 The "Othello" scenes were filmed separately and in the exact order  in which they occur in Shakespeares play, so as to give  Ronald Colman (qv) the feeling that he was actually appearing in  "Othello". Colman felt uneasy about performing Shakespeare, so  director George Cukor (qv) and Shakespearean actor  Walter Hampden (qv), who acted as coach and advisor for these  scenes, tried to make Colman as comfortable as possible in them.