Multimedia Collection
A Midsummer Night's Dream
VHS
143 minutes
PN1997 .M5181 2000
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!" in Shakespeare's bewitching comedy.
And what top talents play these mortals and immortals - James Cagney, screen-debuting Olivia de Havilland, Dick Powell, Joe E. Brown and Mickey Rooney among them - in this double Academy Award® winner (for Film Editing and Cinematography, the latter making Oscar® history as the only time a non-nominee became a write-in winner). Theatrical legend Max Reinhardt joins studio collaborators to turn his famed Hollywood Bowl production into an exquisite cinematic reverie, with Erich Wolfgang Korngold adapting the glorious Felix Mendelssohn score. What a rapturous treasure for all who "have but slumbered here while these visions did appear."
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