List of plays adapted into feature films

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This is a list of plays that have been adapted into feature films followed by a list of feature films based on stage plays.

Shakespeare plays[edit]

The Guinness Book of Records lists 410 feature-length film and TV versions of William Shakespeare's plays as having been produced, which makes him the most filmed author ever in any language.[1]

The Internet Movie Database lists Shakespeare as having writing credit on 1,171 films, with 21 films in active production, but not yet released, as of June 2016. The earliest known production is King John from 1899.[2]

Other plays[edit]

This is a list of plays other than those written by William Shakespeare (covered by the above section) that have been adapted into feature films. The title of the play is followed by its first public performance, its playwright, the title of the film adapted from the play, the year of the film and the film's director. If a film has an alternate title based on geographical distribution, the title listed will be that of the widest distribution area.

Play Playwright Film Film director
8 femmes (1958) Robert Thomas 8 Women (2002) François Ozon
The 24th Day Tony Piccirillo The 24th Day (2004) Tony Piccirillo
27 Wagons Full of Cotton (1946), and The Longest Stay Cut Short or The Unsatisfactory Supper (1946)[3] Tennessee Williams Baby Doll (1956) Elia Kazan[4]
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1938) Robert E. Sherwood Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940) John Cromwell
Abie's Irish Rose (1922) Anne Nichols Abie's Irish Rose (1928) Victor Fleming
Abie's Irish Rose (1946) A. Edward Sutherland
Accent on Youth (1934) Samson Raphaelson Accent on Youth (1935) Wesley Ruggles
Mr. Music (1950) Richard Haydn
But Not for Me (1959) Walter Lang
The Admirable Crichton (1902) J. M. Barrie The Admirable Crichton (1918) G. B. Samuelson
The Admirable Crichton (1957) Lewis Gilbert
After Love (1924) Henri Duvernois
Pierre Wolff
After Love (1924) Maurice Champreux
When Love Is Over (1931) Léonce Perret
After Love (1959) Maurice Tourneur
Agnes of God (1979) John Pielmeier Agnes of God (1985) Norman Jewison
Ah, Wilderness! (1933) Eugene O'Neill Ah, Wilderness (1935) Clarence Brown
Summer Holiday (1948) Rouben Mamoulian
Alfie (1963) Bill Naughton Alfie (1966)[5] Lewis Gilbert
Alfie (2004)[5] Charles Shyer
Amadeus (1979) Peter Shaffer Amadeus (1984) Miloš Forman
American Buffalo (1975) David Mamet American Buffalo (1996) Michael Corrente
Anastasia (1952) Marcelle Maurette Anastasia (1956)[6] Anatole Litvak
Anastasia (1997) Don Bluth
Gary Goldman
Anna Christie (1921) Eugene O'Neill Anna Christie (1923) John Griffith Wray
Anna Christie (1930) Clarence Brown
Anna Christie (1930) Jacques Feyder
Another Country (1981) Julian Mitchell Another Country (1984) Marek Kanievska
Arsenic and Old Lace (1941) Joseph Kesselring Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) Frank Capra
As Is (1985) William M. Hoffman As Is (1986) Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Assunta Spina (1909) Salvatore di Giacomo Assunta Spina (1915) Gustavo Serena
Bad Girl Viña Delmar Bad Girl (1931) Frank Borzage
Bar Girls (1994) Lauran Hoffman Bar Girls (1994)[7] Marita Giovanni
Barefoot in the Park (1963) Neil Simon Barefoot in the Park (1967) Gene Saks
