Douglas Booth and Hailee Steinfeld step into the roles of Romeo and Juliet in this reinvention of William Shakespeare's play...
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2013
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2012
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William Shakespeare's battle-of-the-sexes comedy gets an indie update with this Joss Whedon production shot in black and...
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2012
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2011
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2011
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2011
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2011
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The animated tale Gnomeo & Juliet knowingly follows the quintessential star-crossed lovers tragedy Romeo and Juliet, with the...
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2011
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2010
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2010
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Sir Patrick Stewart stars in director Rupert Goold's visionary take on William Shakespeare's classic play, which shifts the...
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2010
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This performance of Shakespeare's The Tempest stars none other than Christopher Plummer as Prospero, a sorcerer stranded for...
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2010
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This performance of Giuseppe Verde's tragic opera Faust by the Opera Royal de Wallonie was recorded at the Opera de Liege in...
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2009
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2009
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The legendary Shakespeare's Globe Theater mounted this production of Shakespeare's romantic comedy {+As You Like It] in...
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2009
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With the 2006 MacBeth, controversial Australian director Geoffrey Wright (Romper Stomper, Metal Skin) launches his fourth big...
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2007
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Wilson Milam directed this Globe Theater production of William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello, starring Eamonn Walker (Oz) as...
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2007
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2007
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Shakespearean tragedy gets a surreal makeover courtesy of fledgling auteur Alexander Fodor, who instills the oft-told tale...
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2007
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William Shakespeare's 17th century tragedy is adapted for the screen by one of Bollywood's most promising filmmakers in this...
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2006
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A simple case of assumed identity snowballs into a romantic mix-up of epic proportions in director Andy Fickman's...
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2006
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Giuseppi Verdi co-wrote his operatic interpretation of William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth - with its text of lust, greed,...
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2005
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2005
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One of William Shakespeare's most powerful comedies has been given a bold cinematic adaptation in this film version of The...
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2004
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One of the biggest hits of the 1948-1949 Broadway season, the classic Cole Porter musical Kiss Me, Kate was triumphantly...
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2003
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What happens if you take one of William Shakespeare's darkest tragedies and move it to a burger joint in the early 1970s? The...
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2002
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A Maori take on one of William Shakespeare's most enduring plays, The Maori Merchant of Venice offers a new take on the...
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2002
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Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear is transplanted to 19th century Texas in this made-for-cable drama. Patrick Stewart stars as...
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2002
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2002
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A modernized retelling of William Shakespeare's Othello, O changes its setting to an elite private school in the American...
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2001
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This British TV production of Othello is more than a mere updating of the classic William Shakespeare tragedy; with freshly...
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2001
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The Bard goes digital as independent director John Farrell brings William Shakespeare's Richard the Second to the screen for...
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2001
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This adaptation of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice was directed by Trevor Nunn, who has become one of the most respected...
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2001
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Actor/director Kenneth Branagh sets his screen version of Shakespeare's play in the 1930s, adding such classic songs as "They...
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2000
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William Shakespeare's classic tale is brought to the screen for the third time in ten years in this modernized...
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2000
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Leonardo Henriquez wrote and directed this drama, which borrows freely from William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth while...
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2000
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Campbell Scott is both star and co-director of this elaborate (albeit economically produced) four-hour TV version of...
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2000
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One of William Shakespeare's lesser-known plays, Titus Andronicus was staged in New York by award-winning theatrical director...
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1999
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With William Shakespeare now a hot commodity at the box office (and his body of work conveniently out of copyright), the...
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1999
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Ian Holm delivers an Emmy-nominated performance in this filmed adaptation of the classic Shakespearean tragedy King Lear....
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1997
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A modern, light-hearted version of William Shakespeare's Macbeth (superstitiously known to theater types as "the Scottish...
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1997
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1996
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Notorious schlock and psychotronic production company Troma (known for such classics as Toxic Avenger and Class of Nuke 'Em...
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1996
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A workshop of William Shakespeare's Richard III inspires actor-director Al Pacino's breezy documentary, which aims to make...
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1996
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The classic Shakespearean romantic tragedy is updated by director Baz Luhrmann to a post-modern Verona Beach where swords are...
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1996
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Renowned theatrical director Adrian Noble directed the Royal Shakespeare Company's mid-'90s stage production and helmed this...
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1996
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At least the 22nd time William Shakespeare's most famous tragedy has been brought to the screen, Kenneth Branagh's film...
