
The Taming of the Shrew
ALL TALKING, ALL LAUGHING COMEDY SENSATION!
Adapted from Shakespeare's play: Baptista Minola, a wealthy resident of Padua, is the father of Katherine and Bianca. The younger daughter, Bianca, is charming and has many suitors. But her father will not allow Bianca to be married until her older sister, who is notoriously quarrelsome and bad-tempered, is married first. When Petruchio comes from Verona to Padua in search of a wife, he hears of this situation, and he accepts the challenge of trying to woo and marry the ill-natured Katherine.
- 5.4
- 1929
- Released
- 1h 3m

Mary Pickford
Caterina
Douglas Fairbanks
Petruccio
Edwin Maxwell
Battista
Joseph Cawthorn
Gremio
Clyde Cook
Grumio
Dorothy Jordan
Bianca
Geoffrey Wardwell
Hortensio
Wilson Benge
Servant (uncredited)
Frankie Genardi
Little Boy (uncredited)
Billie Jeane Phelps
Little Girl (uncredited)
Charles Stevens
Servant (uncredited)Released
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Boy but there’s some fun chemistry on offer here as the original cinema golden couple take on one of Shakespeare’s best romantic comedy plays and use their new found voices to make it count. Mary Pickford is the shrew, Douglas Fairbanks her suitor “Petruchio”. Now make no mistake, this isn’t a love match, it’s more a sort of trade off so “Hortensio” (Geoffrey Wardwell) can fulfil his entirely reci