Kiss Me Kate (1953)





An ex-husband and wife team star in a musical version of 'The Taming of the Shrew'; off-stage, the production is troublesome with ex-lovers' quarrels and two gangsters looking for some money owed to them.


Film programs

Illustrierte Film Bühne nr. 2413

Books with substantial mentioning of Kiss Me Kate

Don Tyler
The Great Movie Musicals
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2010

Douglas Brode
Shakespeare in the Movies, From the Silent Era to Shakespeare in Love
Oxford, 2000

Books with an entry on Kiss Me Kate

Alan G. Fetrow
Feature Films, 1950 - 1959, a United States Filmography
Jefferson, NC, 1999

Articles on Kiss Me Kate

William Paul, Breaking the Fourth Wall, 'Belascoism', Modernism, and a 3-D Kiss Me Kate, in: Film History, vol. 16, 2004 pp. 229-242



Year: 1953
Country: United States
Language: English
French
Italian
 
IMDb: 0045963