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Romeo and Juliet is a 1936 American film adapted from the play by William Shakespeare, directed by George Cukor from a screenplay by Talbot Jennings. The film stars Leslie Howard as Romeo and Norma Shearer as Juliet , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and the supporting cast features John Barrymore , Basil Rathbone , and Andy Devine .
Leslie Howard Steiner (3 April 1893 – 1 June 1943) was an English actor, director, producer and writer. [1] He wrote many stories and articles for The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair and was one of the biggest box-office draws and movie idols of the 1930s.
The latter two were both, in their time, the highest-grossing Shakespeare film ever. [202] Romeo and Juliet was first filmed in the silent era, by Georges Méliès, although his film is now lost. [201] The play was first heard on film in The Hollywood Revue of 1929, in which John Gilbert recited the balcony scene opposite Norma Shearer. [203]
The funeral home’s license and Lankford’s funeral director license were permanently revoked on Aug. 3. The Associated Press left a message Tuesday morning seeking comment from Lankford's attorney.
Olivia Hussey Eisley, the British-Argentine actor who shot to fame as a teenager starring as Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet” and went on to star in the ...
George Cukor, who directed Shearer in Romeo and Juliet, offered this character sketch of the actress: “I found that Norma Shearer, when I made Romeo and Juliet, is a nervous, highly self-critical woman who has schooled herself to give an impression of self-confidence. If one had accepted that impression, one would have gone far astray in ...
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller (15 August 1912 – 14 May 2003) was an English film and stage actress who enjoyed a varied acting career that spanned nearly 60 years. Writer Joel Hirschorn, in his 1984 compilation Rating the Movie Stars, described her as "a no-nonsense actress who literally took command of the screen whenever she appeared on film".