A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935)

Director: William Dieterle, Max Reinhardt
Cast: Dick Powell, Grant Mitchell, Hobart Cavanaugh, Ian Hunter, Jean Muir, Olivia de Havilland, Ross Alexander, Verree Teasdale

Synopsis:

A film adaptation by Max Reinhardt of his popular stage productions of Shakespeare’s comedy. Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused…