bianca married linda arvidson in taming of the shrew.
bianca married linda arvidson in taming of the shrew.
who does bianca marry in taming of the shrew?
linda arvidson
the taming of the shrew (1908 film)









































the taming of the shrew is a 1908 silent film directed by d. w. griffith. it was based on shakespeare's play of the same name.









































the blurb for the film stated "if we could see ourselves as others see us what models we would become."









































section::::cast (in credits order).









































bullet::::- florence lawrence ... katharina









































bullet::::- arthur v. johnson ... petruchio









































bullet::::- linda arvidson ... bianca









































bullet::::- harry solter ... katharina's father









































the rest of cast listed alphabetically:









































bullet::::- charles avery ... music teacher









































bullet::::- william j. butler









































bullet::::- gene gauntier ... wedding party
the taming of the shrew (1908 film)
the first sound adaptation of the play was in 1929; sam taylor's "the taming of the shrew", starring mary pickford and douglas fairbanks (the first sound adaptation of any shakespeare play). this version was simultaneously shot as a silent film, and, depending on whether a given theatre was equipped to screen sound films, was released both as a "talkie" and a silent. using only 500 lines from the original play, and a few lines from david garrick's 1754 adaptation of "shrew", "catharine and petruchio", the film is primarily known for how pickford delivers katherina's last speech. as she moves though the litany of reasons why a woman should obey her husband, she winks toward bianca (dorothy jordan), unseen by petruchio. bianca smiles in silent communication with katherina, thus acknowledging that katherina has not been tamed at all. the film opens with a punch and judy puppet show which several critics have argued performs a similar function to the christopher sly induction in the original play, but also works to instill a sense of false anticipation in the audience; the puppet show ends with judy sinking lovingly into punch's arms after he beats her. in the film, katherina never sinks into petruchio's arms. indeed, pickford's katherina is much more resistant than in many stage versions; there is an extended scene of her wrecking baptista's home, she only agrees to marry petruchio when he stands on her foot and her scream is taken by the priest as consent, when she falls in the mud on the way to petruchio's house, he offers to help but she refuses, she rejects meat at the dinner table rather than being tempted by it. most significantly, when petruchio outlines his plan to tame her "with kindness" (4.1.195), which is usually a soliloquy, katherina hears him. she then proceeds to 'out-tame' him; when he messes up the bed clothes, she overturns the entire mattress, sparking a game of one-upmanship which ends when she flings a stool at him and knocks him out. the conversation about the sun and moon, so often seen as a pivotal turning point in the taming is then delivered with a befuddled petruchio apparently genuinely unsure whether he is looking at the sun or the moon, and a worried katherina trying to placate him. this is immediately followed by her 'submission' speech, and her wink. elizabeth schafer believes this is a katherina that has not been tamed; "unlike shakespeare's katherina, pickford's katherina knows what petruchio is trying to do in taming her and she responds to this tactically and successfully. her surpassing of petruchio's outrageous behaviour leaves him nonplussed and concussed." however, pickford herself was unhappy with the film, and with how taylor had directed her. in her autobiography, she wrote she wanted to play katherina as a ferocious woman, but taylor told her "we don't want any of that heavy stage drama; we want the old pickford tricks." pickford said of her performance, "instead of being a forceful tiger-cat, i was a spitting little kitten."
the taming of the shrew on screen