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A Midsummer Night's Dream is a 1935 American film adaptation of the Shakespearean play of the same name. It is directed by Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle , produced by Warner Bros. , and stars James Cagney , Mickey Rooney , Olivia de Havilland (in her film debut), Jean Muir , Joe E. Brown , Dick Powell , Ross Alexander , Anita Louise ...
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Directed by William Dieterle, Max Reinhardt. With Ian Hunter, Verree Teasdale, Hobart Cavanaugh, Dick Powell. Two couples and a troupe of actors have an encounter with some mischievous fairies in the forest.
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- Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
- William Dieterle, Max Reinhardt
- 1935-10-30
Midsummer Night's Dream, A - (Wide Release Trailer) James Cagney and Olivia de Havilland star in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), based on the William Shakespeare play.
- Max Reinhardt
- Ian Hunter
Shakespeare’s romp involving young lovers and forest fairies finds an appropriate outlet in a filmic take that employs classical music, elaborate ballets, and a cast mixing classically trained...
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- Comedy
- William Dieterle, Max Reinhardt
Academy Award winners James Cagney and Olivia de Havilland join an all-star cast in Shakespeare's classic romantic comedy of the one night each year when magic infuses the world of humans,...
COMMENT: A box-office disaster in England and Australia, but a reasonable success in the U.S.A., "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a captivating and enchanting film. True, it has little of Shakespeare's poetry. Perhaps wisely, it concentrates on the fairies and the low humor of Bottom and his pals.
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When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused... Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile, a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play.
