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Romeo and Juliet
(1916) United States of America
B&W : Eight reels
Directed by John W. Noble

Cast: Francis X. Bushman [Romeo], Beverly Bayne [Juliet], Horace Vinton, John Davidson, Eric Hudson, Edmund Elton, Leonard Grover Sr., Fritz Leiber, Olaf Skavlan, W. Lawson Butt, Robert Cummings, Alexandre J. Herbert, Edwin Boring, William Morris, Joseph Dailey, Adella Barker, Helen Dunbar, Genevieve Reynolds, Ethel Mantell, Barry Maxwell, William H. Burton, Harry Sothern, Leonard Grover Jr., Lionel Belmore, Marie Booth, Violet Hall-Caine, [?] Richard Barthelmess [extra]?

Quality Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by John Arthur, Rudolph de Cordova and John W. Noble, from the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Production supervised by Maxwell Karger. Assistant directors, Edward Elsner, Rudolph de Cordova, Edward Ewers, Leander de Cordova, Harry Sothern and Francis X. Bushman. Technical director, Edward J. Schulter. Cinematography by R.J. Bergquist. Musical arrangements by Irene Berg and Samuel Berg. / © 17 October 1916 by Metro Pictures Corporation [LP9354]. Released 19 October 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Some exterior locations were taken at Brighton Beach, New York. The film was released in the United Kingdom by Ruffel’s.

Drama.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.3772.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Authors: William Shakespeare (1564?-1616) - Death - USA: New York: Brighton Beach

Listing updated: 4 June 2010.

References: AFI-F1 nn. F1.3772, F1.3773; Ball-Shakespeare pp. 224d, 235-239, 240, 363-364, 389; Everson-American p. 369; Katchmer-Eighty p. 16; Lahue-Gentlemen p. 41; Maeder-Hollywood p. 86.

 
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