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11 results found for '"Hollywood"' in Keywords.
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...
Shakespeare in Performance (2007 Radio)
- Series
- Shakespeare in American Life
- Director
- Gail Kern Paster
- Producer
- Richard Paul
Three-part radio documentary series, narrated by Sam Waterston, made to mark the 75th anniversary, in 2007, of the Folger Shakespeare Library. The series explores the influence of Shakespeare on American...
Could Shakespeare Survive in Hollywood? (2006 Radio)
- Series
- Morning Edition
Radio broadcast. In this edition of the news programme, presented by Elizabeth Blair, an 8 minute item argues that if Shakespeare were alive today he would be in real estate. Patrick Stewart notes that...
Taming of the Screwball, The (2003 Film)
- Series
- Looney Tunes: Stranger Than Fiction
- Director
- Steve Belfer
Cartoon. Daffy Duck hosts a television show called ‘The Mysterious Phenomena of the Unexplained’. Daffy and Porky plot to pocket the investment money by doing a bad play (cf ‘The Producers’). They...
Free Enterprise (1998 Film)
- Director
- Robert Meyer Burnett
- Producer
- Mark A. Altman
Feature film. Two aspiring film-makers run into William Shatner (playing himself) in a Hollywood bookstore. The film-makers have been Star Trek fans for many years and believe their dreams are now realised....
Fifteen Minute Hamlet, The (1995 Film)
- Director
- Todd Louiso
- Producer
- Todd Louiso; Ethan Tucker
Short. A satire on the film industry as if it existed in Elizabethan times. Film director William Shakespeare shoots HAMLET in one reel and in one take. When he screens his 15-minute film for the studio...
Witch Hunt (1994 Film)
- Director
- Paul Schrader
Feature film made for cable. A surreal thriller set in a nostalgic world where magic is integrated into everyday life. Using a fantastical narrative to satirise the McCarthy era of the 1950s, Private...
Producer, The (1966 Television)
- Series
- Gilligan’s Island
- Director
- Ida Lupino
US sitcom about a group of seven castaways. Famous Hollywood producer Harold Hecuba, (Silvers, the guest star) arrives on the island. To impress him the castaways mount a musical version of Hamlet. The play...
Mister Shakespeare (1947 Radio)
- Series
- Favorite Story
- Director
- Robert E Lee; Jerome Lawrence
Radio anthology drama series hosted by Ronald Colman. The series had the convention of asking celebrities to name their favourite story; the celebrity then appeared on the show to introduce the adaptation of...
Shake, Mr. Shakespeare (1936 Film)
- Director
- Roy Mack
Musical short. Created as a tie-in for Dieterle and Reinhardt’s A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (1935) the film imagines a hybrid between Shakespeare and swing music. An assistant director is told to read all...