The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1930) Rudolf Besier The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) Sidney Franklin
The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957) Sidney Franklin
Barstool Words Josh Ben Friedman Killing Zelda Sparks (2006) Jeff Glickman
Bashir Lazhar Évelyne de la Chenelière Monsieur Lazhar (2011)[8] Philippe Falardeau
Beautiful Thing (1993) Jonathan Harvey Beautiful Thing (1995) Hettie MacDonald
Becket or The Honor of God (1959) Jean Anouilh Becket (1964) Peter Glenville
Becky Sharp Langdon Mitchell Becky Sharp (1935) Rouben Mamoulian
The Big Knife Clifford Odets The Big Knife (1955) Robert Aldrich
L'Oiseau Bleu (The Blue Bird) Maurice Maeterlinck The Blue Bird (1910)
The Blue Bird (1918) Maurice Tourneur
The Blue Bird (1940) Walter Lang
The Blue Bird (1970) Vasily Livanov
The Blue Bird (1976) George Cukor
Biloxi Blues (1984) Neil Simon Biloxi Blues (1988) Mike Nichols
Blithe Spirit Noël Coward Blithe Spirit (1945) David Lean
Blithe Spirit (2020) Edward Hall
Blue Denim James Leo Herlihy (1958) Blue Denim (1959)[9] Philip Dunne
Born Yesterday Garson Kanin Born Yesterday (1950) George Cukor
Born Yesterday (1993) Luis Mandoki
The Boys in the Band Mart Crowley The Boys in the Band (1970) William Friedkin
The Boys in the Band (2020) Joe Mantello
Breaker Morant: A Play in Two Acts Kenneth G. Ross Breaker Morant (1980) Bruce Beresford
Brighton Beach Memoirs (1982) Neil Simon Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986)[10] Gene Saks
A Bronx Tale (1988) Chazz Palminteri A Bronx Tale (1993) Robert De Niro
The Browning Version (1948) Terence Rattigan The Browning Version (1951) Anthony Asquith
The Browning Version (1955)
The Browning Version (1985) Michael A. Simpson
The Browning Version (1994) Mike Figgis
Bug (1996) Tracy Letts Bug (2007) William Friedkin
Bus Stop (1955) and People in the Wind William Inge Bus Stop (1956) Joshua Logan
Butterflies Are Free (1969) Leonard Gershe Butterflies Are Free (1972) Milton Katselas
California Suite (1976) Neil Simon California Suite (1978) Herbert Moss
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) Richard Brooks
Chalked Out (1937) Lewis E. Lawes You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939) Lewis Seiler
Chapter Two (1977) Neil Simon Chapter Two (1979) Robert Moore
Cher Antoine ou l'Amour raté (1969) Jean Anouilh You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (2012) Alain Resnais
Chicago (1926) Maurine Dallas Watkins Chicago (1927) Cecil B. DeMille
Roxie Hart (1942) William A. Wellman
Chicago (2002) Rob Marshall
Children of a Lesser God (1979) Mark Medoff Children of a Lesser God (1986) Randa Haines
The Church Mouse (1928) Ladislas Fodor The Church Mouse (1934) Monty Banks
Closer (1997) Patrick Marber Closer (2004) Mike Nichols
Come Blow Your Horn (1961) Neil Simon Come Blow Your Horn (1963) Bud Yorkin
The Connection (1959) Jack Gelber The Connection (1961) Shirley Clarke
Connie Goes Home (1923) Edward Childs Carpenter The Major and the Minor (1942) Billy Wilder
You're Never Too Young (1955) Norman Taurog
Coquette (1927) George Abbott
Ann Preston Bridgers
Coquette (1929) Sam Taylor
Crimes of the Heart (1978) Beth Henley Crimes of the Heart (1986) Bruce Beresford
The Crucible (1953) Arthur Miller Les Sorcières de Salem (1957) Raymond Rouleau
The Crucible (1996) Nicholas Hytner
