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  1. Witch’s Tangled Hare, A (1959 Film)

    Series
    Looney Tunes
    Director
    Abe Levitow

    Animation. The credits appear over a blasted heath. A young Shakespeare walks thoughtfully along, quill in hand, stuck on page one of Macbeth. He comes across an intriguing scene and hides behind a tree. He...

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  2. Too Much Too Soon (1958 Film)

    Director
    Art Napoleon
    Producer
    Henry Blanke

    Biopic on the life of Diana Barrymore, daughter of John Barrymore. While drunk on a yacht Barrymore (Flynn) delivers lines from Henry V (from II ii and Act III prologue) and the entire ‘once more unto the...

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  3. Story of Mankind, The (1957 Film)

    Director
    Irwin Allen
    Producer
    Irwin Allen

    Fantasy film. Scientists have developed a weapon, called the ‘Super H-bomb’ which if detonated will wipe out the human race. A High Tribunal is called in Outer Space to decide whether Heavenly...

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  4. Serenade (1956 Film)

    Director
    Anthony Mann
    Producer
    Henry Blanke

    Feature film. Damon Vincente (Lanza), a farmhand with a beautiful singing voice, becomes a singer in a restaurant where he is discovered by a musical promoter (Price) and a rich heiress (Fontaine). Vincente...

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  5. Ham in a Role (1949 Film)

    Director
    Robert McKimson
    Producer
    Edward Selzer

    Warner Brothers cartoon. A Shakespearean dog, tired of being a Looney Tune character, quits Warner Brothers to study dramatic acting and goes to his country house to practise. He finds that the Goofy Gophers...

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  6. That Hagan Girl (1947 Film)

    Director
    Peter Godfrey
    Producer
    Alex Gottlieb

    Feature film. Mary Hagan (Temple) lives in small-town Ohio and is subject to vicious gossip about the identity of her father, Tom Bates (Reagan), rumoured to be a prominent lawyer. When the lawyer returns to...

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  7. 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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  8. Hamateur Night (1939 Film)

    Series
    Merrie Melodies
    Director
    Tex Avery
    Producer
    Leon Schlesinger

    Cartoon of an amateur talent contest in a local theatre, which includes, among other entrants, an operatic penguin, a fox reciting Shakespeare, two chickens (one with a Katharine Hepburn voice) performing...

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  9. It’s Love I’m After (1937 Film)

    aka: Gentlemen After Midnight

    Director
    Archie L. Mayo

    Screwball comedy. Actors Basil Underwood (Howard) and Joyce Arden (Bette Davis) have postponed their marriage eleven times. Henry Grant’s fiancée Macia is infatuated with Basil. At Henry’s request Basil...

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  10. Great Garrick, The (1937 Film)

    aka: Ladies and Gentlemen

    Director
    James Whale
    Producer
    Mervyn LeRoy

    Feature film comedy. David Garrick, the legendary 18th-century English actor, accepts an invitation to the Comédie Française in Paris, announcing that he’ll teach them the art of acting. When they hear...

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