Master Will Shakespeare (S)
1936 · Movie · 11 min. · United States
A brief biography of the Bard beginning and ending in Stratford. After grammar school and marriage to Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare goes to London and gets a job tending the horses during performances at Burbage's Blackfriar's Theatre, is promoted to prompter, and soon writes his first play to be staged, I Henry VI. Success as a writer, actor, and part owner of the Globe comes quickly. The film imagines Shakespeare as lonely and melancholy, with the romantic and doomed love of "Romeo and Juliet" as his favorite work.
Direction Jacques Tourneur
Cast Carey Wilson · Lionel Belmore · Ralph Bushman · Charles Coleman · John George · Anthony Kemble-Cooper
Soundtrack Herbert Stothart
Screenplay Richard Goldstone
Original title Master Will Shakespeare (S)
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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