Metro announces William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Folger bibliographic ID: 333514
Folger call number: ART Vol. f273
Folger holdings ID: 485126
Accession Number: 268240

General notes

Souvenir booklet for a screening of John W. Noble and Francis X. Bushman's 1916 production of Romeo and Juliet, starring Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne. Film of this adaptation no longer exists. Bushman & Noble's version was in direct competition with an adaptation produced by William Fox and starring Theda Bara, released the same week "A $250,000 Stupendous Masterpiece accredited by critics to be one of the photoplay wonders of the world." "STRAND, One Day Only, April 14, Prices Matinee and Evenning: 15c and 25c." Metro's Romeo and Juliet was released in October 1916, suggesting that this screening is for the following April (1917)

Extended title: Metro announces William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet / produced by Quality Pictures Corporation with Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne ; directed by John W. Noble and Francis X. Bushman ; assisted by Edward Elsner and Rudolph de Cordova
Alternate titles: Romeo and Juliet

Bushman, Francis X., 1883-1966 Bayne, Beverly, 1895-1982 Romeo and Juliet (Motion picture : 1916 (Metro))

depiction: Bushman, Francis X., 1883-1966
depiction: Bayne, Beverly, 1895-1982
film director: Noble, John W., 1880-
film distributor: Metro Pictures Corporation
production company: Quality Pictures Corporation