A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935 film)
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| Produced by | Henry Blanke |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare |
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| Music by | Felix Mendelssohn |
| Cinematography | Hal Mohr |
| Edited by | Ralph Dawson |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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133 minutes 143 minutes (with Overture and Exit Music) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $981,000 |
| Box office | $1.229 million |
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a 1935 American romance 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 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.
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