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Macbeth (1948 film)

Index Macbeth (1948 film)

Macbeth is a 1948 American historical drama war film adaptation by Orson Welles of William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth, with Welles in the lead role. [1]

94 relations: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935 film), AFI Catalog of Feature Films, Agnes Moorehead, Alan Napier, Alexander Korda, Alfred Smith Barnes, American Film Institute, Anne Baxter, Banquo, Ben Hecht, Bride of Frankenstein, Censorship, Charles K. Feldman, Charles Scribner's Sons, Chicago Tribune, Christianity, Dan O'Herlihy, Double entendre, Drama (film and television), Druid, Edgar Barrier, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Erskine Sanford, Film finance, Fleance, Folger Shakespeare Library, Frank Brady (writer), Gus Schilling, Gustav Machatý, Hamlet (1948 film), HarperCollins, Henry V (1944 film), Herbert Yates, Historical fiction, Jacques Ibert, Jealousy (1945 film), Jean-Luc Godard, Jeanette Nolan, Jerry Farber, Keene Curtis, King Duncan, King Lear (1987 film), Lady Macbeth, Lady Macduff, Laurence Olivier, Lurene Tuttle, Macbeth, Macbeth (character), Macduff (Macbeth), Macduff's son, ..., Malcolm (Macbeth), Mercedes McCambridge, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Michael (archangel), Morgan Farley, Orson Welles, Othello, Peggy Webber, Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Greenaway, Prospero's Books, Republic Pictures, Richard Wilson (director), Roddy McDowall, Romeo and Juliet (1936 film), Rotten Tomatoes, Roy Rogers, Salt Lake City, Scottish English, Silent film, Simon & Schuster, Sleepwalking scene, Specter of the Rose, Statue of Liberty, Tallulah Bankhead, The March of Time (radio program), The Taming of the Shrew (1929 film), This is Orson Welles, Three Witches, TV Guide, UCLA Film and Television Archive, United Artists, Utah, Venice Film Festival, Vivien Leigh, Voodoo Macbeth, War film, Warner Bros., Western (genre), Western Costume, William Alland, William Shakespeare, Wuthering Heights (1939 film), Young Siward. Expand index (44 more) »

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935 film)

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a 1935 American romance fantasy film of William Shakespeare's play, directed by Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle, and starring James Cagney, Mickey Rooney, Olivia de Havilland, Jean Muir, Joe E. Brown, Dick Powell, Ross Alexander, Anita Louise, Victor Jory and Ian Hunter.

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AFI Catalog of Feature Films

The AFI Catalog of Feature Films, also known as the AFI Catalog is an ongoing project by the American Film Institute to catalog all commercially made and theatrically exhibited American motion pictures, from the earliest days of the industry to the present.

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Agnes Moorehead

Agnes Robertson Moorehead (December 6, 1900April 30, 1974) was an American actress whose six-decade career included work in radio, stage, film, and television.

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Alan Napier

Alan William Napier-Clavering (7 January 1903 – 8 August 1988), better known as Alan Napier, was an English actor.

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Alexander Korda

Sir Alexander Korda (born Sándor László Kellner, 16 September 1893 – 23 January 1956), BFI Screenonline.

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Alfred Smith Barnes

Alfred Smith Barnes (January 28, 1817, in New Haven, Connecticut – February 17, 1888, in Brooklyn, New York) was an American publisher and philanthropist.

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American Film Institute

The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States.

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Anne Baxter

Anne Baxter (May 7, 1923 – December 12, 1985) was an American actress, star of Hollywood films, Broadway productions, and television series.

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Banquo

Lord Banquo, the Thane of Lochaber, is a character in William Shakespeare's 1606 play Macbeth.

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Ben Hecht

Ben Hecht (February 28, 1894 – April 18, 1964) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist.

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Bride of Frankenstein

Bride of Frankenstein (advertised as The Bride of Frankenstein) is a 1935 American science-fiction horror film, the first sequel to Universal Pictures' 1931 hit Frankenstein.

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Censorship

Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient" as determined by government authorities.

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Charles K. Feldman

Charles K. Feldman (April 26, 1905 – May 25, 1968) was a Hollywood attorney, film producer and talent agent who founded the Famous Artists talent agency.

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Charles Scribner's Sons

Charles Scribner's Sons, or simply Scribner's or Scribner, is an American publisher based in New York City, known for publishing American authors including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Stephen King, Robert A. Heinlein, Thomas Wolfe, George Santayana, John Clellon Holmes, Don DeLillo, and Edith Wharton.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tronc, Inc., formerly Tribune Publishing.

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Christianity

ChristianityFrom Ancient Greek Χριστός Khristós (Latinized as Christus), translating Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, Māšîăḥ, meaning "the anointed one", with the Latin suffixes -ian and -itas.

