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A Midsummer Night's Dream on Video - 1935

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Love is blind, fickle and true. And under the sway of capricious fairies it becomes blinder ( a queen romances as donkey), more fickle (best friends swoon over each other's beau) and truest of all (lovers repledge their devotion). "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" in Shakespeare's bewitching comedy!

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Starring:
Ian Hunter as Theseus, Duke of Athens

Verree Teasdale as Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, betrothed to Theseus

Hobart Cavanaugh as Philostrate, Master of Revels to Theseus

Dick Powell as Lysander, In love with Hermia

Ross Alexander as Demetrius, In love with Hermia

Olivia de Havilland as Hermia, In love with Lysander (as Olivia de Haviland)

Jean Muir as Helena, In love with Demetrius

Grant Mitchell as Egeus, Father to Hermia

Frank McHugh as Quince, the Carpenter

Dewey Robinson as Snug, the Joiner

James Cagney as Bottom, the Weaver

Joe E. Brown as Flute, the Bellows-mender

Hugh Herbert as Snout, the Tinker

Otis Harlan as Starveling, the Tailor

Arthur Treacher as Epilogue

Victor Jory as Oberon, King of the Fairies

Anita Louise as Titania, Queen of the Fairies

Nini Theilade as Fairie, Attending Titania (as Nina Theilade)

Mickey Rooney as Puck or Robin Goodfellow, a Fairy

Katherine Frey as Pease-Blossom

Helen Westcott as Cobweb

Fred Sale as Moth

Billy Barty as Mustard-Seed

Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

Filmed: 1935 - Released: 1935

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