This July, I will be teaching a new course in the Hutton House Lectures: which is being offered this Summer at LIU:C.W. Post. In Acting Shakespeare, I will discuss and screen five films. In each film, we will find that scenes from the plays of William Shakespeare, play a major role. In Lowell Sherman’s Morning Glory (1933), Katherine Hepburn (in the first of her four Academy Award Winning roles), is an aspiring Actress, who recites Hamlet’s “To Be Or Not To Be” at a party. In Ernst Lubitch’s To Be Or Not To Be (1942), Polish Actor Joseph Tura (Jack Benny) finds that Robert Stack always leaves upon hearing “To Be Or Not To Be”. Hamlet prevails again in John Ford’s My Darling Clementine (1946), in which a visiting theatrical troupe intends to perform Hamlet in DIdge City; In George Cukor’s A Double Life (1947), Ronald Colman is a stage actor whose mind becomes affected by the role of Othello; and in George Sidney’s 1953 adaptation of Cole Porter’s Kiss Me Kate, a formerly married couple star in a Broadway musical version of The Taming of The Shrew. Course is offered on five consecutive Fridays: July 12th, 19th, 26th, August 2nd, and 9th. All classes begin at 1PM. Fee for this five film series is $100. For more information, and to register, please call 516-299-2580