Danny Kaye Show , The [10/03/1945] (1945 Radio)

Series

Danny Kaye Show, The

Director

Goodman Ace

Radio comedy/variety series. This spisode includes a sketch around ‘Romeo and Juliet’ including some Shakespeare paraphrases to sell the sponsor’s product - beer. Jensen (op cit) writes ‘The...

Time Flies (1944 Film)

Director

Walter Forde

Producer

Edward Black

Feature film comedy. Tommy Handley and friends are transported back in time to Elizabethan England. Among various encounters with Elizabethans, Susie Barton enters the Globe theatre and finds William...

Orson Welles’s Almanac [17/05/1944] (1944 Radio)

Series

Orson Welles’s Almanac

Director

Orson Welles

Radio variety show broadcast only in California, not nationally. This episode includes Welles performing a scene from Romeo and Juliet with guest Hans Conried.

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...

Romeo and Juliet (1944 Radio)

Producer

Mary Hope Allen

Radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s play arranged for broadcasting by Herbert Farjeon, produced by Mary Hope Allen. With Fay Compton and David King-Wood in the title roles.

Mercutio (1944 Radio)

Series

Radio Theatre: Shakespeare’s Characters

Producer

Mary Hope Allen

Radio broadcast on an excerpt from Romeo and Juliet that focuses on the character of Mercutio. Arranged for radio by Herbert Farjeon and produced by Mary Hope Allen. With J. H. Roberts as speaker.

Romeo y Julieta (1943 Film)

Director

Miguel M. Delgado

Producer

Jacques Gelman; Santiago Reachi

Feature film. A farce parodying Romeo and Juliet (and strongly referencing Cukor’s 1936 film version) starring Cantinflas, the celebrated Mexican comedian (real name Mario Moreno). Lanier (op cit) notes...

Shuhaddaa El Gharam (1942 Film)

aka: Romeo and Juliet

Director

Kamal Selim

Feature film. An Egyptian version of Romeo and Juliet. Selim takes the substance of Shakespeare’s play and reworks it as a contemporary story of Egyptian life.

Rudy Vallee Show, The [29/01/1942] (1942 Radio)

Series

Rudy Vallee Show, The

Director

Dick Mack

Radio variety show. In this episode John Barrymore and his daughter Diana perform the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet. Vallee plays Mercutio.

Playmates (1941 Film)

Director

David Butler

Producer

Cliff Reid

Feature film. John Barrymore, in his final film, plays a Shakespearean actor caricaturing himself. His attempts to tutor an aspiring star arouse jealousy. The various references to Shakespeare include a...