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Shakespeare in Hollywood's Golden Age |
In 1935 and 1936, Warner Brothers and MGM produced two major motion pictures of Shakespeare plays, each packed with well known stars and utilizing all the technical resources of the studio system in its heyday. Patricia King Hanson considers what artistic aspirations may have led Hollywood studios to this interest in Shakespeare—and what kinds of films resulted.
Patricia King Hanson
Executive editor and project director of the American Film Institute catalog of feature films
Shakespeare movies and the 1930s studios
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Warner Brothers’ A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935)
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MGM’s Romeo and Juliet (1936)
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Dan Sayre Groesbeck. Edna May Oliver as the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet. Watercolor, ca. 1936. Folger Shakespeare Library.
Warner Bros./Photofest. © Warner Bros.