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1957) William Inge The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960) Delbert Mann
Death of a Salesman (1949) Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman (1951) László Benedek
Death of Yazdgerd (1979) Bahram Beyzai Death of Yazdgerd (1982) Bahram Beyzai
Haute Surveillance (1947) Jean Genet Deathwatch (1965) Vic Morrow
Desk Set (1955) William Marchant Desk Set (1957) Walter Lang
A Doll's House (1879) Henrik Ibsen A Doll's House (1918) Maurice Tourneur
A Doll's House (1922) Charles Bryant
A Doll's House (1943) Ernesto Arancibia
A Doll's House (1959) George Schaefer
A Doll's House (1973) Joseph Losey
A Doll's House (1973)[11] Patrick Garland
Don't Drink the Water (1966) Woody Allen Don't Drink the Water (1969) Howard Morris
Don't Drink the Water (1994) Woody Allen
Doubt: A Parable (2004) John Patrick Shanley Doubt (2008) John Patrick Shanley
Dracula (1924) Hamilton Deane
John L. Balderston
Dracula (1931) Tod Browning
Dracula (1979) John Badham
Driving Miss Daisy (1987) Alfred Uhry Driving Miss Daisy (1989) Bruce Beresford
The Doughgirls (1942) Joseph Fields The Doughgirls (1944) James V. Kern
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1965) Paul Zindel The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1971) Paul Newman
Egor Bulychev (1932) Maxim Gorky Yegor Bulychov and Others (1953) Yuliya Solntseva
Yegor Bulychyov and Others (1971) Sergei Solovyov
The Emperor Jones (1920) Eugene O'Neill The Emperor Jones (1933) Dudley Murphy
Equus (1973) Peter Shaffer Equus (1977)[12] Sidney Lumet
Eurydice (1941) Jean Anouilh You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (2012) Alain Resnais
Experience (1914) George V. Hobart Experience (1921) George Fitzmaurice
Fanny (1931) Marcel Pagnol Fanny (1932) Marc Allégret
Fanny (1933) Mario Almirante
The Black Whale (1934) Fritz Wendhausen
Port of Seven Seas (1938) James Whale
Fanny (1961) Joshua Logan
Fanny (2013) Daniel Auteuil
Fences (1985) August Wilson Fences (2016) Denzel Washington
A Few Good Men (1989) Aaron Sorkin A Few Good Men (1992) Rob Reiner
For Love or Money (1947) F. Hugh Herbert This Happy Feeling (1959) Blake Edwards
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (1987) Terrence McNally Frankie and Johnny (1991) Garry Marshall
The Front Page (1928) Ben Hecht
Charles MacArthur
The Front Page (1931) Lewis Milestone
His Girl Friday (1940) Howard Hawks
The Front Page (1974) Billy Wilder
Switching Channels (1988) Ted Kotcheff
Gas Light (1938) Patrick Hamilton Gaslight (1940) Thorold Dickinson
Gaslight (1944) George Cukor
Geschäft mit Amerika Paul Franck and Ludwig Hirschfeld A Bit of Love (1932) Max Neufeld
Monsieur, Madame and Bibi (1932) Jean Boyer and Max Neufeld
Two Happy Hearts (1932) Baldassarre Negroni
Yes, Mr Brown (1933) Herbert Wilcox
Glengarry Glen Ross (1984) David Mamet Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) James Foley
God of Carnage (2008) Yasmina Reza Carnage (2011)[13] Roman Polanski
The Golden Legend of Schults (1939) James Bridie There Was a Crooked Man (1960) Stuart Burge
Goodbye Again George Haight
Allan Scott
Goodbye Again (1933) Michael Curtiz
Goodbye Charlie (1959) George Axelrod Goodbye Charlie (1964) Vincente Minnelli
The Grass is Greener (1956) Hugh Williams
Margaret Williams
The Grass Is Greener (1960) Stanley Donen
The Great Magoo (1932) Ben Hecht
Gene Fowler
Shoot the Works (1934) Wesley Ruggles