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Dan O'Herlihy

Daniel Peter O'Herlihy (May 1, 1919 – February 17, 2005) was an Irish-born film actor, known for such roles as Brigadier General Warren A. "Blackie" Black in Fail Safe, Conal Cochran in Halloween III: Season of the Witch, "The Old Man" in RoboCop, and Andrew Packard in Twin Peaks.

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Double entendre

A double entendre is a figure of speech or a particular way of wording that is devised to be understood in two ways, having a double meaning.

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Drama (film and television)

In reference to film and television, drama is a genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone.

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Druid

A druid (derwydd; druí; draoidh) was a member of the high-ranking professional class in ancient Celtic cultures.

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Edgar Barrier

Edgar Barrier (March 4, 1907 – June 20, 1964) was an American actor who appeared on radio, stage, and screen.

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (often referred to as simply The Fringe) is the world's largest arts festival, which in 2017 spanned 25 days and featured 53,232 performances of 3,398 shows in 300 venues.

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Erskine Sanford

Erskine Sanford (November 19, 1885 – July 7, 1969) was an American actor on the stage and in radio and motion pictures.

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Film finance

Film finance is an aspect of film production that occurs during the development stage prior to pre-production, and is concerned with determining the potential value of a proposed film.

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Fleance

Fleance (or Fléance) is a figure in legendary Scottish history.

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Folger Shakespeare Library

The Folger Shakespeare Library is an independent research library on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., in the United States.

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Frank Brady (writer)

Frank Brady (born March 15, 1934, Brooklyn, New York), is an American writer, editor, biographer and educator.

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Gus Schilling

August "Gus" Schilling (June 20, 1908 — June 16, 1957) was an American film actor who started in burlesque comedy and usually played nervous comic roles, often unbilled.

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Gustav Machatý

Gustav Machatý (9 May 1901 – 13 December 1963) was a Czech film director, screenwriter and actor.

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Hamlet (1948 film)

Hamlet is a 1948 British film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same name, adapted and directed by and starring Sir Laurence Olivier.

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HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C. is one of the world's largest publishing companies and is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster.

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Henry V (1944 film)

Henry V is a 1944 British Technicolor film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same name.

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Herbert Yates

Herbert John Yates (August 24, 1880 – February 3, 1966) was the founder and president of Republic Pictures, who had John Wayne, Gene Autry, and Roy Rogers in their pictures.

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Historical fiction

Historical fiction is a literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past.

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Jacques Ibert

Jacques François Antoine Marie Ibert (15 August 18905 February 1962) was a French classical composer.

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Jealousy (1945 film)

Jealousy is a 1945 American film noir crime film directed by Gustav Machatý starring John Loder, Jane Randolph, Karen Morley and Nils Asther.

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Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard (born 3 December 1930) is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic.

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Jeanette Nolan

Jeanette Nolan (December 30, 1911 – June 5, 1998) was an American actress who was nominated for four Emmy Awards: in 1964, 1966, 1974 and 1978.

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Jerry Farber

Jerry Farber (born 1935) is an American educator and writer.

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Keene Curtis

Keene Holbrook Curtis (February 15, 1923 – October 13, 2002) was an American character actor.

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King Duncan

King Duncan is a fictional character in Shakespeare's Macbeth. He is the father of two youthful sons (Malcolm and Donalbain), and the victim of a well-plotted regicide in a power grab by his trusted captain Macbeth.

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King Lear (1987 film)

King Lear is a 1987 film directed by Jean-Luc Godard, an adaptation of William Shakespeare's play in the style of experimental French New Wave cinema.

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Lady Macbeth

Lady Macbeth is a leading character in William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth (c.1603–1607).

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Lady Macduff

Lady Macduff is a character in William Shakespeare's Macbeth.

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Laurence Olivier

Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, (22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century.

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Lurene Tuttle

Lurene Tuttle (August 29, 1907 – May 28, 1986) was an American character actress and acting coach, who made the transition from vaudeville to radio, and later films and television.

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Macbeth

Macbeth (full title The Tragedy of Macbeth) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare; it is thought to have been first performed in 1606.

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Macbeth (character)

Lord Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, is the title character and titular main protagonist turned primary antagonist of William Shakespeare's Macbeth (c. 1603–1607).

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Macduff (Macbeth)

Lord Macduff, the Thane of Fife, is a character in William Shakespeare's Macbeth (c.1603–1607).

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Macduff's son

Macduff's son is a character in William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth (1606).

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Malcolm (Macbeth)

Malcolm is a character in William Shakespeare's Macbeth (c. 1603–1607).

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Mercedes McCambridge

Carlotta Mercedes Agnes McCambridge (March 16, 1916 – March 2, 2004) was an American actress of radio, stage, film, and television.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (initialized as MGM or hyphenated as M-G-M, also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or simply Metro, and for a former interval known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, or MGM/UA) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs.

