SHAKESPEARE

Synopsis

Feature film comedy about a former bank clerk (Lyons) who takes a job as a film extra and is accidentally made a star by a famous director and becomes a victim of the studio’s publicity machine. A satire on the film industry, the film includes enactments of the balcony and tomb scenes from Romeo and Juliet .

Country

United States

Medium

Film

Technical information

Black-and-white / Silent

Year of release

1925

Recording date

27 Dec 1925

Duration

86 mins; 7774 feet

Availability

No archive copy found (7/2007).

Credits

Director

Alfred Santell

Cinematographer

Robert Haller

Cast

Blanche Sweet	Juliet (Juliet)
Ben Lyon	John Hart

Additional Details

Production type

Fiction Films

Plays

Romeo and Juliet

Subjects

Drama

Keywords

Hollywood; satire; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Notes

Notes

The BFI National Archive holds a trailer for the film which includes the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet but does not hold a print of the film and no print in other archives has been located (7/2007).

General

From a story by Paul Schofield and Blanche Merrill.

Production Company

Name

First National

Address

USA