Romeo and Juliet is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Theda Bara. The film shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey, where Fox many early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based there at the beginning of the 20th century. The film is now considered to be lost.
This film and other Shakespeare oriented pictures were released in 1916 the 300th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death. This ...
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Romeo and Juliet is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Theda Bara. The film shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey, where Fox many early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based there at the beginning of the 20th century. The film is now considered to be lost.
This film and other Shakespeare oriented pictures were released in 1916 the 300th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death. This film went up against direct competition from another feature length Romeo and Juliet film from Metro Pictures starring Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne. In a recorded interview, Bushman states that William Fox had spies working for Metro, hence for Bushman, and stole some of the intertitles from the Metro version. And that Fox rushed his version into the theatres in order to capitalize on exhibiting his film first. Bushman recalled going to see Fox's 'Romeo and Juliet' and was startled to see his intertitles flash on the screen.
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