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A Midsummer Night's Dream is a 1935 American romantic comedy fantasy film of William Shakespeare 's play, directed by Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle, and starring James Cagney, Mickey Rooney, Olivia de Havilland, Jean Muir, Joe E. Brown, Dick Powell, Ross Alexander, Anita Louise, Victor Jory and Ian Hunter.
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.
- William Dieterle, Max Reinhardt
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- 2 min
Midsummer Night's Dream, A (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Fool, Upon Thy Eyes... Forest creatures spying, Lysander (Dick Powell) escorting Hermia (Olivia de Havilland) through the wood, napping then visited by Puck (Mickey Rooney), in the Warner Bros' production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1935.
- Max Reinhardt
- Ian Hunter
92% Tomatometer 13 Reviews 63% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings In this classic screen adaptation of Shakespeare's fantastical play, the royal wedding plans of Theseus, the duke of Athens (Ian Hunter...
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- Comedy
- William Dieterle, Max Reinhardt
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) - Mickey Rooney as Puck or Robin Goodfellow - a Fairy - IMDb.
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1935. Director: Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle. Notable Cast: James Cagney, Mickey Rooney. Max Reinhardt’s production for Warner Bros. was the first screen adaptation of Shakespeare’s play, and it was based on Reinhardt’s earlier stage production at the legendary Hollywood Bowl.
Domestic rental gross: $1,543,447. Other versions: a German silent film of 1925 starring Werner Krauss as Bottom, Ruth Weyher as Hermia and Tamara as Oberon, directed by Hans Neumann; an animated Czech feature of 1961; a BBC TV movie also of 1961; and a filmed performance of the New York City Ballet in 1966.
