Romeo & Juliet

Written By: William Shakespeare

Text: Read the entire play HERE

Directed By: Laurence Olivier

Scenery & Costumes: Motley

Lighting: Robert Edmond Jones

Photos: Laszlo Willinger

Cast: Vivien Leigh (Juliet); Laurence Olivier (Romeo); Dame May Whitty (Nurse); Edmond O’Brien (Mercutio); Cornel Wilde (Tybald); Alexander Knox (Friar Laurence); Wesley Addy (Benvolio); Halliwell Hobbes (Capulet); Katharine Warren (Lady Capulet); Ben Webster (Montague); Barbara Horder (Lady Montague); Frank Downing (Paris); Hazel Brown (Rosaline); Morton L. Stevens (Old Capulet & Friar John); Walter Brooke (Chief Officer); Jack Merivale (Balthasar); Robert Busch (Abraham); Joseph Tomes (Gregory); William Barrows (Sampson); Wilton Graff (Escalus).

Opened: San Francisco, CA; Chicago, IL; Washington D.C.; 51st Theatre, New York: May 9, 1940.

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