulets’ tomb scene from the final act of Gounod’s opera Rom o et Juliette with American tenor Charles Hackett and Romanian-born soprano Rosa Low.

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  7. Hollywood Revue of 1929, The (1929 Film)

    Director
    Charles Riesner

    Feature film. Jack Benny and Conrad Nagel host a musical revue of MGM acts, including Joan Crawford, Laurel and Hardy and Buster Keaton. Includes a skit (c 6 mins) on Romeo and Juliet, where John Gilbert and...

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  8. Drama de Luxe (1927 Film)

    Director
    Norman Taurog

    Comedy short in which Lupino Lane joins a vaudeville company, first as a bill sticker and then as an actor after the leading man quits. Includes a scene from Romeo and Juliet in which Lane (Romeo) trips over...

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  9. Romeo e Giulietta (1927 Film)

    Musical short. An early sound film using Lee De Forest’s sound film process and featuring a song from Gounod’s opera Romeo et Juliette sung by Otakar Marak and Mary Cavanova.

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  10. Bromo and Juliet (1926 Film)

    Director
    Leo McCarey
    Producer
    Hal Roach

    Slapstick comedy short. When the Chase family are trying to come up with ideas for a charity variety show for missionaries they decide to stage scenes from Romeo and Juliet with Madge as Juliet and Charley...

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