Romeo and Juliet
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choreography by de Mille
- In Agnes de Mille
…arranged dances for the films Romeo and Juliet (1936) and Oklahoma! (1955), directed plays, and choreographed television programs.
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discussed in biography
- In George Cukor: The films of the mid- to late 1930s
” Cukor’s next film, Romeo and Juliet (1936), was one of Irving Thalberg’s last productions. A handsome version of William Shakespeare’s play, it managed to overcome the casting of Norma Shearer and Leslie Howard, both of whom were at least twice the age of the play’s star-crossed teenaged lovers.…
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role of Barrymore
- In John Barrymore
at Eight (1933), Counsellor-at-Law (1933), Romeo and Juliet (1936), and The Great Profile (1940), in which he lampooned his own image. Though his talents were prodigious and he was considered one of the greatest and handsomest actors of the the silent and early talkie eras of film, Barrymore became better…
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Thalberg
- In Irving Thalberg
…Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), Romeo and Juliet (1936), and Camille (1937), stemmed mainly from Thalberg’s influence. With Naughty Marietta (1935) he initiated a long series of successful musicals starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. About the same time, he helped revive the Marx Brothers’ careers by producing two of…
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