Romeo and Juliet (1936)

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Irving G. Thalberg produced numerous lavish features to showcase his wife’s talents, everyone knows this. One cannot read a biography or trivia notes about Norma Shearer without coming across this factoid. These films were of varying degrees of success, and smack dab in the middle is this version of Romeo & Juliet.

Far too old for both of their roles, Shearer and Leslie Howard loo... read more

(OK) Cukor just dances with his camera around stars ego, amd MGM elegant, loyal incursion in a classic. The introduction of characters and and of the love affair are loyal to Hollywood screenwriting, the language is yeah, hard to get, and even harder in funny support form John Barrymore and Edna May Oliver

In this classic Hollywood take on Shakespeare's tragic romance, dashing young Romeo (Leslie Howard), a Montague, falls in love with the radiant Juliet (Norma Shearer), a member of the Capulet family, the Montagues' sworn enemies. Willing to defy the families' feud, the two secretly get married, however their happy day turns tragic when Juliet's cousin, Tybalt (Basil Rathbone) kills Romeo's best friend, Mercutio (John Barrymore), prompting Romeo to retaliate.