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1996
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The classic Shakespearean comedy about mistaken identity and gender confusion is brought to the screen once again in this...
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1996
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Actor Oliver Parker made his directorial debut with this adaptation of the tragic play by William Shakespeare that abridges...
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1995
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1995
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This tragedy offers a retelling of the plot for "Romeo and Juliet" in a Macedonian setting which looks at both Muslim and...
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1994
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1993
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This is a modern-dress rendition of Shakespeare's famous "comedy," a semi-serious drama with a story featuring mistaken...
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1992
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1992
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Puzzle-master Peter Greenaway exposes another aspect of his peculiar obsessions to the filmgoing public. Prospero's Books...
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1991
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Gus Van Sant's dreamtime riff on Shakespeare's "Henry IV, Parts I and II" features River Phoenix as Mike Waters, a...
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1991
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1991
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Romeo has played one practical joke too many on his beleaguered co-workers, and they decide to retaliate with one of the...
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1991
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A classic production of Shakespeare's most well-known drama. ~ Rovi...
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1991
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Kevin Kline directed this television adaptation of the New York Shakespeare Festival's 1990 production of Shakespeare's most...
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1990
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1990
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1989
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This artistic performance features a battle of the sexes through this famous Shakespeare play. ~ Rovi...
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1989
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Made-for-television adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy of a Scottish warrior who murders his way to the throne. ~ Nicole...
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1989
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1988
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This production of Giuseppi Verdi's opera based on Macbeth, the famed play by William Shakespeare, is a musical succès...
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1987
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1987
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Part of the Thames Shakespeare Collection, this production of Twelfth Night was adapted for television by renowned actor and...
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1987
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In this arthouse satirical interpretation of the famous Shakespeare play, a thug named Macbeth starts a gang war at the...
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1987
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1986
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This production of the Bard of Avalon's famous stage comedy is based on a successful Australian stage production from the...
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1986
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Ran is Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's reinterpretation of William Shakespeare's King Lear. The Lear counterpart is an...
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1985
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Shakespeare's tragedy, made for British television, is given a full-blooded rendition here with the great Laurence Olivier in...
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1984
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Image Entertainment presents this performance of Handel's operatic retelling of Shakespeare's tragedy Julius Caesar. Directed...
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1984
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1984
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This off-beat interpretation of Shakespeare's similarly off-beat play is a low-budget, cinematic version of the Lindsay Kemp...
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1984
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Shakespeare buffs might be quite surprised to learn that his Midsummer Night's Dream had been turned into a rock musical, but...
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1983
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Directed by William Woodman, this retelling of the classic Shakespearean tragedy not only features traditional period...
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1983
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1983
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Wild and unwilling, newly wedded wife Katherine (Kate Austin) proves to be a bit of a challenge for confident and virile...
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1983
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Part of a television series entitled "The Shakespeare Plays," this is the conclusion of the Henry VI chronicles, which ends...
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1982
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Shakespeare's tale of the hunchbacked, ambitious Richard III's ascent to the Throne of England was produced for British...
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1982
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Part of a television series entitled "The Shakespeare Plays," this episode shows the events surrounding the beginning of the...
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1982
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This performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera, Otello, based on the play by Shakespeare, features the vocal talents of Vladimir...
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1982
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1982
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1982
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A superb performance of Prokofiev's ballet, choreographed and performed by Nureyev and the ballet company of La Scala in...
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1982
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This is another adaptation of Shakespeare's famous tragedy. It is the sad story of Othello, Moor of Venice who is slowly...
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1982
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1982
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This comedy is set upon a remote Greek island and is very loosely based on Shakespeare's classic play. The tale centers on a...
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1982
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Originally produced for television, this adaptation of William Shakespeare's historical tragedy stars David Birney as Richard...
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1982
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This adaptation of William Shakespeare's drama of an aging king and the deceit and treachery that envelops his family as they...
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1982
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Known to superstitious actors the world over as "The Scottish Play," MacBeth is widely considered one of Shakespeare's...
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1981
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This video presents a performance of William Shakespeare's classic comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream. The story of fairies...
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1981
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Part of a television series entitled "The Shakespeare Plays," this is the story of Prince Hal -- an apparent wastrel who...
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1980
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1980
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1980
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Part of a television series entitled "The Shakespeare Plays," this second of the Henry IV series has young Prince Hal...
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1980
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Part of the TV series entitled "The Shakespeare Plays," this is one of the subtlest and most enjoyable of the Shakespearian...
