A Midsummer Night's Dream
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. Produced by Henry Blanke and Hal B. Wallis for Warner Brothers, and adapted by Charles Kenyon and Mary C. McCall Jr. from Reinhardt's Hollywood Bowl production of the previous year, the film is about the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors, who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the story is set. The play, which is categorized as a comedy, is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world. Felix Mendelssohn's music was extensively used, as re-orchestrated by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. The ballet sequences featuring the fairies were choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska.
Plot
Part one
Awards
Cast
- Angelo Rossitto
- Anita Louise
- Arthur Treacher
- Billy Barty
- Dewey Robinson
- Dick Powell
- Frank McHugh
- Grant Mitchell
- Helen Westcott
- Hobart Cavanaugh
- Hugh Herbert
- Ian Hunter
- James Cagney
- Jean Muir
- Joe E. Brown
- Kenneth Anger
- Mickey Rooney
- Olivia de Havilland
- Otis Harlan
- Rags Ragland
- Ross Alexander
- Verree Teasdale
- Victor Jory
More details
| author | Charles Kenyon Mary C. McCall, Jr. |
|---|---|
| award | Academy Award for Best Cinematography Academy Award for Best Film Editing |
| director | Max Reinhardt William Dieterle |
| editor | Ralph Dawson |
| genre | adventure comedy fantasy |
| keywords | abandon awaken changeling estrange follow love love potion meet nothing pyramus and thisbe sleep stage play steal the king wake up wed young woman |
| musicBy | Felix Mendelssohn |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Cinematography Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Picture |
| producer | Henry Blanke |
| productionCompany | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| publisher | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| theme | romantic comedy |