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21 results found for '"burlesgues"' in Keywords.
Othello, Der Mohr in Wien (1996 Television)
- Director
- Gandolf Buschbeck
Joseph Ferdinand Kringsteiner’s 19th-century burlesgue of Othello written in the Viennese dialect for the popular Viennese stage. The play is set among the servant class of Vienna: Mussi Cassio is a...
Niemand Liebt Dich - Wieso Ich? (1980 Television)
aka: Merry Wives of Windsor, The
- Director
- Günter Stahnke
- Producer
- Roland Ender
Musical burlesque made for Eastern German television based on Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor. Written and directed by Günter Stahnke, the production was shot entirely in a studio. With dance...
Casanova in Burlesque (1944 Film)
- Director
- Leslie Goodwins
- Producer
- Albert J. Cohen
Musical comedy. A Shakespeare professor secretly works as a burlesque comedian during the summer. He maintains his secret until a stripper shows up and threatens to tell his secret unless he gives her a...
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (1939 Film)
aka: Huckleberry Finn
- Director
- Richard Thorpe (2)
- Producer
- Joseph L Mankiewicz
Feature film based on Mark Twain’s novel with Mickey Rooney as Huck. Douglas Lanier in Shakespeares After Shakespeare (entry 1120) notes that this is the only film version of Twain’s novel which includes...
Will You Stop! (1937 Film)
- Director
- William Watson
- Producer
- Al Christie
Fiction short presented by E.W. Hammons. A New York writer (Ryan) is employed by the owner of a department store to adapt Antony and Cleopatra for the annual employee show. The show includes musical numbers,...
Lärm um Weidemann (1935 Film)
aka: Viel Lärm um Nichts Much Ado About Nothing
- Director
- J. A. Hübler-Kahla
- Producer
- Carl Froehlich
German burlesque film version of the play directed by J. A. Hübler-Kahla. Unemployed Berlin lawyer Hans Weisemann (Viktor de Kowa) falls in love with a woman who turns out to be the daughter of the...
Juliet and Her Romeo (1923 Film)
- Series
- Syncopated Picture Plays
- Director
- Bertram Phillips
A burlesque featuring Queenie Thomas. No further details known (10/2007).
Doubling for Romeo (1921 Film)
- Director
- Clarence Badger
- Producer
- Samuel Goldwyn
Feature film. A burlesque. Sam Cody is a clumsy cowboy who, because he is a diffident lover, loses his girlfriend, Lulu, to another man. Sam goes to a film studio to learn how to make love as they do in the...
Othello (1920 Film)
- Director
- Anson Dyer
- Producer
- Cecil Hepworth
Cut-out animated cartoon burlesque of Othello. Bioscope (29 July 1920) described the film thus - ‘The Moor of Venice becomes a seaside nigger minstrel whilst Desdemona (known as Mona for short) is the...
Romeo und Julia im Schnee (1920 Film)
aka: Romeo and Juliet in the Snow
- Director
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Producer
- Paul Ebner; Maxim Galitzenstein
Fiction short. A burlesque of Romeo and Juliet set in Garmisch, in the Bavarian Mountains. The family feud between the Kapulethofers and the Montekugers (leading to several snowball fights) is initiated by...