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This Award is given each month to the film receiving the highest number of votes by the members of the National Screen Council, whose selection is governed by outstanding merit and suitability of the film to whole-family entertainment. Members of the Council include over 200 motion picture editors of leading newspapers throughout the country, motion picture reviewing committee of the International Federation of Catholic Alumnae, and state motion picture chairmen of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs.
"Romeo and Juliet" Wins April Blue Ribbon Award
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's lavish screen dramatization of the immortal love story, "Romeo and Juliet," has been voted by National Screen Council members as the April recipient of the BOXOFFICE Blue Ribbon Award.
Norma Shearer and Leslie Howard have the stellar roles in this Shakespearean classic, the tragic love story of which is familiar to everyone.
The action is woven around four adventurous days in the lives of Romeo and Juliet, from the time of their meeting, to the banishment of Romeo and the final reunion in the tomb of the two lovers. Highlights of the film include the .famous balcony scene, the ballroom and tomb scenes, and the massive square of Verona.
Cast of Characters
Juliet
Norma Shearer
Romeo
Leslie Howard
Mercutio
John Barrymore
Nurse
....Edna May Oliver
Tybalt
Basil Rathbone
Lord Capulet....
....C. Aubrey Smith
Peter
Paris
Ralph Forbes
Benvolio Reginald Denny
Balthasar Maurice Murphy
Prince of Verona.. ..Conway Tearle Friar Laurence ....Henry Kolker Lord Montague.... Robert Warwick
Lady Montague
Virginia Hammond
Lady Capulet
Violet Kemble Cooper
Production Staff
Director George Cukor
Author William Shakespeare
Screen Adaptation
Talbot Jennings
Musical Score
Herbert Stothart
Art Director Cedric Gibbons
Settings by Cedric Gibbons and
Oliver Messel
Associate Fredric Hope
Costumes by
Oliver Messel and Adrian
Dance Director Agnes deMille
Artistic Consultant.. Oliver Messel
Literary Consultant
Prof. William Strunk Jr.
of Cornell University
Photographed by
William Daniels, A.S.C.
Film Editor Margaret Booth
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