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William Dieterle and Max Reinhardt directed the 1935 film A Midsummer Night's Dream. Max Reinhardt arrived in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Austria before directing his 1934 stage production at the Hollywood Bowl.
Mickey Rooney played Puck while Olivia de Havilland appeared as Hermia in this live version. James Cagney received high acclaim for playing Bottom despite being too dynamic for the role and Joe E. Brown was also a contract player at Warner Bros who never performed Shakespeare before or after this project.
The film opened worldwide on the 9th of October 1935 in London New York Sydney and Vienna. It established a new record with 2,971 cancellations by cinemas exercising their right to pull out within a specified period.
The Ministry of Propaganda banned the movie in Nazi Germany due to Max Reinhardt's Jewish ancestry. Joseph Goebbels also banned all works by Felix Mendelssohn and Erich Wolfgang Korngold as degenerate music.
The production used 700,000 yards of cellophane to create the illusion of fairyland on screen. Hal Mohr decided to spray trees with orange paint to give them an eerie glow for the visual effect.
Hal Mohr won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography thanks to a grass-roots write-in campaign. The Academy later declared it would no longer accept write-in votes after this specific incident.