A Midsummer Night's Dream (1909)

1909 · Silent film · 11 min · dir. Charles Kent

• Comedy

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Synopsis

Theseus, the Duke of Athens, is engaged to be married to Hippolyta. One of the Duke's courtiers has a daughter, Hermia, who, for business reasons, he decides shall marry Demetrius: but she is in love with Lysander. Her father appeals to the Duke and he decrees that Hermia must obey her father or forever remain unmarried. The lovers decide to elope and they are followed by the rejected suitor, Demetrius, and Helena, who loves him in vain. On the night of the elopement a number of townspeople are…

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Details

Director

Charles Kent

Writer

Eugene Mullin

Studio

Vitagraph Company of America

Released

1909-12-25

Running time

11 minutes

Cast & crew

• Charles Kent Director
• Maurice Costello
• Dolores Costello
• Helene Costello
• WWalter Ackerman
• Charles Chapman
• Julia Swayne Gordon
• Gladys Hulette
• William Humphrey

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