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Iron Strain, The (1915 Film)
aka: Modern Taming of the Shrew, A
- Director
- Reginald Barker
- Producer
- Thomas H. Ince
Feature film. Octavia is a rich society beauty living in New York. Her grandfather, a mining magnate, sends her to Alaska fearing that she is about to marry a foolish city boy. There she meets Chuck...
Love in a Wood (1915 Film)
- Director
- Maurice Elvey
An adaptation by Kenelm Foss of As You Like It, directed by Maurice Elvey with Elizabeth Risdon as Rosalind. The production, in modern dress, follows Shakespeare’s plot quite closely and places the action...
Liza on the Stage (1915 Film)
- Director
- Joe Evans
Fiction short. A burlesque in which a market-seller girl gains a part in Romeo and Juliet.
Taming of the Shrew, The (1915 Film)
Experimental short film. The wooing scene from The Taming of the Shrew in which the actors spoke the complete text, a primitive sound process known as Voxograph. Ball (op cit) writes ‘When it was presented...
Two Little Dromios (1914 Film)
Fiction short. Moving Picture World notes ‘This single reel works up so entertainingly that the story could well be carried through a second reel. Mignon Anderson plays the double part of a country and...
When Macbeth Came to Snakeville (1914 Film)
- Director
- Roy Clements
Comedy western. The world’s greatest tragedian is due to perform at Snakeville’s Opry House. The Tank Town troupe arrives and stays at Slim’s (Potel) boarding house. Slim’s wife Sophie (Joslin) is...
Romeo and Juliet (1914 Film)
Fiction short. A burlesque modern re-working of Romeo and Juliet involving a feuding Irish-Italian family and a fight at a quarry between Mike Montague and Pete Capulet. No cast or production details known.
Merchant of Venice, The (1914 Film)
- Director
- Phillips Smalley; Lois Weber
Fiction film. A version of The Merchant of Venice directed by Phillips Smalley and his wife Lois Weber. Reviewed by Hanford C. Judson in Moving Picture World (February 14) with the heading ‘Full of Dignity...
Seven Ages of Man, The (1914 Film)
- Producer
- Charles Vernon
Music-hall entertainer Bransby Williams filmed enacting scenes of a character from youth to old age. Williams had enjoyed a stage success with this performance.
Othello in Jonesville (1913 Film)
aka: Othello Au Village
- Director
- Charles Seay
Comedy short. An unemployed actor offers a stagestruck young woman and her family acting lessons in exchange for free board and lodging. They attempt a performance of Othello at the town hall which turns out...