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SHAKESPEARE FILM FESTIVAL FEATURES
ZEFFIRELLI CLASSICS
Franco Zeffirelli's "Romeo and Juliet" will lead off the
Shakespeare Film Festival to be held at the University of San
Diego on March 11, 12 and 14 at 8:00 p.m., Salomon Lecture
Hall, DeSales Hall. The 1968 film to be shown March 11
stars Olivia Hussey, Leonard Whiting, Milo O'Shea and Michael York.
Admission is free. For information, contact the USO
Associated Students Cultural Arts, 260-4714.
On March 12, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" starring Diana
Rigg, David Warner, and Helen Mirren will be shown. Directed
by Peter Hall in 1968, "Midsummer Night's Dream" was filmed in
the forests near Stratford-on-Avon, England.
Franco Zeffirelli's "The Taming of the Shrew" (1967) will
be shown on March 14 and stars Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton,
Cyril Cusack, and Michael York.
Zeffirelli received an honorary degree, Doctor of Humane Letters,
from the University of San Diego in 1978.
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