In Max Reinhardt's first and only film production of Shakespeare's immortal comedy, strange and magical things happen in Athens. Olivia de Havilland stars in her premiere role as Hermia.
While on a fishing vacation in Ruritania, Englishman Rudolf Rassendyll (Ronald Colman) comes across a distant relative, the King-to-be Rudolf V (also Colman) who ends up drugged by his power hungry half brother (Raymond Massey). Rudolf finds himself roped in by the King-to-be's right hand men in stopping the conspiracy while falling in love with the King-to-be's intended.
An Iowa farmer and his family head to the Iowa state fair where there is temptation, success and failures.
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More faithful to the original Bernard Shaw play than "My Fair Lady," a phonetics professor makes a bet to make a flower girl (Wendy Hiller) into a lady in 6 months.
Sir Robin of Locksley rallies his men against The Sheriff of Nottingham and the scheming Prince John, who plots to take his brother's crown.
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