A Midsummer Night's Dream
March 6, 1998 (Friday) at 7:30 p.m.
(Free and Open to the Public)
Directed by William Dieterle and Max Reinhardt
Starring James Cagney, Joe E. Brown, Mickey Rooney
This film version of Shakespeare's comedy features some inspired casting with James Cagney as Bottom and Joe E. Brown as Flute. Like most of Shakespear's comedies, the story contains several seemingly unrelated plot lines, all tied together by a single unifying event, in this instance, the impending wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta. A visual tour de force, the film earned cinematographer Hal Mohr the first write-in Academy Award in Hollywood history.
