Romeo and Juliet (1916 Fox film)

1916 film

Romeo and Juliet

Film poster

Directed by| J. Gordon Edwards
Written by| Adrian Johnson
Based on| Romeo and Juliet
1597 play
by William Shakespeare
Produced by| William Fox
Starring| Theda Bara
Harry Hilliard
Cinematography| Phil Rosen
Edited by| Alfred DeGaetano
Distributed by| Fox Film Corporation

Release date

* October 22, 1916 (1916-10-22)

Running time

| 70 minutes
Country| United States
Languages| Silent
English intertitles
Bara (center, seated) in a scene from the film

Romeo and Juliet is a 1916 American silent romantic drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Theda Bara. The film was based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and was produced by the Fox Film Corporation.[1] The film was shot at the Fox Studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey,[2] and is now considered to be lost.[1][3]

## Competing versions of Shakespeare

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This film and other Shakespeare-oriented pictures were released in 1916, the 300th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death. This film went up against direct competition from another feature-length Romeo and Juliet film from Metro Pictures starring Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne.

In a recorded interview, Bushman states that William Fox had spies working for Metro, and stole some of the intertitles from the Metro version. Fox rushed his version into the theatres in order to capitalize on exhibiting his film first. Bushman recalled going to see Fox's Romeo and Juliet and was startled to see the intertitles from his film flash on the screen.

## Plot summary

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## Cast

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* Theda Bara as Juliet
* Harry Hilliard as Romeo
* Glen White as Mercutio
* Walter Law as Friar Laurence
* John Webb Dillion as Tybalt
* Einar Linden as Paris
* Elwin Eaton as Montague
* Alice Gale as Nurse
* Helen Tracy as Lady Capulet
* Victory Bateman as Lady Montague
* Jane Lee
* Katherine Lee
* May De Lacy
* Edward Holt as Capulet

## See also

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* Romeo and Juliet on screen
* List of lost films
* 1937 Fox vault fire

## References

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1. ^ a b "Romeo and Juliet". silentera.com. Retrieved March 6, 2013.
2. ^ Fort Lee: Birthplace of the Motion Picture Industry. Arcadia Publishing. 2006. p. 64\. ISBN 0-738-54501-5.
3. ^ Romeo and Juliet (1916 Fox) at TheGreatStars.com; Lost Films Wanted (Wayback Machine)

## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Romeo and Juliet (1916 film).

* Romeo and Juliet at IMDb
* Romeo and Juliet at the TCM Movie Database
* Romeo and Juliet at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
* color lobby poster(archived)

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William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Characters|

* Romeo
* Juliet
* Mercutio
* Tybalt
* Benvolio
* Friar Laurence
* Nurse
* Paris
* Rosaline
* Queen Mab

Sources|

* The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet
* Pyramus and Thisbe
* Palace of Pleasure
* Troilus and Criseyde
* Ephesiaca

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

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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)
* A Infância de Romeu e Julieta (2023)

Plays|

* Romanoff and Juliet (1956)
* People's Romeo (2010)
* Romeo and Juliet (2013)

Songs|

* "Montagues and Capulets" (1935)
* "Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet" (1968)
* "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" (1976)
* "Angelo" (1978)
* "Romeo and Juliet" (1978)
* "Romeo and Juliet" (1981)
* "Cherish" (1989)
* "Amor Prohibido" (1994)
* "Kissing You" (1996)
* "Starcrossed" (2004)
* "Peut-être toi" (2006)
* "Mademoiselle Juliette" (2007)
* "Love Story" (2008)
* "Love Me Again" (2013)

Albums|

* Romeo and Juliet (1968)
* Romeo + Juliet (1996)
* Romeo & Julia (2006)
* Tragic Lovers (2008)
* Star-Crossed (2021)
* Rosaline (2022)

