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  1. What Makes Opera Grand? (1958 Television)

    Series
    Omnibus (Us Series)
    Director
    Seymour Robbie
    Producer
    Robert Saudek; George M. Benson; Walter Kerr; Mary V. Ahern; Richard Thomas (2)

    US cultural magazine series hosted by Alistair Cooke. In this episode Leonard Bernstein contends that since music is received directly by the heart and does not need to be processed by the brain first, opera...

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  2. Omnibus [15/11/1953] (1953 Television)

    aka: Moor’s Pavanne, The

    Series
    Omnibus (Us Series)
    Director
    Bob Banner

    Anthology arts series hosted by Alistair Cooke. One section (16 mins) includes José Limon’s contemporary ballet inspired by Othello. Music by Henry Purcell arranged by Simon Sadoff. The director of the...

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  3. Red, Hot and Blue (1949 Film)

    Director
    John Farrow
    Producer
    Robert Fellows

    Feature film. Musical comedy with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser. An aspiring chorus girl finds herself in a jam when a gangster, who is backing the show she is appearing in, is found dead in her...

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  4. Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A (1945 Film)

    Director
    Elia Kazan
    Producer
    Louis D. Lighton

    Feature filmed based on Betty Smith’s novel of the same name. A young girl, Francie, tries to keep her idealism alive and surmount the hardships of her slum tenement life in the face of her family’s...

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  5. 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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  6. Souls at Sea (1937 Film)

    Director
    Henry Hathway
    Producer
    Henry Hatahway; Grover Jones; Adolph Zukor

    Action adventure film, starring Gary Cooper, about the slave trade on the high seas in 1842. In The Great Hamlets, an educational video of interviews with famous actors and directors of Hamlet, made in 1985...

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  7. Men Are Not Gods (1936 Film, Video)

    Director
    Walter Reisch
    Producer
    Alexander Korda

    Feature film. Ann, secretary to a theatre critic, is persuaded to alter a poor review of actor Edmond Davey’s performance as Othello at the behest of his actress wife, Barbara. Ann is sacked, then falls in...

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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. Here Comes Cookie (1935 Film)

    aka: Plot Thickens

    Director
    Norman Z. McLeod
    Producer
    William LeBaron

    Feature film farce. Gracie is the daughter of a wealthy business magnate. To prevent a gigolo (who is attempting to seduce his other daughter) from getting his fortune, the father gives all his money,...

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  10. For Åbent Tæppe (1911 Film)

    aka: Desdemona

    Director
    August Blom
    Producer
    Ole Olsen

    Fiction short. A modern reworking of Othello. Ejnar and Maria are husband and wife and both actors in a forthcoming production of Othello. The plot revolves around jealously, disguise and revenge when Ejnar...

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