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Show Classic comedy playing now at Academy The city of Padua no longer looks as it did in the 16th Century Cen-tury when it was the setting for "The Taming of the Shrew." That "ancient" Padua had to be reconstructed, some 12 miles south of Rome, for the filming of the Burton-Zeffirelli production of the bawdy comedy com-edy classic, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Panavision and Technicolor. The boisterous Columbia Pic-turese Pic-turese release is now at the Academy Theatre. Preparation for filming the romantic comedy, with its clash between the fiery Katharina and the lusty Petruchio spilling over into the streets and even the roofs of the town, were begun six months before the cameras began turning. To make their robust romance, ro-mance, the Burtons and Zeffir-elli Zeffir-elli used the facilities of the largest and most modern motion mo-tion picture studio complex in Europe, the De Laurentiis Studios, Stu-dios, of Rome. Four oversized sound stages and adjoining lots were transformed into colorful Padua, where the shrewish Katharina is boisterously wooed woo-ed and won by a poverty-stricken poverty-stricken gentlman from Verona, Ver-ona, the handsome, wily Petruchio. |