The Great White Hope (1967) Howard Sackler The Great White Hope (1970) Martin Ritt
The Greeks Had a Word for It (1930) Zoe Akins The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932) Lowell Sherman
How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) Jean Negulesco
Green Grow the Lilacs (1930) Lynn Riggs Oklahoma (1955) Fred Zinnemann
Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1970) Kurt Vonnegut Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1971) Mark Robson
Harvey (1944) Mary Chase Harvey (1950) Henry Koster
Heath Cobblers (1864) Aleksis Kivi The Village Shoemakers (1923) Erkki Karu
Nummisuutarit (1938) Wilho Ilmari
Nummisuutarit (1957) Valentin Vaala
The History Boys (2004) Alan Bennett The History Boys (2006) Nicholas Hytner
A Hole in the Head (1957) Arnold Schulman A Hole in the Head (1959) Frank Capra
Holiday (1928) Philip Barry Holiday (1930) Edward H. Griffith
Holiday (1938) George Cukor
I Am a Camera (1951) John Van Druten I Am a Camera (1955) Henry Cornelius
Cabaret (1972) Bob Fosse
I'm Not Rappaport (1984) Herb Gardner I'm Not Rappaport (1996) Herb Gardner
The Iceman Cometh (1946) Eugene O'Neill The Iceman Cometh (1973) John Frankenheimer
An Ideal Husband (1895) Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband (1935) Herbert Selpin
An Ideal Husband (1947) Alexander Korda
An Ideal Husband (1999) Oliver Parker
An Ideal Husband (2000) William P Cartlidge
Idioglossia Mark Handley Nell (1994)[14] Michael Apted
Illatszertár (1937) Miklós László The Shop Around the Corner (1940) Ernst Lubitsch
In the Good Old Summertime (1949) Robert Z. Leonard
You've Got Mail (1998) Nora Ephron
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest (1932) Franz Wenzler
Al Compás de tu Mentira (1950) Héctor Canziani
The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) Anthony Asquith
The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) Oliver Parker
Incendies (2003) Wajdi Mouawad Incendies (2010)[15] Denis Villeneuve
Inherit the Wind (1955) Jerome Lawrence
Robert E. Lee
Inherit the Wind (1960) Stanley Kramer
It's Only the End of the World (1990) Jean-Luc Lagarce It's Only the End of the World (2016)[16] Xavier Dolan
The Jazz Singer (1925) Samson Raphaelson The Jazz Singer (1927)[17] Alan Crosland
The Jazz Singer (1952) Michael Curtiz
The Jazz Singer (1980) Richard Fleischer
Kind Sir (1953) Norman Krasna Indiscreet (1958) Stanley Donen
Kiss and Tell (1943) F. Hugh Herbert Kiss and Tell (1945) Richard Wallace
The Lady of the Camellias Alexandre Dumas, fils Kameliadamen (1907) Viggo Larsen
Camille (1909) Ugo Falena
La Dame aux Camélias (1912) André Calmettes
Louis Mercanton
Henri Pouctal
La Signora delle Camelie (1915) Baldassarre Negroni
Camille (1915) Albert Capellani
Camille (1917) J. Gordon Edwards
Camille (1921) Ray C. Smallwood
Damen med kameliorna (1925) Olof Molander
Camille (1926) Fred Niblo
La Dame aux Camélias (1934) Fernand Rivers
Abel Gance
Camille (1936) George Cukor
La Dame aux Camélias (1953) Raymond Bernard
La Mujer de las camelias (1953) Ernesto Arancibia
La Dame aux Camélias (1981) Mauro Bolognini
Camille (1984) Desmond Davis
Life During Wartime Keith Reddin The Alarmist (1997) Evan Dunsky
Liliom (1909) Ferenc Molnár Carousel (1956) Henry King
The Lion in Winter (1966) James Goldman The Lion in Winter (1968) Anthony Harvey
The Lion in Winter (2003) A. Konchalovsky
Loco (1947) Dale Eunson
Katherine Albert
