SHAKESPEARE

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...

Makacs Kata (1943 Film)

Director

Viktor Banky

Feature film. Contemporary re-working of The Taming of the Shrew, Kate here being a multi-millionnaire heiress.

Makrancos Holgy (1943 Film)

Director

Emil Martonffy

Producer

Maria Hausz

Feature film. A contemporary musical re-working of The Taming of the Shrew.

Bisbetica Domata, La (1942 Film)

aka: Taming of the Shrew, The

Director

Ferdinando Maria Poggioli

Producer

Angelo Mosco; Nicola Naracci

Feature film. A loose re-working of The Taming of the Shrew directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli with Amedeo Nazzari as Petruchio and Lila Silvi as Katherine.

Taming of the Shrew, The (1941 Radio)

Series

Great Plays

Director

Charles Warburton

Radio broadcast of The Taming of the Shrew adapted by Randall McDougall with Grace Coppin and Herbert Rudley as Katherina and Petruchio.

Taming of the Shrew, The (1941 Radio)

Producer

Peter Creswell

Radio version of Shakespeare’s comedy, arranged for broadcasting and produced by Peter Creswell. The cast includes Fay Compton as Kate and Godfrey Tearle as Petruchio. No further information available...

Taming of the Shrew, The (1940 Radio)

Series

Columbia Workshop

Director

Phil Cohen (2)

Radio broadcast. A musical version of The Taming of the Shrew written especially for Columbia Workshop. Few of Shakespeare’s lines survive in the modern dialogue. Carleton Young and Nan Sunderland play...

Katharine and Petruchio (1939 Television)

aka: Catherine and Petruchio

Director

Dallas Bower

Producer

Dallas Bower

Televised version of the play as adapted by David Garrick in 1758. In contrast to the original, Garrick’s play has no Induction and merely a simplified subplot. Focusing on the Katherine-Petruchio story,...

Taming of the Shrew, The (1939 Radio)

Radio broadcast of The Taming of the Shrew adapted from Angus Bowmer’s stage production. In 1939, OSF took the production to the Golden Gate Exposition in San Francisco, California and the broadcast arises...

Second Best Bed (1938 Film)

Director

Tom Walls

Producer

Max Schach

Feature film comedy. Victor Garnett (Walls) a rich bachelor marries wealthy, spoilt and shrewish Patricia Lynton (Jane Baxter) whereupon he tries to mould her into his ideal woman. Enraged by Victor’s...