The Taming of the Shrew (1929)
ALL TALKING, ALL LAUGHING COMEDY SENSATION!
63 min
Adapted from Shakespeare's play: Baptista Minola, a wealthy resident of Padua, is the father of Katherine and Bianca. The younger daughter, Bianca, is charming and has many suitors. But her father will not allow Bianca to be married until her older sister, who is notoriously quarrelsome and bad-tempered, is married first. When Petruchio comes from Verona to Padua in search of a wife, he hears of this situation, and he accepts the challenge of trying to woo and marry the ill-natured Katherine.
- Release date
- October 26, 1929
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Mary Pickford as Katherine
- Douglas Fairbanks as Petruchio
- Edwin Maxwell as Baptista
- Joseph Cawthorn as Gremio
- Clyde Cook as Grumio
- Geoffrey Wardwell as Hortensio
- Dorothy Jordan as Bianca
- Wilson Benge as Servant
- Frankie Genardi as Little Boy
- Billie Jeane Phelps as Little Girl
Crew
- Sam Taylor · Director
- William Shakespeare · Writer
- Sam Taylor · Writer
- Mary Pickford · Producer
- Karl Struss · Cinematographer
- Allen McNeil · Editor