Shakespeare in Hollywood: A New PlayWinner! of the 2004 Helen Hayes Award for Best New Play It's 1934, and Shakespeare's most famous fairies, Oberon and Puck, have magically materialized on the Warner Bros. Hollywood set of Max Reinhardt's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Instantly smitten by the glitz and glamour of show biz, the two are ushered onto the silver screen to play (who else?) themselves. With a little help from a feisty flower, blonde bombshells, movie moguls, and arrogant "asses" are tossed into loop |
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... mentioned something in passing and we both had that ' ping ' , light - bulb moment . A film I should have known about , but didn't- Max Reinhardt's 1936 movie of A Midsummer Night's Dream was even more amazing in its making than.
... mentioned something in passing and we both had that ' ping ' , light - bulb moment . A film I should have known about , but didn't- Max Reinhardt's 1936 movie of A Midsummer Night's Dream was even more amazing in its making than.
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... dream play was an outrage - very funny , but an outrage nonetheless . And there it was , the embryo of a play which embraced the Shakespeare indus- try , Hollywood exploitation , US cultural imperialism , the clash of ideologies ...
... dream play was an outrage - very funny , but an outrage nonetheless . And there it was , the embryo of a play which embraced the Shakespeare indus- try , Hollywood exploitation , US cultural imperialism , the clash of ideologies ...
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... Dream " directed by Max Reinhardt . The film studios in the 1930s recognized quickly that movies based on Shakespeare plays were " box office poison . " However , in doing research for this play , it soon became clear to me that the ...
... Dream " directed by Max Reinhardt . The film studios in the 1930s recognized quickly that movies based on Shakespeare plays were " box office poison . " However , in doing research for this play , it soon became clear to me that the ...
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... true that Joe E. Brown , who played Flute , had just fin- ished filming the third of three baseball movies based on the short stories of Ring Lardner . Jimmy Cagney's movie previous to the " Dream " was a Western , " The Frisco.
... true that Joe E. Brown , who played Flute , had just fin- ished filming the third of three baseball movies based on the short stories of Ring Lardner . Jimmy Cagney's movie previous to the " Dream " was a Western , " The Frisco.
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A New Play Ken Ludwig. " Dream " was a Western , " The Frisco Kid . " To me , one of the most surprising aspects of Shakespeare in the movies is that dozens of silent pictures were made from Shakespeare's plays before the advent of sound ...
A New Play Ken Ludwig. " Dream " was a Western , " The Frisco Kid . " To me , one of the most surprising aspects of Shakespeare in the movies is that dozens of silent pictures were made from Shakespeare's plays before the advent of sound ...
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