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Romeo and Juliet [Videorecording] / A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture.

Contributor(s): Cukor, George Dewey, 1899- | Jennings, Talbot | Stothart, Herbert, 1885-1949 | De Mille, Agnes | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 | Shearer, Norma, 1900- | Howard, Leslie, 1893-1943 | Barrymore, John, 1882-1942 | Oliver, Edna May | Rathbone, Basil, 1892-1967 | Smith, C. Aubrey, Sir, 1863-1948 | Devine, Andy, 1905-1977 | Metro-Goldwyn-MayerMaterial type: FilmFilmReference number:25565652Publication details: Culver City, CA : MGM/UA Home Video, c1992. Description: 1 videocassette (VHS) (126 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 inISBN: 0792811518 :Subject(s): Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Film and video adaptations | Feature films | Love in motion picturesProduction credits: Director, George Cukor ; producer, Irving Thalberg ; screenplay, Talbot Jennings ; cinematography, William Daniels ; editing, Margaret Booth ; dance direction, Agnes De Mille ; music, Herbert Stothart.Cast: Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore, Edna May Oliver, Basil Rathbone, C. Aubrey Smith, Andy Devine.Summary: Romantic tragedy of the son and daughter of two feuding Veronese families who fall in love and secretly marry. Juliet fakes her own death to avoid a forced marriage to another; Romeo, believing her dead, drinks poison in her tomb. When Juliet awakes and finds him dead, she commits suicide.
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VHS format.

Videocassette release of the 1936 motion picture.

Based on the play by William Shakespeare.

Director, George Cukor ; producer, Irving Thalberg ; screenplay, Talbot Jennings ; cinematography, William Daniels ; editing, Margaret Booth ; dance direction, Agnes De Mille ; music, Herbert Stothart.

Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore, Edna May Oliver, Basil Rathbone, C. Aubrey Smith, Andy Devine.

Romantic tragedy of the son and daughter of two feuding Veronese families who fall in love and secretly marry. Juliet fakes her own death to avoid a forced marriage to another; Romeo, believing her dead, drinks poison in her tomb. When Juliet awakes and finds him dead, she commits suicide.

Film Institute Collection.

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