The Taming of the Shrew

  • Comedy
10/26/1929
63
NR

ALL TALKING, ALL LAUGHING COMEDY SENSATION!

Adapted from Shakespeare's play: Baptista Minola, a wealthy resident of Padua, is the father of Katherine and Bianca. The younger daughter, Bianca, is charming and has many suitors. But her father will not allow Bianca to be married until her older sister, who is notoriously quarrelsome and bad-tempered, is married first. When Petruchio comes from Verona to Padua in search of a wife, he hears of this situation, and he accepts the challenge of trying to woo and marry the ill-natured Katherine.

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      • Geronimo1967

        Boy but theres some fun chemistry on offer here as the original cinema golden couple take on one of Shakespeares best romantic comedy plays and use their new found voices to make it count. Mary Pickford is the shrew, Douglas Fairbanks her suitor Petruchio. Now make no mistake, this isnt a love match, its more a sort of trade off so Hortensio (Geoffrey Wardwell) can fulfil his entirely reciprocated affections for Bianca (Dorothy Jordan). She cant marry til her elder sister is, and - well thats where Petruchio comes in. Its fair to say that Katherine isnt remotely interested in her would-be beau, her fathers wishes nor her sisters happiness - but that seems to simply energise her newly emerging gadfly so with, as was the status a woman back t...

        February 20, 2025

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