How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) Jean Negulesco
Long Day's Journey into Night (1956) Eugene O'Neill Long Day's Journey into Night (1962) Sidney Lumet
Long Day's Journey into Night (1996) David Wellington
Look Back in Anger (1956) John Osborne Look Back in Anger (1959) Tony Richardson
Lost in Yonkers (1990) Neil Simon Lost in Yonkers (1993) Martha Coolidge
Love! Valour! Compassion! (1994) Terrence McNally Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997) Joe Mantello
Luv (1964) Murray Schisgal Luv (1967) Clive Donner
Lysistrata (411 BC) Aristophanes The Second Greatest Sex (1955) George Marshall
Şalvar Davası (1983) Kartal Tibet
The Source (2011) Radu Mihăileanu
Chi-Raq (2015) Spike Lee
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1982) August Wilson Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020) George C. Wolfe
The Madness of George III (1991) Alan Bennett The Madness of King George (1994) Nicholas Hytner
Major Barbara (1905) George Bernard Shaw Major Barbara (1941) Gabriel Pascal
A Majority of One (1959) Leonard Spigelgass A Majority of One (1961) Mervyn LeRoy
The Marriage-Go-Round (1958) Leslie Stevens The Marriage-Go-Round (1960) Walter Lang
Marius (1929) Marcel Pagnol Marius (1931) Alexander Korda
Marius (2013) Daniel Auteuil
The Matchmaker (1954) Thornton Wilder The Matchmaker (1958) Joseph Anthony
Hello, Dolly! (1969) Gene Kelly
Merry Andrew (1929) Lewis Beach Handy Andy (1934) David Butler
Young as You Feel (1940) Malcolm St. Clair
The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963) Tennessee Williams Boom! (1968)[18] Joseph Losey
The Miss Firecracker Contest (1979) Beth Henley Miss Firecracker (1989) Thomas Schlamme
The Moon Is Blue (1951) F. Hugh Herbert The Moon Is Blue (1953) Otto Preminger
Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach (1953) Otto Preminger
Mouthpiece (2015) Norah Sadava and Amy Nostbakken Mouthpiece (2018) Patricia Rozema
Mourning Becomes Electra (1931) Eugene O'Neill Mourning Becomes Electra (1947) Dudley Nichols
Mrs. Black Is Back (1904) George V. Hobart Mrs. Black Is Back (1914) Thomas N. Heffron
My Lady Friends (1919) Frank Mandel
Emil Nyitray
My Lady Friends (1921) Lloyd Ingraham
'night, Mother (1982) Marsha Norman 'night, Mother (1986) Tom Moore
The Odd Couple (1965) Neil Simon The Odd Couple (1968) Gene Saks
Ofoti (1970) John Wheatcroft The Boy Who Loved Trolls (1984) Harvey Laidman
Once More, with Feeling (1958) Harry Kurnitz Once More, with Feeling! (1960) Stanley Donen
One Way Pendulum (1959) N. F. Simpson One Way Pendulum (1965) Peter Yates
The Only Game in Town (1968) Frank D. Gilroy The Only Game in Town (1970) George Stevens
Orphans (1983) Lyle Kessler Orphans (1987) Alan J. Pakula
Out of the Frying Pan (1941) Francis Swann Young and Willing (1943) Edward H. Griffith
Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (1904) J. M. Barrie Peter Pan (1924) Herbert Brenon
Peter Pan (1953) Clyde Geronimi
Wilfred Jackson
Hamilton Luske
Peter Pan (2003) P. J. Hogan
The Petrified Forest (1935) Robert E. Sherwood The Petrified Forest (1936) Archie Mayo
Picnic (1953) William Inge Picnic (1955) Joshua Logan
Plaza Suite (1968) Neil Simon Plaza Suite (1971) Arthur Hiller
Polly of the Circus (1907) Margaret Mayo Polly of the Circus (1917) Charles T. Horan
Edwin L. Hollywood
Polly of the Circus (1932) Alfred Santell
Pour avoir Adrienne Louis Verneuil The Cheeky Devil (1932) Carl Boese
