Sandra Reinton in Shakespeare in Love (1998)

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The Bard gets the romantic comedy treatment in Shakespeare in Love (1998), which tells the story of Shakespeare struggling with his newest production, Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter. Enter Gwyneth Paltrow (and who wouldn't want to enter her?), as a woman with a passion for the stage who is bound to marry a noble bore. She goes in drag to auditions for the play and lands the lead and the playwright, who begins to edit his story to reflect their bourgeoning love affair. Gwyneth had already flashed her Paltrows in three earlier films, but her Romeo and Juliet never looked better than here. All the world's a stage and here that stage is a peepshow.