Romeo and Juliet (1916)
1h 20m
Running Time
October 19, 1916Release Date
Romeo and Juliet (1916)
1h 20m
Running Time
October 19, 1916Release Date
Plot.
Shakespeare's tragedy of two young people who fall desperately in love despite the ancient feud between their two families, and how the sins of the fathers bring disaster to their children.
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Cast & Crew.
Francis X. Bushman
Romeo / Director
Beverly Bayne
Juliet
Horace Vinton
Escalus, Prince of Verona
John Davidson
Paris
Eric Hudson
Montague
Edmund Elton
Capulet
Leonard Grover
Old Man
Fritz Leiber
Mercutio
Olaf Skavlan
Benvolio
Lawson Butt
Tybalt (as W. Lawson Butt)
Robert Cummings
Friar Lawrence
A.J. Herbert
Friar John (as Alexandre J. Herbert)
Edwin Boring
Balthasar
William Morris
Abraham
Joseph Dailey
Peter
Adella Barker
Juliet's nurse
Helen Dunbar
Lady Capulet
Genevieve Reynolds
Lady Montague
Rudolph J. Bergquist
Cinematographer
Ethel Mandell
Rosaline (as Ethel Mantell)
John W. Noble
Director / Scenario Writer
William Shakespeare
Theatre Play
John Arthur
Scenario Writer
Rudolph De Cordova
Scenario Writer
Media.
Details.
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Romeo and Juliet is a lost 1916 American silent film based on William Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet. John W. Noble is credited as director and Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne star as the lovers. This film was produced in 1916, the 300th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, and was released amongst many other commemorations of his works.
This film was produced and released in direct competition with another film, Romeo and Juliet produced by William Fox, starring Theda Bara, and released three days later. Bushman later claimed, in an interview, that he went to see the Theda Bara version and was shocked to see that Fox had added some intertitles from the Metro version.