Romeo und Julia auf Dem Dorfe (1941 Film)

aka: Romeo and Juliet in the Village

Director

Hans Trommer; Valerien Schmidely

Producer

Conrad Arthur Schlaepfer

Feature film based on the novel by Gottfried Keller. In a farming community in Switzerland, Vreni and Sali are inseparable as children. Their families find themselves in conflict over land belonging to the...

Course of True Love, The (1941 Radio)

Series

Man Shakespeare, The

Producer

Val Gielgud

First in a series of 30-minute broadcasts highlighting scenes from Shakespeare’s plays performed by contemporary leading actors. This episode focuses on Romeo and Juliet. The series is arranged by Clemence...

One Day in Soviet Russia (1941 Film)

Director

M. Slutski; Roman Karmen

Documentary. Life in various parts of the Soviet Union on 24 August 1940. Includes a short sequence in which Galina Ulanova dances the role of Juliet in Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet ballet at the Kirov...

Romeo and Juliet (1941 Radio)

Producer

Val Gielgud

Radio broadcast. A sequence from Shakespeare’s play arranged by Hugh Stewart with narrative taken from Charles and Mary Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare. Fay Compton and Marius Goring perform the title roles.

Understanding Movies (1940 Film)

Illustrates direction, editing and acting, using a selection of MGM films from the 1930s. Includes an extract from George Cukor’s 1936 ROMEO AND JULIET with Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer.

Shakespearean Spinach (1940 Film)

Series

Popeye the Sailor

Director

Dave Fleischer

Producer

Max Fleischer

Cartoon short. A spoof on Romeo and Juliet, with Popeye the sailor as Romeo and Olive Oyl as Juliet. They sing their lines to the tunes of operatic arias.

Romeo in Rhythm (1940 Film)

Director

Rudolf Ising

Producer

Fred Quimby

Cartoon. ‘The Black Crow Light Opera Company Presents Romeo and Juliet’. Swingin’ Romeo and Flat-Foot Juliet are two black crows who speak in African-American accents. They enact part of the balcony...

Star-Crossed Lovers, The (1940 Radio)

Series

Theatre Time

Director

Andrew Allen

Radio adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, heavily abridged, by Ben Lepkin and Tommy Tweed. No details of cast known (2007).

Love They Neighbor (1940 Radio)

aka: Love Thy Neighbour

Series

Hollywood on the Air

Radio programme. A celebration of LOVE THY NEIGHBOR (1940) which includes some of the film’s stars - Jack Benny, Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson and Fred Allen. Announcer Ken Carpenter and Benny ask...

Romeo Coates: A Portrait of Failure (1939 Radio)

Producer

Stephen Potter

Portrait written by Edith Sitwell of would-be-actor and English eccentric Robert ‘Romeo’ Coates, also known as Cock-a-doodle-doo Coates. Son of a West Indian millionaire, Coates arrived in England with...