Discover
OSCAR WINNER:
Best Cinematography
Best Editing
Love is blind, fickle and true. And under the sway of capricious fairies it becomes blinder ( a queen romances a donkey), more fickle (best friends swoon over each other's beau) and truest of all (lovers repledge their devotion). "Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
Now, until the break of day, Through this house each fairy stray. Academy Award winners James Cagney and Olivia de Havilland front an all-star cast in this 1935 adaptation of Shakespeare's classic romantic comedy of the one night each year when magic infuses the world of humans, fairies walk among men and love will change the order of all things in a "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
Nominated for the "Best Picture" Oscar, this classic film did pick up Academy Awards for "Best Cinematography" and for "Best Editing."
Original Release
10/30/1935
US Release
10/30/1935
Links
Cast
Name | Character |
---|
Ian Hunter | Theseus - Duke of Athens / Theseus |
Verree Teasdale | Hippolyta - Queen of the Amazons - Betrothed to Theseus / Hippolyta |
Hobart Cavanaugh | Philostrate - Master of Revels to Theseus / Philostrate |
Dick Powell | Lysander - In Love with Hermia / Lysander |
Ross Alexander | Demetrius - In Love with Hermia / Demetrius |
Olivia de Havilland | Hermia - In Love with Lysander / Hermia |
Jean Muir | Helena - In Love with Demetrius / Helena |
Grant Mitchell | Egeus - Father to Hermia / Egeus |
Frank McHugh | Quince - the Carpenter / Quince |
Dewey Robinson | Snug - the Joiner / Snug |
Directors
William Dieterle, Max Reinhardt
Writers
William Shakespeare, Charles Kenyon, Mary C. McCall Jr.
Cast
Name | Character |
---|
Ian Hunter | Theseus - Duke of Athens / Theseus |
Verree Teasdale | Hippolyta - Queen of the Amazons - Betrothed to Theseus / Hippolyta |
Hobart Cavanaugh | Philostrate - Master of Revels to Theseus / Philostrate |
Dick Powell | Lysander - In Love with Hermia / Lysander |
Ross Alexander | Demetrius - In Love with Hermia / Demetrius |
Olivia de Havilland | Hermia - In Love with Lysander / Hermia |
Jean Muir | Helena - In Love with Demetrius / Helena |
Grant Mitchell | Egeus - Father to Hermia / Egeus |
Frank McHugh | Quince - the Carpenter / Quince |
Dewey Robinson | Snug - the Joiner / Snug |
James Cagney | Bottom - the Weaver / Bottom |
Joe E. Brown | Flute - the Bellows-Mender / Flute |
Hugh Herbert | Snout - the Tinker / Snout |
Otis Harlan | Starveling - the Tailor / Starveling |
Arthur Treacher | Epilogue |
Victor Jory | Oberon - King of the Fairies / Oberon |
Anita Louise | Titania - Queen of the Fairies / Titania |
Nini Theilade | Fairie - Attending Titania / Fairie |
Mickey Rooney | Puck or Robin Goodfellow - a Fairy / Puck |
Kathy Frye | Pease-Blossom / Fairie |
Producers
Name | Role |
---|
Hal B. Wallis | Executive Producer |
Jack L. Warner | Executive Producer |
Henry Blanke | Producer |
Editors
Year | Type | Category | Won |
---|
1936 | Oscar | Best Picture | Nominated |
1936 | Oscar | Best Cinematography | Won |
1936 | Oscar | Best Film Editing | Won |
1936 | Oscar | Best Assistant Director | Nominated |