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1980
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1980
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Part of a television series entitled "The Shakespeare Plays," this episode depicts one of England's most beloved Kings....
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1980
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A quarrel erupts between the Duke of Hereford, Henry Bolingbroke (Jon Finch), and the Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray...
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1979
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Made-for-television adaptation of Shakespeare's classic tragedy about the Prince of Denmark's attempts to avenge the murder...
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1979
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Filmed in 1979 and released publicly one year later, The Tempest is an abstract 16-millimeter feature film based loosely on...
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1979
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1979
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This 1979 BBC/Time-Life production of Julius Caesar faithfully follows Shakespeare's original version. When the film begins,...
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1979
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1979
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Part of a television series entitled "The Shakespeare Plays," Henry VIII is the story of political intrigue and betrayal...
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1979
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Vincentio (Kenneth Colley), Duke of Vienna, is a good and kindly ruler, but his leniency has allowed vice to thrive. So he...
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1979
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1978
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This musical adaptation (songs by John Sebastian) springs from the famous love story of a similar name. This version,...
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1978
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This 1976 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Macbeth was originally broadcast on Thames Television in 1978. The...
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1978
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One of the many versions of Shakespeare's "Macbeth," this is a tale of ambition, greed, murder and guilt. ~ Tana Hobart, Rovi...
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1976
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1976
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Enjoy this ballet version of Shakespeare's play performed by the Boshoi Ballet as choreographed by Yuri Grigorovich and set...
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1976
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Based on the character of Sir John Falstaff from Shakespeare's Henry IV, the opera Falstaff was composed by the inimitable...
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1976
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This is one of the most surreal versions of the popular Shakespearian play on film. It approaches the story of the troubled...
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1976
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Patrick Magee plays the aging and confused monarch in this made-for-television adaptation of one of Shakespeare's most...
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1976
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1975
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Screenwriter John Good's rock & roll adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello is a real oddity and features some surprisingly good...
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1974
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1974
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1973
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Olivier stars in this production of the Shakespearean tragedy about greed and vengeance. ~ Rovi...
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1973
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Shakespeare's Twelfth Night is adapted to modern times in this German production. The cast find themselves in a marshy region...
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1973
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Charleton Heston directed, wrote, and starred in this adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, a historical drama...
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1972
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1972
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Perhaps William Shakespeare meant to have Lady Macbeth perform her sleepwalking scene in the nude -- it was this X-rated...
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1971
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In director Peter Brook's King Lear, Paul Scofield portrays the title character, a senile old ruler, whose susceptibility to...
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1971
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1971
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This is a Russian, black-and-white production of the great Shakespearean classic, starring Juri Jarvet. Long-considered one...
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1970
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1970
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Except for the omission of several passages in the original play, this 1970 adaptation of Julius Caesar faithfully retells...
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1970
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1970
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Perhaps the reason there are so many filmed versions of Hamlet is that in each decade every great Shakespeareian actor, and...
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1969
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1968
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Shakespeare is combined with the spaghetti western in this interesting offering. Though the language is modernized, the plot...
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1968
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This feature is a filmed stage production of the tragedy by William Shakespeare. Laurence Harvey stars as Leontes, the...
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1968
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British director Peter Hall's 1968 filmization of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, starring the...
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1968
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Franco Zeffirelli's adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is a zesty version of the classic comedy,...
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1967
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This drama is very loosely based on the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare. Alecos (Angelos Theodropoulos) returns to Athens...
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1967
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1966
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The legendary Shakespearean character Sir John Falstaff, the notoriously drunken, obese, and yet charming companion of the...
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1966
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1966
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This release constitutes a film of a stage production of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, mounted and performed by...
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1965
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This opera is an Austrian adaptation of Shakespeare's lively play about the womanizing boozer Falstaff who finds himself the...
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1965
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Hamile is a filmed record of the University of Ghana's production of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Kofi Middleton-Mends plays Hamile,...
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1965
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The multi-million dollar film extravaganza Cleopatra was too convenient a target for Britain's "Carry On" funsters to ignore....
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1965
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In this lively horror film, a number of young women have mysteriously vanished and now Inspector Doren is assigned to find...
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1965
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The 1965 Othello is literally a photographed stage play: a filmed record of the National Theatre Production of 1964, as...
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1965
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This Shakespearean release captures a special cinematic staging of the classic play Hamlet, recorded on location at Elsinore...
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1964
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This 199-minute Broadway production of Shakespeare's classic tragedy was directed for the stage by John Gielgud, who also...
