Romeo and Juliet
(1916) American
B&W : Eight reels
Directed by John W. Noble

Cast: Francis X. Bushman [Romeo], Beverly Bayne [Juliet], Horace Vinton, John Davidson, Eric Hudson, Edmund Elton, Leonard Grover Sr., Fritz Leiber, Olaf Skavlan, W. Lawson Butt, Robert Cummings, Alexandre J. Herbert, Edwin Boring, William Morris, Joseph Dailey, Adella Barker, Helen Dunbar, Genevieve Reynolds, Ethel Mantell, Barry Maxwell, William H. Burton, Harry Sothern, Leonard Grover Jr., Lionel Belmore, Marie Booth, Violet Hall-Caine, [?] Richard Barthelmess?

Quality Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Metro Pictures Corporation. / Production supervised by Maxwell Karger. Scenario by John Arthur, Rudolph de Cordova and John W. Noble, from the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Assistant directors Edward Elsner, Rudolph de Cordova, Edward Ewers, Leander de Cordova, Harry Sothern and Francis X. Bushman. Technical director Edward J. Schulter. Cinematography by R.J. Bergquist. Musical arrangements by Irene Berg and Samuel Berg. / © 17 October 1916 by Metro Pictures Corporation [LP9354]. Released 19 October 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Some exterior locations were taken at Brighton Beach, New York. [?] Barthelmess may have appeared in this film as an extra. The film was released in the United Kingdom by Ruffel’s.

Drama.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.3772.

Survival Status: (unknown)

Keywords: Authors: William Shakespeare - Death - USA: New York: Brighton Beach

Listing updated: 12 December 2005.

References: AFI-F1 nn. F1.3772, F1.3773; Ball-Shakespeare pp. 224d, 235-239, 240, 363-364, 389; Everson-American p. 369; Katchmer-Eighty p. 16; Lahue-Gentlemen p. 41; Maeder-Hollywood p. 86.