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The Taming of the Shrew

192963 minUnited States
Comedy
Video edition
YouTube · Channel’s colorized edition
Original language
English
This copy runs
65:04
Subtitles
English

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Synopsis

A determined suitor meets a woman equally unwilling to yield. Courtship becomes a contest of language, performance and control within a household arranging marriages. Shakespeare's comedy asks its players to negotiate a union through an aggressively theatrical battle of wills.

Cast

DirectorsSam Taylor

Behind the scenes

Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks starred together in the play's first sound-film adaptation. Pickford already had one talkie behind her; the production records two major silent stars adapting their partnership to spoken performance.

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