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1964
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Shakespeare's 17th century masterpiece about the "Melancholy Dane" was given one of its best screen treatments by Soviet...
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1964
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The English title of this Shakespeare adaptation is Juliet and Romeo, according the heroine top billing for the first time in...
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1964
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Originally staged in 1963, War of the Roses was one of the most controversial and ambitious projects ever undertaken by...
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1964
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This 1961 adaptation of Shakespeare's magical comedy of errors was performed entirely by puppets. Let's qualify that: the...
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1963
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In this curious and inventive drama, director and co-writer Claude Chabrol purloins the Hamlet story from a certain...
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1962
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This entry at the 1962 San Francisco Film Festival came from a 1960 German television production. Produced by American...
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1960
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William Shakespeare's last completed play The Tempest was pared down to 90 minutes for this full-color TV adaptation....
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1960
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Breaking with their usual videotape tradition, the producers of NBC television's Hallmark Hall of Fame decided to commit its...
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1960
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1959
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The Rest Is Silence, a German-made attempt to update Shakespeare, is one of the best and least self-conscious of this minor...
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1959
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Julian Caesar, the board chairman of a large company deals with jealousy and treachery among his underlings as he fights to...
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1959
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1959
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Macbeth is reimagined as a samurai in feudal Japan in director Akira Kurosawa's classic adaptation of the Shakespearean...
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1957
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MGM's first big-budget science fiction film, Forbidden Planet, combined state-of-the-art special effects with a storyline...
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1956
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Twelfth Night is a Russian adaptation of Shakespeare's confused-identity comedy. Since the story, about a young girl...
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1956
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1955
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This Russian film consists of a ballet presentation of Shakespeare's immortal romantic tragedy. Bypassing the oft-presented...
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1955
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It took nerve to transpose Shakespeare's Macbeth into a 1930s gangster story using "tough guy" jargon, but Joe Macbeth very...
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1955
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Famed Russian director Serge Bondarchuk steps before the cameras in this Soviet adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello. The...
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1955
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This ballet version of Shakespeare's play is performed by the Boshoi Ballet, with Galina Ulanova portraying Juilet. ~ Rovi...
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1954
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1954
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Generally forgotten today, Romeo and Juliet is a satisfactory, if perfunctory, adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal tragedy....
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1954
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1954
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Even allowing for its translation into modern French, this is a remarkably unfaithful adaptation of William Shakespeare's...
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1953
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Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate is a musical within a musical -- altogether appropriate, since its source material, Shakespeare's...
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1953
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1953
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The Merry Wives of Windsor contains one of those complicated, tangled love plots that are typical of Shakespeare's comedies....
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1952
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1952
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1950
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This drama tells of the powerful rise of emperor Julius Caesar along with his swift fall in this adaptation of William...
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1950
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Shakespeare's tragic tale of the rise and fall of ambitious 12th-century Scottish warrior MacBeth has proven irresistible to...
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1948
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Although criticized by Shakespeare devotees upon its release because of director, producer, and star Laurence Olivier's...
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1948
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Ronald Colman won an Academy Award for his portrayal of an off-the-beam actor in A Double Life. A beloved stage star, Anthony...
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1947
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1947
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1944
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Dente per Dente is an Italian adaptation of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. Predicated on the notion that absolute power...
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1943
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Enjoy this version of Shakespeare's play starring Mexican comedian Cantinflas. ~ Rovi...
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1940
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1936
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1936
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1935
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In this musical-comedy, a good-hearted composer sees a beautiful woman at a traffic light and is inspired to write a song....
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1934
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1929
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This routine drama was spiced up by a good cast and solid directing. A clerk (Lloyd Hughes) loses his job, so his wife,...
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1927
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Even without the benefit of sound, the 1922 German adaptation of Othello seems more operatic than Shakespearean. This may be...
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1922
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Denmark's leading silent-screen actress Asta Nielsen had the audacity to play the title role in Hamlet, produced by her in...
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1921
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1917
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1916
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Theda Bara couldn't have gotten any farther away from her vamp roles than the part of Juliet in this silent adaptation of...
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1916
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1916
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1914
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1913
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In 1912, Frederick Warde, a respected actor on the legitimate stage, who, over the course of a long career, had worked...
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1911
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1910
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1910
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1909
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The earliest surviving screen version of William Shakespeare's romantic comedy, this Vitagraph production managed to cram...
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1909
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1908
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1900
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1899
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This video profiles the historical city of Ashland as well as a backstage glimpse. ~ Rovi...
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