As You Like It (1912 film)

As You Like It
Directed by	Charles Kent J. Stuart Blackton James Young
Based on	play As You Like It by William Shakespeare
Produced by	Vitagraph Company of America Kenean Buel Charles Kent J. Stuart Blackton
Starring	Maurice Costello Rose Coghlan
Distributed by	General Film Company
Release date	October 7, 1912
Running time	3 reels
Country	USA
Language	Silent..English titles

As You Like It is a 1912 silent short film based on the play As You Like It, by William Shakespeare. It was directed by J. Stuart Blackton, Charles Kent, and James Young, and was produced by the Vitagraph Company. The film brings stage star Rose Coghlan to the screen for her motion picture debut alongside costar Maurice Costello. At 61 or 62 Coghlan is an older Rosalind than usual.

Filmed mainly outdoors.

Cast

• Maurice Costello as Orlando
• Rose Coghlan as Rosalind
• Rosemary Theby as Celia
• Rose Tapley as Phoebe, a Shepherdess
• Kate Price as Audrey
• Harry T. Morey as Duke Frederick
• Tefft Johnson as Exiled Duke
• Charles Kent as Jacques
• Frank Currier as Undetermined Role
• George Ober as Adam
• George Randolph as Charles the Wrestler (as George C. Randolph)
• Robert Gaillard as Oliver
• James Young as Sir Rowland De Bois
• William Shea as Undetermined Role
• James Morrison as Silvius Shepherd
• Frank Mason as Amiens
• Hughie Mack as William (Billed as Hugh McGowan)
• Leo Delaney as Jacques De Bois
• Robert McWade, Sr. as Touchstone, a Jester *(McWade (1835-1913) was the father of better known Robert McWade b.1872)
• Charles Eldridge as Corin, a Shepherd

Preservation status

• A print of this film survives in 16mm format.

External links

• As You Like It at IMDb.com