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A Midsummer Night's Dream Overview:

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) was a Comedy - Fantasy Film directed by William Dieterle and Max Reinhardt and produced by Hal B. Wallis, Henry Blanke and Jack L. Warner.

Academy Awards 1935 --- Ceremony Number 8 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best CinematographyHal MohrWon
Best Film EditingRalph DawsonWon
Best PictureWarner Bros.Nominated
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A Midsummer Night's Dream BlogHub Articles:

Sonho de uma Noite de Verão (1935) / A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)

By Lê on Jul 3, 2019 From Critica Retro

Sonho de uma Noite de Verão (1935) / A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) Eu fiquei conhecendo “Sonho de uma Noite de Verão” de Shakespeare através da Disney. Um curta-metragem animado de 1999 estrelando Mickey, Minnie, Donald e Margarida contou a história de maneira cômica &#82... Read full article

Sonho de uma Noite de Verão (1935) / A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)

By Lê on Nov 30, -0001 From Critica Retro

Sonho de uma Noite de Verão (1935) / A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) Eu fiquei conhecendo “Sonho de uma Noite de Verão” de Shakespeare através da Disney. Um curta-metragem animado de 1999 estrelando Mickey, Minnie, Donald e Margarida contou a história de maneira cômica &#82... Read full article

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A Midsummer Night's Dream Quotes:

Demetrius, in Love with Hermia: [Puck is leading Demetrius astray through a fog] Lysander! Speak again! You runaway. You coward. Are you fled?
Puck: You coward! Are you bragging to the stars? Telling the bushes that you look for wars, and wilt not come?
Flute, the Bellows-Mender: "I'll meet thee, Pyramus, at Ninny's tomb."
Quince, the Carpenter: Ninny's?
Flute, the Bellows-Mender: Ninny's.
Quince, the Carpenter: Ninny's.
Flute, the Bellows-Mender: Ninny's.
Quince, the Carpenter: "Ninus' tomb", man!
Flute, the Bellows-Mender: [Flute begins to repeat Quince's words and gestures] Ninus' tomb, man!
Quince, the Carpenter: But you must not speak that yet!
Flute, the Bellows-Mender: But you must not speak that yet!
Quince, the Carpenter: Ohhh...
Flute, the Bellows-Mender: Ohhh...
Quince, the Carpenter: That you answer to Pyramus!
Flute, the Bellows-Mender: That you answer to Pyramus!
Quince, the Carpenter: You speak all your part at once, cues and all!
Flute, the Bellows-Mender: You speak all your part at once, cues... I won't play anymore.
Puck: Lord, what fools these mortals be!
Hermia, in Love with Lysander: [to Helena] How low am I, you painted maypole? Speak! How low am I? I am not yet so low but that my nails can reach into your eyes!
Demetrius, in Love with Hermia: Where are Lysander and fair Hermia? The one I'll slay; the other slayeth me.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream Facts
Mickey Rooney is usually thought to have been eleven when he made this film. He was actually 14 during filming.
The first Shakespeare adaptation to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
Olivia de Havilland was cast in the film after successfully playing Hermia in the Hollywood Bowl production.
Composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold was personally chosen by director Max Reinhardt. Both agreed in an early production stage to use the original incidental music written by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy as the film's soundtrack. (Reinhardt did a stage production of the play before and used Mendelssohn's music.) As the film runs over two hours it was obvious that Mendelssohn's composition would be too short. Instead of just repeating several musical cues to fit the film's final length Korngold adapted the incidental music and parts of some other compositions by Mendelssohn, re-orchestrated them for a larger orchestra and choir (most notably heard in his Wedding March version at the end) and composed some short musical bridges by himself. Thus he created a complete symphonic score for the movie based on Mendelssohn's music. However, he chose to remain uncredited as a composer and insisted on giving full musical credit to Mendelssohn.
Film debut of Olivia de Havilland, although it was released after her next two films, Alibi Ike and The Irish in Us.
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