''Immortal Gentleman'' is a 1935 British

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directed by

Widgey R. Newman Widgey R. Newman (1900–1944) was a British screenwriter, film producer, producer and film director.Chibna;; p.20 He was a major force in the British B film industry of the 1930s, overseeing the production of a number of quota quickies, sometime ...

and starring

Basil Gill Basil Gill (10 March 1877 – 23 April 1955) was a British stage actor and film actor. His stage career included many roles in plays of Shakespeare. Life He was a son of the Rev. John Gill, of Cambridge.Obituary, ''The Glasgow Herald'', page 9, ...

Rosalinde Fuller Rosalinde Fuller (born Rosalind Ivy Fuller; 16 February 1892 – 15 September 1982) was a British actress. Early life Rosalind Ivy Fuller was the third of four daughters born to a Portsmouth draper, whose eldest child was a son, Walter Fuller ...

and

Dennis Hoey Dennis Hoey (born Samuel David Hyams, 30 March 1893 – 25 July 1960) was a British film and stage actor, best remembered for playing Inspector Lestrade in six films of Universal's Sherlock Holmes series. Early life Hoey was born Samuel ...

.Wood p.82 It was a low-budget

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, which usually did not have historical settings.

Synopsis

In the early seventeenth century

William Shakespeare William Shakespeare ( 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nation ...

Ben Jonson Benjamin Jonson ( 11 June 1572 – ) was an English playwright, poet and actor. Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence on English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours; he is best known for the satire, satirical ...

and

Michael Drayton Michael Drayton ( – ) was an English poet who came to prominence in the Elizabethan era, continuing to write through the reign of James I and into the reign of Charles I. Many of his works consisted of historical poetry. He was also the fir ...

meet in a

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tavern and begin discussing the other customers who remind them of characters from Shakespeare's plays.

Cast

as William Shakespeare / Malvolio *

as Ophelia / Juliet / Lady *

as Soldier / Toby Belch * Anne Bolt as Jane / Maria * Edgar Owen as Ben Jonson / Mercutio * Hubert Leslie as Michael Drayton *

Laidman Browne Laidman Browne (13 September 1896 – 11 September 1961) was an English stage, radio and television actor. Born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1896, he was a founder member of the Newcastle Repertory Company in 1925, playing leading parts there until ...

as Gambler / Petruchio / Feste *

Terence de Marney Terence Arthur De Marney (1 March 190825 May 1971) was a British film, stage, radio and television actor, as well as theatre director and writer. Career Actor The son of Violet Eileen Concanen and Arthur De Marney, and the grandson of no ...

as Harry Morton / Hamlet / Romeo *

Derrick De Marney Derrick Raoul Edouard Alfred De Marney (21 September 1906 – 18 February 1978) was an English stage and film actor and producer, of French and Irish ancestry. Actor The son of Violet Eileen Concanen and Arthur De Marney, and the grandson of ...

as James Carter / Tybalt *

Fred Rains Frederick William Rains (28 January 1860 – 3 December 1945) was a British actor and film director. His father, also called Alfred Rains, was a coachbuilder. On 27 October 1884, at St Michael's Church, Lambeth, he married Emily Eliza Cox. T ...

as Miser *

Dennis Wyndham Dennis Wyndham (15 January 1887 – 19 August 1973) was a South African born stage and film actor. Long based in Britain, he appeared in more than 40 films between 1920 and 1956. He was born in Natal, South Africa. On 23 May 1917, he married El ...

as Voyager *

Ivan Berlyn Ivan Berlyn (1867 – 11 December 1934) was an English actor of stage and silent film whose career spanned four decades. An experienced and versatile actor, Beryln played "... weird and eccentric character parts" in everything from pantomime ...

as Father / Aguecheek *

Leo Genn Leopold John Genn ( ; 9 August 1905 – 26 January 1978) was an English actor and barrister. Distinguished by his relaxed charm and smooth, "black velvet" voice, he had a lengthy career in theatre, film, television and radio, often playing a ...

as Merchant / Shylock * Roy Byford as Squire * Noel Birkin * Peggy Bolton * Bertram Dench

References

Bibliography

* Low, Rachael. ''Filmmaking in 1930s Britain''. George Allen & Unwin, 1985. * Wood, Linda. ''British Films, 1927-1939''. British Film Institute, 1986.

External links

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