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A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
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Theseus, Duke of Athens, is going to marry Hyppolyta, Queen of the Amazons. Demetrius is engaged with Hermia... See full summary » Writers:William Shakespeare (play), Charles Kenyon (arranged for the screen by), and 1 more credit » |
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Verree Teasdale | ... | |
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Hobart Cavanaugh | ... | |
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Ross Alexander | ... | |
| Olivia de Havilland | ... |
Hermia, In love with Lysander
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Jean Muir | ... |
Helena, In love with Demetrius
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Grant Mitchell | ... | |
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Frank McHugh | ... | |
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Dewey Robinson | ... | |
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| Joe E. Brown | ... | ||
| Hugh Herbert | ... | ||
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Otis Harlan | ... | |
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Arthur Treacher | ... |
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Theseus, Duke of Athens, is going to marry Hyppolyta, Queen of the Amazons. Demetrius is engaged with Hermia, but Hermia loves Lysander. Helena loves Demetrius. Oberon and Titania, of the kingdom of fairies have a slight quarrel about whether or not the boy Titania is raising will join Titania's band or Oberon's, so Oberon tries to get him from her by using some magic. But they're not alone in that forest.Lysander and Hermina have there a rendezvous, Helena and Demetrius are there, too as well as some actors, who are practicing a play for the ongoing wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta. Due to some misunderstandings by Puck, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused... Written by Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
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Puck: You coward! Are you bragging to the stars? Telling the bushes that you look for wars, and wilt not come?
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Music by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (as Felix Mendelssohn)
Adapted by Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Heard as background music performed by the Warner Bros. Symphony
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Composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold was personally chosen by director Max Reinhardt. Both agreed in an early production stage to use the original incidental music written by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy as the film's soundtrack. (Reinhardt did a stage production of the play before and used Mendelssohn's music.) As the film runs over two hours it was obvious that Mendelssohn's composition would be too short. Instead of just repeating several musical cues to fit the film's final length Korngold adapted the incidental music and parts of some other compositions by Mendelssohn, re-orchestrated them for a larger orchestra and choir (most notably heard in his Wedding March version at the end) and composed some short musical bridges by himself. Thus he created a complete symphonic score for the movie based on Mendelssohn's music. However, he chose to remain uncredited as a composer and insisted on giving full musical credit to Mendelssohn. See more »Quotes
Demetrius, in Love with Hermia: [Puck is leading Demetrius astray through a fog] Lysander! Speak again! You runaway. You coward. Are you fled?Puck: You coward! Are you bragging to the stars? Telling the bushes that you look for wars, and wilt not come?
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The fairies Pease-Blossom, Cobweb, Moth and Mustard-Seed are onscreen inthe character list, but not the actors who portrayed them. See more »
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"Scherzo in E-Minor"Music by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (as Felix Mendelssohn)
Adapted by Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Heard as background music performed by the Warner Bros. Symphony
Orchestra conducted by Leo F. Forbstein See more »
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