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His Kind of Woman (1951 Film)
- Director
- John Farrow; Richard Fleischer
- Producer
- Robert Sparks; Howard Hughes (2)
Feature film. Gambler Dan Milner (Robert Mitchum) accepts $5,000 to fly to a remote resort in Mexico for purposes undisclosed. On arrival, Dan finds the ostensibly rich, carefree guests all playing...
Playmates (1941 Film)
- Director
- David Butler
- Producer
- Cliff Reid
Feature film. John Barrymore, in his final film, plays a Shakespearean actor caricaturing himself. His attempts to tutor an aspiring star arouse jealousy. The various references to Shakespeare include a...
Arizonian, The (1935 Film)
- Director
- Charles Vidor
- Producer
- Cliff Reid
Western feature film. Marshall Tallant is the sheriff protecting Silver City from outlaws. The film opens with a variety show in a saloon bar which features the ‘Ghost scene from Hamlet’ (I iv) with...
Edgar Hamlet (1935 Film)
- Director
- Arthur Ripley
- Producer
- Lee S. Marcus
RKO comedy short. A quiet day at home is interrupted by arguments over the source of Shakespearean speeches. Lanier (op cit) notes that the film is ‘revealing for its assumptions about the highbrow status...
Hamlet Screen Tests (1933 Film)
- Director
- Margaret Carington; Robert Edmond Jones
John Barrymore was approached in 1933 to make a film version of Hamlet. Although he had played the role many times on stage, the production company asked for a screen test, perhaps because of rumours that...
Morning Glory (1933 Film)
- Director
- Lowell Sherman
- Producer
- Pandro S. Berman
Feature film with a scene in which Katharine Hepburn as an ambitious actress seeking to impress makes a spectacle of herself reciting the ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy, and a few lines from the balcony...
Shakespeare with Tin Ears (1933 Film)
- Director
- Harry Sweet; Leslie Goodwins
RKO comedy short. The film has little relationship to Shakespeare and is included because of its delightful title. Two bums, Fat and Rivets, are hired by a rich man to make his daughter realise that her...
Julius Caesar (1931 Film)
- Series
- Humanettes
- Director
- Jason Leigh
- Producer
- Frank L. Newman
RKO Radio Pictures Short. Described on the BFI Film & Television database as ‘A travesty of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar’ and ‘Comedy short with human faces on the bodies of marionettes’.
Oh! Oh! Cleopatra (1931 Film)
- Director
- Joseph Santley
RKO short primarily serving as an outlet for the comedy team of Wheeler & Woolsey. They take pills from a Professor Sweinstein and are transported into characters in history - Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.
Tests. Mrs Patrick Campbell Screen Test (1930 Film)
A compilation of screen tests given by Mrs Patrick Campbell. Includes the sleepwalking scene from Macbeth, Palleas and Melisande (sound only), Yiddish dialect from The Matriach (sound only), and a scene from...