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Other InformationAwardsBest Art Direction Academy Awards [1937] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Picture Academy Awards [1937] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Actor in a Supporting Role Academy Awards [1937] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Actress in a Leading Role Academy Awards [1937] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Plot SummaryDirector George Cukor and producer Irving G. Thalberg`s adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, a lavish production of Shakespeare`s tale about two star-crossed lovers, is extremely well-produced and acted. In fact, it is so well-done, that it is easy to for... TaglineScenes of combat that will stir your pulse...tender haunting romance that will stay ever fresh in your memory...spectacular beauty that will set a feast for your eyes...in the greatest melodramatic romance of all time...presented as it has never been... Related MoviesRomeo+Juliet [Version of] (Year of movie: 1996) Romeo and Juliet [Version of] (Year of movie: 1900) DiscographySinglesPavane [1926] Romeo and Juliet [1869] |
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Trivia and QuotesQuotes Juliet: Romeo. Romeo. Wherefore art thou Romeo?
Trivia William Randolph Hearst campaigned heavily for Marion Davies (Hearst`s mistress) to star as Juliet. However, MGM thought Davies would be miscast and should only stick to comedies. The role of Romeo was originally offered to John Gielgud, who had just had a triumph in a stage production of the play in London in which he alternated the roles of Romeo and Mercutio with Laurence Olivier. Gielgud not only turned the part down (thinking that Shakespeare couldn`t effectively be presented on screen), but was so disgusted by the finished film that he walked out of the theater after watching only fifteen minutes of it. An autographed copy of the script adaptation, containing the signatures of 27 cast and crew members (including Rathbone, Howard and Shearer) was donated to the University of Idaho library by Talbot Jennings in 1939. Because she wanted to play the Nurse in this film, Edna May Oliver turned down Universal`s offer to reprise her stage role of Parthy Ann Hawks in the 1936 film version of Show Boat (1936). The Nurse turned out to be Oliver`s only Shakespearean role. Basil Rathbone played Tybalt in this film even though he had triumphed in the role of Romeo on Broadway in 1934, opposite the Juliet of Katharine Cornell. The role of Romeo was turned down by Robert Donat. The role of Romeo was turned down by Laurence Olivier. Contains the only on-screen sword fight that expert swordsman Basil Rathbone won in his entire career. The role of Mercutio was the only Shakespearean role that John Barrymore ever played complete onscreen. His only other screen appearances in Shakespearean roles were in a screen test for a never-made film version of "Hamlet", a soliloquy as Richard III in the 1929 film "The Show of Shows", and a role in the film "Playmates", as a hammy Shakespearean actor. The film`s literary consultant was Professor William Strunk Jr., co-author of the famous treatise on the English language, Strunk and White`s "The Elements of Style". This was the last film producer Irving Thalberg personally produced before his death in September, 1936. | ||
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