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Films I've seen that were based on plays and musicals, with original author.
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- DirectorFranco ZeffirelliStarsElizabeth TaylorRichard BurtonCyril CusackBrutish, fortune-hunting scoundrel Petruchio tames his wealthy, shrewish wife, Katharina.William Shakespeare (est. 1593)
- DirectorFranco ZeffirelliStarsLeonard WhitingOlivia HusseyJohn McEneryWhen two young members of feuding families meet, forbidden love ensues.William Shakespeare (est. 1594)
- DirectorLaurence OlivierStarsLaurence OlivierJean SimmonsJohn LauriePrince Hamlet struggles over whether or not he should kill his uncle, whom he suspects has murdered his father, the former king.William Shakespeare (1600)
- DirectorRichard BurtonNevill CoghillStarsElizabeth TaylorRichard BurtonAndreas TeuberA man sells his soul to the devil in order to have the woman he loves.Christopher Marlowe (1604)
- DirectorDavid CunliffeStarsElizabeth BellPhilip BondKathleen ByronHedda Gabler (Dame Diana Rigg) is a beautiful woman married to the solid and respectable academic George Tesman (Denis Lill). Then an old flame, the dreamer Eilert Lovborg (Philip Bond), turns up on the scene with tragic results.Henrik Ibsen (1890)
- DirectorGabriel PascalStarsClaude RainsVivien LeighStewart GrangerAt the height of the Roman Civil War, a young Cleopatra (Vivien Leigh) meets a middle-aged Julius Caesar (Claude Rains), who teaches her how to rule Egypt.George Bernard Shaw (1898)
- DirectorAlfred L. WerkerStarsBasil RathboneNigel BruceIda LupinoThe master sleuth hunts his archenemy, Professor Moriarty, who is planning the crime of the century.William Gillette and Arthur Conan Doyle (1899)
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsElizabeth TaylorJane FondaCicely TysonA pair of peasant children, Mytyl (Patsy Kensit) and her brother Tyltyl (Todd Lookinland), are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness (Nedezhda Pavlova) by the Fairy Berylune. On their journey, they are accompanied by the humanized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire (Yevgeni Shcherbakov), Bread (Richard Pearson), and other entities.Maurice Maeterlinck (1908)
- DirectorClarence BrownStarsGreta GarboCharles BickfordGeorge F. MarionA young woman reunites with her estranged father and falls in love with a sailor, but struggles to tell them about her dark past.Eugene O'Neill (1920)
- DirectorCrane WilburStarsVincent PriceAgnes MooreheadGavin GordonA crazed killer known as "The Bat" is on the loose in a mansion full of people.Mary Roberts Rinehart with Avery Hopwood (1920)
- DirectorPhilip DudleyStarsMargaret LeightonRichard WarwickPatrick BarrYoung Nicky Lancaster must cope with the discovery that his socialite mother is a drug addict.Noël Coward (1924)
- DirectorDelbert MannStarsSophia LorenAnthony PerkinsBurl IvesDesperation and secret passions on a family farm lead to tragedy.Eugene O'Neill (1924)
- DirectorCedric MessinaStarsPenelope KeithPaul EddingtonPatricia HodgeIt is a warm Saturday afternoon in Cookham. The Bliss family is settling down to a quiet weekend. It is a weekend which turns out to be anything but quiet.Noël Coward (1925)
- DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsKathryn GraysonAva GardnerHoward KeelThe daughter of a riverboat captain falls in love with a charming gambler, but their fairy tale romance is threatened after his luck turns sour.music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, based on Edna Ferber's novel (1927)
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsJack LemmonWalter MatthauSusan SarandonA ruthless editor tries to get his top reporter to cover one more crime story before retirement.Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur (1928)
- DirectorRobert Z. LeonardStarsNorma ShearerClark GableAlexander KirklandAfter Nina Leeds finds out that insanity runs in her husband's family, she has a love child with a handsome doctor and lets her husband believes the child is his.Eugene O'Neill (1928)
- DirectorJohn GorrieStarsAlec McCowenPenelope KeithPolly AdamsAmanda and Elyot used to be tempestuously married to each other. Now, each has remarried - and they find themselves in adjoining suites at the same hotel.Noël Coward (1930)
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsMarie DresslerJohn BarrymoreWallace BeeryAffluent Millicent and Oliver Jordan throw a dinner for a handful of wealthy and/or well-born acquaintances, each of whom has much to reveal.George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber (1932)
- DirectorPhilip SavilleStarsRula LenskaClive ArrindellJohn SteinerA woman cannot decide between two men who love her, and the trio agree to try living together in a platonic friendly relationship.Noël Coward (1933)
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsMiriam HopkinsMerle OberonJoel McCreaTwo schoolteachers and the man they both love face ruin when a malicious student cooks up a lie.Lillian Hellman (1934)
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsAudrey HepburnShirley MacLaineJames GarnerA rebellious student at a girls' school accuses two teachers of lesbianism.Lillian Hellman (1934)
- DirectorArchie MayoStarsLeslie HowardHumphrey BogartBette DavisA waitress, a hobo and a bank robber get mixed up at a lonely diner in the desert.Robert E. Sherwood (1935)
- DirectorGregory La CavaStarsKatharine HepburnGinger RogersAdolphe MenjouA chronicle of the ambitions, dreams, and disappointments of aspiring actresses who all live in the same boarding house.George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber (1936)
(film bears little resemblance to the play) - DirectorFrank CapraStarsJean ArthurJames StewartLionel BarrymoreThe son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development.George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart (1936)
- DirectorIrving RapperStarsBette DavisJohn DallNigel BruceA schoolteacher becomes the mentor of a talented young miner and seeks to get him into a university.Emlyn Williams (1938)