(Originally published by the Daily News on Sept. 30, 1948. This story was written by Kate Cameron.) When Ben Jonson said of his fellow-playwright, William Shakespeare, that he “was not of an age, but ...

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FOLLOWING the fashion in movies and books, Sir Laurence Olivier has acted and directed a Hamlet with a simplified Freudian interpretation. The mad Ophelia makes caressing motions over a phallic ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - At the start of Laurence Olivier's 1948 British film adaptation of "Hamlet," the director and star offers a helpful voiceover: "This," Olivier intones, "is the tragedy of a man who ...

The question used to be: Can Shakespeare’s plays be made into successful movies? With his film production of Henry V (TIME, April 8, 1946), Sir Laurence Olivier settled that question once & for all.

Hamlet is in theaters on April 10. From Laurence Olivier to The Lion King; from Branagh to Bollywood and The Bad Sleep Well; few stones have been left un-turned when adapting Hamlet for the big screen ...