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  1. Bill Shakespeare in Hollywood (2011 Film)

    Producer
    Jocelyn Ranne

    Independent feature film. "Macbeth: Creative people and dream makers are drawn to Hollywood. Yet, how many of these aspiring dreamers are shrivelled by their ambitions or eaten by their demons? Hollywood is...

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  2. Romeo and Juliet (1920 Film)

    Director
    Vin Moore

    A Star Comedy burlesque. No further information known.

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  3. Victory Shakespeare Celebration (1919 Film)

    Series
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    British silent newsfilm. "Sir F Benson with pilgrims who marched from the poet’s birthplace to Stratford-on-Avon."

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  4. Shades of Shakespeare (1919 Film)

    Director
    Al Christie

    A burlesque involving amateur theatricals. No further information known of the Shakespeare connection beyond the title.

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  5. To Be or Not to Be (1916 Film)

    Director
    Ed Watt

    Fiction film comedy concerning a ham actor (Humphrey) who, with his company, leaves town without paying his hotel bill. Pursued by a policemen he takes refuge in a private house where he stumbles upon some...

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  6. Real Thing at Last, The (1916 Film)

    Director
    L.C. MacBean

    A burlesque of Macbeth which imagines how the play would be adapted and filmed by an American producer. The New York Times critic, reviewing the London screening, noted ‘The drama ends happily with a...

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  7. Love in a Wood (1915 Film)

    Director
    Maurice Elvey

    An adaptation by Kenelm Foss of As You Like It, directed by Maurice Elvey with Elizabeth Risdon as Rosalind. The production, in modern dress, follows Shakespeare’s plot quite closely and places the action...

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  8. Merchant of Venice, The (1914 Film)

    Director
    Phillips Smalley; Lois Weber

    Fiction film. A version of The Merchant of Venice directed by Phillips Smalley and his wife Lois Weber. Reviewed by Hanford C. Judson in Moving Picture World (February 14) with the heading ‘Full of Dignity...

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  9. Horse! A Horse!, A (1913 Film)

    Director
    Percy Stow

    Fiction film. A cleaning lady is given the job of finding a horse for an actor playing Richard III; she provides him instead with a donkey.

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