A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

143 mins | Comedy, Romance, Fantasy | Oct. 9, 1935

A film adaptation by Max Reinhardt of his popular stage productions of Shakespeare's comedy. Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...

A Midsummer Night's Dream

143 mins | Comedy, Romance, Fantasy | Oct. 9, 1935

A Midsummer Night's Dream
A film adaptation by Max Reinhardt of his popular stage productions of Shakespeare's comedy. Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...
IMDb rating 6.8
Producers Warner Bros. Pictures
Original title A Midsummer Night's Dream
Directors Russell Saunders, Sherry Shourds, Max Reinhardt, William Dieterle
Writers Mary C. McCall, Jr., Charles Kenyon, William Shakespeare

Cast

Ian Hunter

as Theseus

Verree Teasdale

as Hippolyta

Hobart Cavanaugh

as Philostrate

Dick Powell

as Lysander

Ross Alexander

as Demetrius

Jean Muir

as Helena

Grant Mitchell

as Egeus

Frank McHugh

as Quince

Dewey Robinson

as Snug

James Cagney

as Bottom

Joe E. Brown

as Flute

Hugh Herbert

as Snout, the Tinker

Otis Harlan

as Starveling

Arthur Treacher

as Epilogue

Mickey Rooney

as Puck

Billy Barty

as Mustard-Seed

Victor Jory

as Oberon

Anita Louise

as Titania

Helen Westcott

as Cobweb

Nini Theilade

as Fairie

Katherine Frey

as Pease-Blossom

Fred Sale Jr.

as Moth