Olivia de Havilland at 19 in one of her earliest film roles as Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935, dir. William Dieterle & Max Reinhardt )

The Fairies, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935, dir. William Dieterle & Max Reinhardt) Additional stills here.

The Fairies, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935, dir. William Dieterle & Max Reinhardt)

The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve;

lovers to bed;

‘tis almost fairy time.

The Fairies,  A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935, dir. William Dieterle & Max Reinhardt)

James Cagney as Bottom and Anita Louise as Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935, dir. William Dieterle & Max Reinhardt )

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William V. Ranous as Bottom and Florence Turner as Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1909, dir. Charles Kent, J. Stuart Blackton)

What visions have I seen! Methought I was enamour’d of an ass.

James Cagney as Bottom and Anita Louise as Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935, dir. William Dieterle & Max Reinhardt )

And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.

James Cagney as Bottom and Anita Louise as Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935, dir. William Dieterle & Max Reinhardt ) (via)