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  • Rudy Vallee Show, The [05/06/1941] (1941 Radio)

    Series
    Rudy Vallee Show, The
    Director
    Ed Gardner

    Radio variety show. This episode features John Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore in a scene from Hamlet.

  • Rudy Vallee Show, The [01/05/1941] (1941 Radio)

    Series
    Rudy Vallee Show, The
    Director
    Ed Gardner

    Radio variety show. This episode features John Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore in a sketch entitled ‘The Life of the Barrymore Brothers’. The heavily abridged Shakespeare scenes are Richard III’s first...

  • Rudy Vallee Sealtest Show, The [19/12/1940] (1940 Radio)

    Series
    Rudy Vallee Sealtest Show, The
    Director
    Ed Gardner

    Radio variety show. This episode sets up a confrontation between John Barrymore as a stage veteran and Orson Welles as the new star of radio. The programme closes with a performance of IV iii from Julius...

  • Merchant of Venice, The (1938 Radio)

    Series
    Magic Key of Rca, The

    Radio variety series. To honour Shakespeare’s birthday Lauritz Melchior, Eva La Gallienne and others perform scenes from The Merchant of Venice.

  • Ronald Frankau [Romeo and Juliet] (1938 Film)

    Series
    Pathetone Weekly

    Comedian Ronald Frankau, in a dinner suit, stands by a piano (played by Monte Crick) and partly sings, partly recites, a humorous monologue on the theme of Shakespeare was a playboy ‘with a naughty...

  • Hasty Pudding Club Show (1938 Radio)

    Radio programme. A programme of hit tunes from the forthcoming Harvard Hasty Pudding Club production titled ‘So Proudly We Hail’. Songs include ‘Look Before You Leap’, ‘Came the Dawn’ and...

  • Chase and Sanborn Hour, The [30/10/1938] (1938 Radio)

    Series
    Chase and Sanborn Hour, The
    Director
    Earl Ebi

    US radio variety show. This episode includes a one-act play ‘There’s Always Juliet’. A young couple fall in love shortly after meeting and agree that it is too soon for marriage. Dwight (Ameche) says...

  • Julius Caesar (1938 Radio)

    Series
    Magic Key of Rca, The

    Radio variety series. Extracts from Julius Caesar performed by Orson Welles, Martin Gabel and others.

  • Baker’s Broadcast [10/10/1937] (1937 Radio)

    Series
    Baker’s Broadcast
    Director
    Ed Gardner

    US variety/interview series hosted by Reg Murray. In this episode John Barrymore, who had recently completed the Streamlined Shakespeare series for NBC, speaks of falling under the spell of Shakespeare while...

  • Teddy Bergman’s International Broadcast (1936 Film)

    aka: International Broadcast

    Director
    Milton Schwarzald

    Variety/musical short compered by comedian Teddy Bergman. One sequence involves Bergman’s Shylock’s answer to Billy Reyes Antonio’s request for a loan (I iii). After Bergman first plays the sequence...