Literature|

* Les Chouans (1829)
* The Wandering Jew (1844)
* The Stolen Dormouse (1941)
* The Faraway Lurs (1963)
* The Destruction of Faena (1989)
* Ronny & Julia (1995)
* Romiette and Julio (2001)
* New Moon (2006)
* Warm Bodies (2010)

Art|

* Romeo and Juliet: the Tomb Scene (1790)
* Juliet and her Nurse (1836)
* Romeo and Juliet (1978)

Phrases|

* A plague o' both your houses!
* A rose by any other name would smell as sweet
* Star-crossed

Story within
a story|

* Nicholas Nickleby
* 1912 film
* 1947 film
* 1980 play
* 2001 film
* 2002 film
* The Picture of Dorian Gray
* 1910 film
* 1913 film
* 1915 film
* 1916 film
* 1917 German film
* 1917 Hungarian film
* 1945 film
* 1976 TV special
* 2009 film
* Harlequinade
* W Juliet
* "Nothing Broken but My Heart"
* Panic Button
* Bare: A Pop Opera
* Bolji život
* The Sky Is Everywhere
* Pay as You Exit
* The White Mercedes
* She Died a Lady
* "Moonshine River"
* Rendez-vous
* Fame
* "I Am Unicorn"
* The Frog Prince
* Molly
* Smart Girls Get What They Want
* Tumbleweeds
* "The Thief of Baghead"
* The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke
* Prince Charming
* Km. 0
* Phileine Says Sorry
* Hamateur Night
* "Say You'll Be Mine"
* Into the Gauntlet
* Wandering Son
* K-On!

Other|

* Such Tweet Sorrow
* Romeo and Juliet effect
* Romeo and Juliet laws
* After Juliet
* "Upper West Side Story" (2012)
* Millennium Dome Show
* Inge Sylten and Heinz Drosihn
* Boys Don't Cry
* My Wedding and Other Secrets
* Donkey in Lahore
* Upside Down
* Letters to Juliet
* Sherlock Gnomes
* Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo

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J. Gordon Edwards

Director|

* St. Elmo (1914)
* Life's Shop Window (1914)
* Anna Karenina (1915)
* A Woman's Resurrection (1915)
* Should a Mother Tell? (1915)
* The Song of Hate (1915)
* The Blindness of Devotion (1915)
* The Galley Slave (1915)
* The Unfaithful Wife (1915)
* The Green-Eyed Monster (1916)
* A Wife's Sacrifice (1916)
* The Spider and the Fly (1916)
* Under Two Flags (1916)
* Her Double Life (1916)
* Romeo and Juliet (1916)
* The Vixen (1916)
* The Darling of Paris (1917)
* The Tiger Woman (1917)
* Her Greatest Love (1917)
* Tangled Lives (1917)
* Heart and Soul (1917)
* Camille (1917)
* The Rose of Blood (1917)
* Madame Du Barry (1917)
* The Forbidden Path (1918)
* The Soul of Buddha (1918)
* Under the Yoke (1918)
* Cleopatra (1917)
* When a Woman Sins (1918)
* The She-Devil (1918)
* The Light (1919)
* Salomé (1919)
* When Men Desire (1919)
* The Siren's Song (1919)
* A Woman There Was (1919)
* The Lone Star Ranger (1919)
* Wolves of the Night (1919)
* The Last of the Duanes (1919)
* Wings of the Morning (1919)
* Heart Strings (1920)
* The Adventurer (1920)
* The Orphan (1920)
* The Joyous Troublemaker (1920)
* If I Were King (1920)
* Drag Harlan (1920)
* The Scuttlers (1920)
* His Greatest Sacrifice (1921)
* The Queen of Sheba (1921)
* Nero (1922)
* The Silent Command (1923)
* The Shepherd King (1923)
* The Net (1923)
* It Is the Law (1924)

Screenwriter|

* The Blindness of Devotion (1915)
* A Wife's Sacrifice (1916)
* The She-Devil (1918)
* The Queen of Sheba (1921)

Producer|

* A Daughter of the Gods (1916)

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* Filmography
* Blake Edwards

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