Comedic short featuring Shakespeare's notable characters; many performing musical numbers. An assistant director is told to read all Shakespeare’s works in order to mine them for potential film plots. Falling asleep on the job, he dreams of various Shakespearean characters coming to life from the pages of giant books and singing and dancing in celebration of their "goin’ Hollywood." The characters appearing include Romeo, Juliet, Juliet’s Nurse, Puck, Peter Quince, Hamlet, Old Hamlet’s Ghost, Falstaff, Antony, Cleopatra, and Macbeth. Shakespeare appears toward the end of the film to object, but he is quickly convinced by his characters to join a big song and dance routine. Includes passing references to a number of familiar Shakespearean scenes including Hamlet’s "to be or not to be" soliloquy, Romeo and Juliet’s balcony scene, Hamlet with Yorick’s skull, and Enobarbus’ speech on Cleopatra’s barge.
Credits
Shake, Mr. Shakespeare Cast
Shake, Mr. Shakespeare Crew
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Department |
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Davíd Mendoza as Music. He was 48 (now 39) years old
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Sound |
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Roy Mack as Director. He was 47 (71) years old when He died
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Directing |
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Cyrus Wood as Story. He was 43 (49) years old when He died
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Writing |
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Bert Frank as Editor. |
Editing |
