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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...