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"Wuthering Heights""Wuthering Heights""Hamlet""Hamlet""Macbeth""Frankenstein""Nosferatu""Dracula""Dracula" and "The Scarlet Letter""The Great Gatsby""The Great Gatsby""Anna Karenina""Gone With the Wind""To Kill a Mockingbird""Pride and Prejudice" and "Bridget Jones' Diary"

Before Branagh, there was Welles. Orson Welles, whose career began in the theater, directed and starred in three adaptations of Shakespeare's plays. He was an imposing Macbeth in 1948.

"Macbeth"

Before Branagh, there was Welles. Orson Welles, whose career began in the theater, directed and starred in three adaptations of Shakespeare's plays. He was an imposing Macbeth in 1948.

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