Film
The Taming of the Shrew
19501h
United States- Director
- Paul Nickell
- Year
- 1950
Italy, 16th century. Petruchio, a choleric, lying and poor rural landowner from Verona, arrives in Padua in search of fortune and a wife, while Baptista, a wealthy merchant, announces that he will not allow Bianca, his youngest daughter, to marry until the temperamental and unruly Katherina, his eldest daughter, does.
Top cast
Charlton Heston
Petruchio
Lisa Kirk
Katherina
Sally Chamberlin
Bianca
Henry Barnard
Lucentio
Carl Don
The Tailor
Louis Edmonds
Grumio
James Gannon
Hortensio
Douglas Gordon
Drunken Sod
Ernest Graves
Tranio
Elmer Lehr
Old Monk
Don Murray
Biondello
Arthur O'Connell
Curtis
Hiram Sherman
Baptista Minola
Florence Stanley
The Widow
Justice Watson
Gremio
Directed by
Paul Nickell
Produced by
Worthington Miner