Romeo and Juliet (1908 film)

Romeo and Juliet
Tybalt and Mercutio duel
Directed by	J. Stuart Blackton
Based on	Romeo and Juliet 1597 play by William Shakespeare
Produced by	J. Stuart Blackton
Starring	Paul Panzer Florence Lawrence
Distributed by	Vitagraph Studios
Release date	June 6, 1908 (United States)
Running time	15 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent film

The first American film version of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet was a silent film short made in 1908 made by Vitagraph Studios.^[1] Directed by J. Stuart Blackton, it was filmed at Bethesda Terrace in Manhattan, New York.

The film starred Paul Panzer as Romeo and Florence Lawrence as Juliet.

It is now considered lost.

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Plot summary

Cast

Paul Panzer - Romeo
Florence Lawrence - Juliet
John G. Adolfi - Tybalt
Josephine Atkinson - Bit
Louise Carver - Nurse
Charles Chapman - Montague
Gladys Hulette
Charles Kent - Capulet
William V. Ranous - Friar Lawrence
William Shea - Peter
Harry Solter
Florence Turner

References

^ Buchanan, Judith (2009). Shakespeare on Silent Film: An Excellent Dumb Discourse. Cambridge University Press. p. 108.

External links

Romeo and Juliet at IMDb

v t e Films directed by J. Stuart Blackton
Feature films	The Life of Moses (1909) The Battle Cry of Peace (1915) Whom the Gods Destroy (1916) The Judgment House (1917) Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation (1917) Life's Greatest Problem (1918) The World for Sale (1918) The Common Cause (1919) My Husband's Other Wife (1920) Passers By (1920) The House of the Tolling Bell (1920) Respectable by Proxy (1920) Man and His Woman (1920) The Blood Barrier (1920) The Forbidden Valley (1920) The Glorious Adventure (1922) A Gipsy Cavalier (1922) The Virgin Queen (1923) On the Banks of the Wabash (1923) Between Friends (1924) Let Not Man Put Asunder (1924) The Beloved Brute (1924) The Clean Heart (1924) Behold This Woman (1924) The Happy Warrior (1925) The Redeeming Sin (1925) Tides of Passion (1925) Bride of the Storm (1926) Hell-Bent for Heaven (1926) The Gilded Highway (1926) The Passionate Quest (1926) The American (1927)
Short films	The Humpty Dumpty Circus (1898) The Enchanted Drawing (1900) Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransom (1905) Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906) The Automobile Thieves (1906) The Haunted Hotel (1907) A Curious Dream (1907) Macbeth (1908) Romeo and Juliet (1908) Antony and Cleopatra (1908) Oliver Twist (1909) Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy (1909) Les Misérables (1909) A Midsummer Night's Dream (1909)
Related	Vitagraph Studios Paula Blackton (wife) Marian Constance Blackton (daughter)

William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Characters

Sources

Ballets

Romeo and Juliet (1938, Prokofiev)
Romeo and Juliet (1962, Cranko)
Romeo and Juliet (1965, MacMillan)
Romeo and Juliet (1977, Nureyev)
Romeo and Juliet (1965, Lavery)
Radio and Juliet (2005)
Romeo + Juliet (2007, Martins)
Romeo and Juliet (2008, Pastor)

Operas

Romeo und Julie (1776, Benda)
Giulietta e Romeo (1796, Zingarelli)
Giulietta e Romeo (1825, Vaccai)
I Capuleti e i Montecchi (1830, Bellini)
Gloria (1874, Cilea)
Roméo et Juliette (1867, Gounod)
A Village Romeo and Juliet (1907, Delius)
Romeo und Julia (1940, Sutermeister)
Romeo und Julia (1943, Blacher)

Musicals

The Belle of Mayfair (1906)
West Side Story (1957)
Once on This Island (1990)
Roméo et Juliette, de la Haine à l'Amour (2001)
Giulietta e Romeo (2007)
& Juliet (2019)

Classical

Beethoven's String Quartet No. 1 (c. 1800)
Roméo et Juliette (1839, Berlioz)
Romeo and Juliet (1870, Tchaikovsky)

On screen

Films	1900 1908 1916 Metro 1916 Fox 1936 1940 1953 1954 1955 1964 1967 (TV) 1968 1978 (TV) 1992 (TV) 1996 2006 2013
TV series	Ronny & Julia (2000) Skin (2003) Romeo × Juliet (2007) Romeo y Julieta (2007) Harina de otro costal (2010) Star-Crossed (2014) Romil & Jugal (2017) Still Star-Crossed (2017)