JMBarrie
JMBarrie => JMBarrie => Topic started by: Hannah High on November 23, 2006, 03:37:40 PM
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Not such a great question, but I've been wondering (and it's been quiet here, cept for all the rubbish)...what stories of Barrie's (apart from Peter Pan) have been adapted onto screen? In the opinions of others here, are there any worth seeing?
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There are several, Hannah. Sticking to movies (not TV productions) and listing them in chronological order of Barrie's original written creations:
The Little Minister (1913) Directed by James Young and starring Clara Kimball Young, James Young and Mrs E M Kimball
The Little Minister (1914) Directed by Percy Nash and starring Joan Ritz, Gregory Scott and Henry Vibart
The Little Minister (1921) Directed by Penrhyn Stanlaws and starring Betty Compson, George Hackathorne and Nigel Evans
The Little Minister (1922) Directed by David Smith and starring Alice Calhoun, James Morrison and Henry Hebert
The Little Minister (1934) Directed by Richard Wallace and starring Katherine Hepburn, John Beal and Alan Hale
Sentimental Tommy (1915) Directed by Toby Cooper (actors not known)
Sentimental Tommy (1921) Directed by John S Robertson and starring Malcolm Bradley, Harry Coleman and Kate Davenport
Quality Street (1927) Directed by Sidney Franklin and starring Marion Davies, Conrad Nagel and Helen Jerome Eddy
Quality Street (1937) Directed by George Stevens and starring Katherine Hepburn, Franchot Tone and Eric Blore
What Every Woman Knows (1917) Directed by Fred W Durrant and starring Jilda Trevelyan, A B Imeson and Maud Yates
What Every Woman Knows (1921) Directed by William C de Mille and starring Lois Wilson, Conrad Nagel and Charles Ogle
What Every Woman Knows (1934) Directed by Gregory La Cava and starring Helen Hayes, Brian Aherne and Madge Evans
The Admirable Chrichton (1918) Directed by G B Samuelson and starring Basil Gill, Mary Dibley and James Lindsay
The Admirable Chrichton (1957) Directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Kenneth More, Diane Cilento and Cecil Parker
A Kiss for Cinderella (1934) Directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Betty Bronson, Esther Ralston and Henry Vibart
A few of these are available on DVD.
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Many thanks, Robert!
I'll have to look into those...