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Michael (archangel)

Michael (translit; translit; Michahel;ⲙⲓⲭⲁⲏⲗ, translit) is an archangel in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

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Morgan Farley

Francis Morgan Farley (October 3, 1898 – October 11, 1988) was an American actor on the stage and in films and television.

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Orson Welles

George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, writer, and producer who worked in theatre, radio, and film.

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Othello

Othello (The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603.

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Peggy Webber

Peggy Webber (born September 15, 1925) is a retired American actress who was active in film, television, and radio.

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Peter Bogdanovich

Peter Bogdanovich (Serbian: Петар Богдановић, Petar Bogdanović, born July 30, 1939) is an American director, writer, actor, producer, critic and film historian.

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Peter Greenaway

Peter Greenaway, CBE (born 5 April 1942 in Newport, Wales) is a British film director, screenwriter, and artist.

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Prospero's Books

Prospero's Books is a 1991 British avant-garde film adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Tempest, written and directed by Peter Greenaway.

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Republic Pictures

Republic Pictures Corporation was an American motion picture production-distribution corporation in operation from 1935 to 1967, that was based in Los Angeles, California.

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Richard Wilson (director)

Richard Wilson (December 25, 1915 – August 21, 1991) was an American director, actor, writer and producer closely associated with Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre.

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Roddy McDowall

Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall (17 September 1928 – 3 October 1998) was an English-American actor, voice artist, film director and photographer.

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Romeo and Juliet (1936 film)

Romeo and Juliet is a 1936 American film adapted from the play by Shakespeare, directed by George Cukor from a screenplay by Talbot Jennings.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Roy Rogers

Roy Rogers (born Leonard Franklin Slye, November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998) was an American singer and actor.

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Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City (often shortened to Salt Lake and abbreviated as SLC) is the capital and the most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Utah.

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Scottish English

Scottish English refers to the varieties of English spoken in Scotland.

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Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (and in particular, no spoken dialogue).

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster, Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster.

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Sleepwalking scene

The sleepwalking scene is a critically celebrated scene from William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth (1607?).

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Specter of the Rose

Specter of the Rose is a 1946 film noir thriller film written and directed by Ben Hecht and starring Judith Anderson, Ivan Kirov, Viola Essen, Michael Chekhov, and Lionel Stander, with choreography by Tamara Geva, and music by George Antheil.

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Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States.

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Tallulah Bankhead

Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (January 31, 1902 – December 12, 1968) was an American actress of the stage and screen.

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The March of Time (radio program)

The March of Time is an American radio news documentary and dramatization series sponsored by Time Inc. and broadcast from 1931 to 1945.

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The Taming of the Shrew (1929 film)

The Taming of the Shrew (1929) is an American pre-Code film.

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This is Orson Welles

This is Orson Welles is a 1992 book by Orson Welles (1915–1985) and Peter Bogdanovich that comprises conversations between the two filmmakers recorded over several years, beginning in 1969.

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Three Witches

The Three Witches or Weird Sisters or Wayward Sisters are characters in William Shakespeare's play Macbeth (c. 1603–1607).

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TV Guide

TV Guide is a bi-weekly American magazine that provides television program listings information as well as television-related news, celebrity interviews and gossip, film reviews, crossword puzzles, and, in some issues, horoscopes.

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UCLA Film and Television Archive

The UCLA Film & Television Archive is an internationally renowned visual arts organization focused on the preservation, study, and appreciation of film and television, based at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

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United Artists

United Artists (UA) is an American film and television entertainment studio.

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Utah

Utah is a state in the western United States.

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Venice Film Festival

The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival (Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is the oldest film festival in the world and one of the "Big Three" film festivals, alongside the Cannes Film Festival and Berlin International Film Festival.

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Vivien Leigh

Vivien Leigh (born Vivian Mary Hartley, and also known as Lady Olivier after 1947; 5 November 19138 July 1967) was an English stage and film actress.

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Voodoo Macbeth

The Voodoo Macbeth is a common nickname for the Federal Theatre Project's 1936 New York production of William Shakespeare's Macbeth.

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War film

War film is a film genre concerned with warfare, typically about naval, air, or land battles, with combat scenes central to the drama.

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Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of various arts which tell stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in the American Old West, often centering on the life of a nomadic cowboy or gunfighter armed with a revolver and a rifle who rides a horse.

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Western Costume

Western Costume is a costume warehouse in Hollywood, California which supplies costumes and costuming supplies to the film and TV industry.

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William Alland

William Alland (March 4, 1916 – November 11, 1997) was an American film producer and writer, mainly of western and science fiction/monster films, including This Island Earth, It Came From Outer Space, Tarantula, The Deadly Mantis, The Mole People, The Colossus of New York, The Space Children, The Creature from the Black Lagoon and its two sequels.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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Wuthering Heights (1939 film)

Wuthering Heights is a 1939 American drama romance film directed by William Wyler and produced by Samuel Goldwyn.

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Young Siward

Young Siward is a character in William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth (1606).

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