Elizabethan Tongue, The (1949 Radio)

Producer

Mary Hope Allen

Radio programme. Passages from the plays of Shakespeare are delivered in what was thought to be their original Elizabethan pronounciation. The programme is introduced by Daniel Jones, Professor Emeritus of...

Romeo and Juliet (1949 Radio)

Series

Prokofiev

Radio series on Prokofiev’s music. This episode featured excerpts from the Second Suite of music for the ballet Romeo and Juliet. Movements broadcast included ‘Montague and Capulet’, ‘Dance’,...

Romeo und Julia (1949 Audio, Radio)

aka: Romeo and Juliet

Director

Alfred Braun

Radio adaptation of the play directed and adapted by Alfred Braun with Klaus Kinski as Hamlet, Hanns Lothar as Mercutio and Traute Bendach as Julia. With music composed by Herbert Trantow.

Anjuman (1948 Film)

Director

Akhtar Hussain

Producer

Akhtar Hussain

Feature film. Indian version of Romeo and Juliet. No further information has been found.

Romeo and Juliet (1948 Radio)

aka: Romeo e Juliette

Berlioz’ dramatic symphony is broadcast in its entirety. With Muriel Gale (soprano), Rene Soames (tenor), Tom Williams (baritone). Frederick Haggis conducts the Goldsmiths’ Choral Union. The BBC Symphony...

Village Romeo and Juliet, A (1948 Radio)

Studio performance of the music drama by Delius, a six-scene opera about lovers from feuding families set in the pastures of the Swiss Alps based on the novel by Gottfried Keller.

Romeo and Juliet (1948 Radio)

Series

Theatre Guild on the Air

Director

Homer Fickett

Radio broadcast of Romeo and Juliet, heavily abridged, with Maurice Evans as Romeo and Dorothy McGuire as Juliet.

I Always Marry Juliet (1948 Radio)

Series

Quiet, Please

Director

Wyllis Cooper

Radio drama anthology series. The story, written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, tells of an old Shakespearean actor, Rambeau Bainbridge (Chappell), who specialises in playing Romeo. He has the habit of...

School Play, The (1948 Radio)

Series

Meet the Meeks

Producer

Les Weinrodt

Radio comedy series. This episode focuses on a school production of Romeo and Juliet. Michael P. Jensen (op cit) observes ‘This truly dreadful program is a strange combination of comedy and soap...

Kraft Music Hall, The [12/02/1948] (1948 Radio)

Series

Kraft Music Hall, The

Radio variety show. In this edition the guest, Charles Laughton, coaches the series host Al Jolson in the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet. The jokes revolve around Laughton’s British accent and...