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The Taming of the Shrew
The Taming of the Shrew
Directed by	D. W. Griffith
Written by	D. W. Griffith; Harry Solter
Based on	Play by William Shakespeare
Produced by	American Mutoscope and Biograph Company,; New York City
Cinematography	G. W. Bitzer; Arthur Marvin
Release date	November 10, 1908;
Running time	17 minutes (@16 frame/s); original release length 1048 feet
Country	United States
Languages	Silent film; English intertitles

The Taming of the Shrew is a 1908 silent film directed by D. W. Griffith and produced by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company of New York City. The 17-minute short, which is based on the play of the same name by English playwright William Shakespeare, was filmed in just two days–October 1 and 7, 1908–at Biograph's studio in Manhattan and on location in nearby Coytesville, a borough of Fort Lee, New Jersey.^[1]

Play film; runtime 00:17:47.

The blurb for the film stated, "if we could see ourselves as others see us what models we would become."^[2]

Cast (in credits order) edit

The rest of cast listed alphabetically:

^ ^a ^b Graham, Cooper C.; Steve Higgins, Elaine Mancini, and João Luiz Viera. "Taming of the Shrew", D. W. Griffith and the Biograph Company. Metuchen, New Jersey and London: The Scarecrow Press, 1985, p. 28. Internet Archive, San Francisco, California. Retrieved March 18, 2021.
^ Quoted in Robert Hamilton Ball, Shakespeare on Silent Film: A Strange Eventful History (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1968), 63