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151 results found for all records.
Kean, Ou, Désordre et Génie (1922 Film)
aka: Edmund Kean, Prince Among Lovers
- Director
- Alexander Volkoff
Feature film about Edmund Kean adapted from the play Kean by Alexandre Dumas père. The film makes reference to Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and Othello and adds the death scene from Romeo and Juliet.
Macbeth (1916 Film)
Fiction film. A highly abbreviated version of Macbeth with Georgette Leblanc-Maeterlinck as Lady Macbeth and Severin-Mars as Macbeth. No further details known.
Shylock, Ou le More de Venise (1913 Film)
aka: Merchant of Venice, The Shylock
- Director
- Henri Desfontaines
- Producer
- Clément-Maurice
Fiction film of The Merchant of Venice directed by Henri Desfontaines with Harry Baur as Shylock. The film greatly abbreviates the play and omits the Jessica subplot and other incidents. Ball comments ‘The...
Amours de la Reine Elisabeth, Les (1912 Film)
aka: Queen Elizabeth Queen Bess (Her Love Story) Reine Elisabeth, La Elisabeth, Reine d’Angleterre
- Director
- Louis Mercanton; Henri Desfontaines
Film drama based on the play by Emile Moreau that relates the love story of Queen Elizabeth and the Earl of Essex. The film opens with a performance of The Merry Wives of Windsor (the Falstaff basket scene...
Tempest, The (1912 Film)
Film version of The Tempest. No cast or production credits found. Ball, paraphrasing from Bioscope (December 12 1912), writes ‘the film consequently has pictured the beginning and end of the story,...
Roi Lear Au Village, Le (1911 Film)
aka: Village King Lear, The
- Series
- Vie Telle Qu’Elle Est, La
- Director
- Louis Feuillade
Fiction film. A blind father is prevailed upon to transfer his property to his daughters who promise to care for him. However, they both find him irksome and reject him. The old man is broken-hearted at his...
Mégère Approvoisée, La (1911 Film)
aka: Taming of the Shrew, The
- Director
- Henri Desfontaines
Fiction short. A version of The Taming of the Shrew.
Falstaff (1911 Film)
aka: Sir John Falstaff Merry Wives of Windsor, The
- Director
- Henri Desfontaines
Fiction short. The Merry Wives of Windsor presented in ten scenes.
Cleopatra (1910 Film)
aka: Antony and Cleopatra
Fiction short. `...as fine an example of the producer’s skill as we have seen. The management of the riotous crowds, the costly splendour of the costumes, and the perfectly artistic spirit in which the...
Hamlet (1910 Film)
- Director
- Henri Desfontaines
Fiction short. Ball’s attribution of Eclipse as the production company is tentative; he notes that ‘all the external information is puzzling and much of it contradictory’. A detailed account of the...