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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 21, 2018 22:25:34 GMT
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Post by mikef6 on Sept 22, 2018 0:10:37 GMT
BATouttaheckJames Cagney is a stand-out as Bottom. He manages to show his range outside of his stereotypical gangster roles long before “Yankee Doodle Dandy.” He is surrounded by other unlikely Shakespeareans including Frank McHugh (seated left), Joe E. Brown, and Hugh Herbert, all of whom acquit themselves. This was Olivia de Haviland’s debut as a lead player. I have read that Dick Powell felt out-of-place and miscast, but he does great. His line deliveries are natural and sound spontaneous. Of course, Lysander’s lines – as with all the other movie stars’ parts – were carefully pared down into easily managed sections. The one movie star who you might think had the voice for Shakespeare, Victor Jory as Oberon, and who speaks it like an old hand at the game, had actually never acted Shakespeare before. The 13-year-old Mickey Rooney could have been an almost perfect Puck, except that his high-pitched giggle, which is ever present, does tend to get on one’s nerves. Whatever you may think of the overall result, this is must-see for many reasons.
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Post by mikef6 on Sept 22, 2018 0:22:59 GMT
amyghost I saw a brief clip of the Redgrave "As You Like It," maybe 30 seconds long, and was immediately scrambling all over the Internet trying to find out where I could see it. No luck. If it played a movie theater anywhere near me, I totally missed it. For the moment, that is my Shakespearean Holy Grail. My AYLI for my 2016 trek through the entire canon was the 1936 film production with a very young pre-world's-greatest-actor Laurence Olivier (the only Shakespeare film role for which he was NOT nominated for an Oscar) and Austrian born Elizabeth Bergner as Rosalind. David Lean is credited as editor.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 22, 2018 0:25:26 GMT
mikef6 Brando and Company was my first Shakespeare via Julius I suspect that Midsummer was my second thanks to Million $$$ Movie ! I liked Rooney as Puck .. that giggle always makes me smile... dunno why .. it just does !
Willy S wrote so many great things and they have been so well done that it's REALLY difficult to pick a "fav"..
Here's another contender … which may have been my #3 exposure to Mr. S They dance as well as sing The musical team of Wynn and Whitmore The Broadway cast visited my dad where he worked and they took a photo of him with Alfred Drake … it's in my original cast album now.
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Post by amyghost on Sept 22, 2018 12:36:32 GMT
amyghost I saw a brief clip of the Redgrave "As You Like It," maybe 30 seconds long, and was immediately scrambling all over the Internet trying to find out where I could see it. No luck. If it played a movie theater anywhere near me, I totally missed it. For the moment, that is my Shakespearean Holy Grail. My AYLI for my 2016 trek through the entire canon was the 1936 film production with a very young pre-world's-greatest-actor Laurence Olivier (the only Shakespeare film role for which he was NOT nominated for an Oscar) and Austrian born Elizabeth Bergner as Rosalind. David Lean is credited as editor. That still of Olivier alone is enough to make me rush out and find this. Oh, that burning gaze...>swoon< . I've seen several stills of cute-as-a-button Bergner from this film, too. Lucky you for getting even that brief a glimpse of Redgrave's AYLI (did that sound unintentionally naughty?). I live near DC, which is probably the closest major city it might have played at (most likely the AFI Silver, in the 'burbs), and I don't recall hearing about it. If I missed it, curse the luck, because I can't find even a snippet of it anyplace. Odd, since Redgrave is getting on, and due for some major retrospectives, that this film isn't making it to home format; but then again, it's odd and frustrating that a number of earlier ASC film productions don't appear to be available either. My disc of the '68 MSND was an on-demand pressing I bought a couple of years ago from Amazon, and now it's no longer to be found anywhere.
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Post by Larcen26 on Sept 24, 2018 14:25:02 GMT
I'll put in a vote for the 2006 As You Like It.
If for no other reason than the setting and visuals are fantastic. And Alfred Molina is excellent.
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