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King Lear
(1909) United States of America
B&W : One reel / 960 feet
Directed by [?] William V. Ranous and/or J. Stuart Blackton?
Cast: William V. Ranous [King Lear], Julia Swayne Gordon [Cordelia], Florence Turner [wicked sister], Florence Auer [wicked sister], Thomas H. Ince, Julia Arthur, Edith Storey, Maurice Costello
The Vitagraph Company of America production; distributed by The Vitagraph Company of America. / Scenario by Eugene Mullin, from the play King Lear by William Shakespeare. / © 17 March 1909 by The Vitagraph Company of America. Released 27 March 1909. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Survival status: Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive (paper print collection) [35mm paper positive, 16mm reduction preservation negative, 16mm reduction preservation positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Authors: William Shakespeare (1564?-1616)
Listing updated: 5 June 2012.
References: Ball-Shakespeare pp. 41, 51-52, 95, 138, 313, 387; Blum-Silent p. 14 : Website-IMDb.
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