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  Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford.
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The Taming of the Shrew
Also known as La mégère apprivoisée in France
(1929) United States of America
B&W : Eight reels / 73 minutes
Directed by Sam Taylor

Cast: Mary Pickford [Katherine], Douglas Fairbanks [Petruchio], Edwin Maxwell [Baptista], Joseph Cawthorn [Gremio], Clyde Cook [Grumio], Geoffrey Wardell [Hortensio], Dorothy Jordon [Bianca]

The Mary Pickford Company and The Elton Corporation production; distributed by United Artists Corporation. / Produced by Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. Screenplay adapted by Sam Taylor with additional dialogue by Sam Taylor, from the play The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare. Production design by William Cameron Menzies and Laurence Irving. Costume design by Mitchell Leisen and Gilbert Adrian. Cinematography by Karl Struss. Sound by David Forrest. Film editor, Allan McNeil. / © 1 November 1929 by [?] The Mary Pickford Company and The Elton Corporation? [LP825]. © 1966 by The Mary Pickford Corporation and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Released 26 October 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Unknown sound-on-disc synchronized sound system. / Seven minutes of footage was removed to tighten editing, and new music and sound effects were added for the film’s 1966 rerelease. Credits in the 1966 version list Earle Browne, Lucky Humberstone and Walter Mayo as production staff. / Full-sound film.

Comedy-Drama: Historical.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F2 n. F2.5526.

Survival status: Prints exist in the film holdings of Cohen Media Group (Raymond Rohauer collection) [35mm positive]; and in the Mary Pickford Institute for Film Education film collection [35mm duplicate negative, 35mm fine-grain duplicate master positive, 35mm duplicate positives].

Current rights holder: [?] Cohen Media Group?

Keywords: Authors: William Shakespeare (1564?-1616) - Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 20 May 2018.

References: Film credits, film viewing : AFI-F2 n. F2.5526; Bogdanovich-Dwan p. 85; Carroll-Matinee p. 103; Eyman-Pickford p. 333; Maeder-Hollywood pp. 65, 203; Shipman-Cinema p. 104; Skretvedt-Magic p. 410; Vermilye-Twenties pp. 33, 254-256 : Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 4 December 1929, p. 14 : Website-Pickford.

Home video: DVD.

Streaming: Amazon.

 
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