Romeo and Juliet (1939 Radio)

Series

Scenes from Great Plays

Producer

Barbara Burnham

Radio performance of the balcony scene (II ii) of Romeo and Juliet. Starring Nova Pilbeam and Alec Guinness, this was the first star production of the war.

Romeo and Juliet (1939 Radio)

Series

Great Plays

Producer

Charles Warburton

Radio broadcast of Romeo and Juliet adapted by Charles Warburton with Wesley Addy and Florida Friebus in the title roles. The production begins with Friar Laurence’s speech (V iii l228-268) and then...

Hamateur Night (1939 Film)

Series

Merrie Melodies

Director

Tex Avery

Producer

Leon Schlesinger

Cartoon of an amateur talent contest in a local theatre, which includes, among other entrants, an operatic penguin, a fox reciting Shakespeare, two chickens (one with a Katharine Hepburn voice) performing...

Julieta y Romeo (1939 Film)

aka: Romeo and Juliet

Director

Jose Maria Castellvi

Feature film version of Romeo and Juliet. Directed by Jose Maria Castellvi; translated into Spanish by Jose Maria Peman.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (1939 Film)

aka: Huckleberry Finn

Director

Richard Thorpe (2)

Producer

Joseph L Mankiewicz

Feature film based on Mark Twain’s novel with Mickey Rooney as Huck. Douglas Lanier in Shakespeares After Shakespeare (entry 1120) notes that this is the only film version of Twain’s novel which includes...

Romeo and Juliet (1938 Radio)

Series

Shakespeare Cycle (Cbc)

Director

Charles Warburton

CBC Radio drama. Scenes from Romeo and Juliet directed and adapted for radio by Charles Warburton. Rupert Lucas as Romeo and Eva La Galliene as Juliet.

Goldwyn Follies, The (1938 Film)

Director

George Marshall; H.C. Potter

Producer

Samuel Goldwyn

Musical with music by George Gershwin and Vernon Duke and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. Movie producer Oliver Merlin (Menjou) overhears two women criticising a film he is making. He decided to hire one of them,...

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...

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...

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...