Shakespeare's tragic Renaissance lovers fall in love despite their feuding families.
Shakespeare's tragic Renaissance lovers fall in love despite their feuding families.
"Your job is to protect Shakespeare from us," producer Irving Thalberg told a scholar hired to consult on Romeo and Juliet. Thalberg's respect for the Bard infuses this "best of the pre-Olivier Shakespeare films"(David Shipman, The Story of Cinema) chosen as one of 1936's 10...