THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (1929) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Sam Taylor
Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Edwin Maxwell,
Joseph Cawthorne, Clyde Cook, Dorothy Jordan
Slapstick Shakespeare, in an early talkie starring Doug and Mary as the famously bickering, would-be couple. Neither Fairbanks nor Pickford would last very long in the sound era, and when they made this, their storybook marriage was coming apart, too. It's the only movie they appeared in together, and while you'd expect it to be dialogue-driven (Shakespeare, with an assist from Sam Taylor), check out how much of Pickford's performance is done without words.