Heinz Hille
You Will Be My Wife (1932) Carl Boese
Heinz Hille
Serge de Poligny
Prelude to a Kiss (1988) Craig Lucas Prelude to a Kiss (1992) Norman René
The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1971) Neil Simon The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975) Melvin Frank
Private Lives (1930) Noël Coward Private Lives (1931) Sidney Franklin
Pygmalion (1913) George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion (1938) Anthony Asquith
Leslie Howard
My Fair Lady (1964) George Cukor
Quartet (1999) Ronald Harwood Quartet (2012) Dustin Hoffman
The Queen Was in the Parlour (1926) Noël Coward The Queen Was in the Parlour (1927) Graham Cutts
Tonight Is Ours (1933) Stuart Walker
Rabbit Hole (2006) David Lindsay-Abaire Rabbit Hole (2010) John Cameron Mitchell
A Raisin in the Sun (1959) Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun (1961) Daniel Petrie
Real Women Have Curves (1990) Josefina López Real Women Have Curves (2002) Patricia Cardoso
Rita Coventry (1923) Hubert Osborne Don't Call It Love (1923) William C. deMille
Reigen (1897) Arthur Schnitzler The Merry-Go-Round (1920) Richard Oswald
La Ronde (1950) Max Ophüls
Circle of Love (1964) Roger Vadim
The Ritz (1975) Terrence McNally The Ritz (1976) Richard Lester
Rope (1929) Patrick Hamilton Rope (1948) Alfred Hitchcock
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966) Tom Stoppard Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) Tom Stoppard
The Seven Year Itch (1952) George Axelrod The Seven Year Itch (1955) Billy Wilder
Seventh Heaven (1922) Austin Strong Seventh Heaven (1927)[19] Frank Borzage
Seventh Heaven (1937)[19] Henry King
Sexual Perversity in Chicago (1974) David Mamet About Last Night... (1986)[20] Edward Zwick
About Last Night (2014)[20] Steve Pink
Shirley Valentine (1986) Willy Russell Shirley Valentine (1989) Lewis Gilbert
Shore Leave (1922) Hubert Osborne Shore Leave (1925) John S. Robertson
Follow the Fleet (1936) Mark Sandrich
Six Degrees of Separation (1990) John Guare Six Degrees of Separation (1993) Fred Schepisi
Sleuth (1970) Anthony Shaffer Sleuth (1972) Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Sleuth (2007) Kenneth Branagh
Tamanna (2014) Steven Moore
So This Is London (1922) Arthur Goodrich So This Is London (1930) John G. Blystone
So This Is London (1939) Thornton Freeland
Sonny (1920) George V. Hobart and Raymond Hubbell Sonny (1922) Henry King
A Sound of Hunting (1945) Harry Brown Eight Iron Men (1952) Edward Dmytryk
Still Life (1936) Noël Coward Brief Encounter (1945) David Lean
Stop That Man (1918) George V. Hobart Stop That Man! (1928) Nat Ross
Strange Interlude (1928) Eugene O'Neill Strange Interlude (1932) Robert Z. Leonard
A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Elia Kazan
The Subject Was Roses (1964) Frank D. Gilroy The Subject Was Roses (1968) Ulu Grosbard
Sunday in New York (1961) Norman Krasna Sunday in New York (1963) Peter Tewksbury
Sunrise at Campobello (1958) Dore Schary Sunrise at Campobello (1960) Vincent J. Donehue
The Sunshine Boys (1972) Neil Simon The Sunshine Boys (1975) Herbert Ross
That Championship Season (1972) Jason Miller That Championship Season (1982) Jason Miller
They Might Be Giants (1961) James Goldman They Might Be Giants (1971) Anthony Harvey
A Thousand Clowns (1962) Herb Gardner A Thousand Clowns (1965) Fred Coe
Thunder Rock (1939) Robert Ardrey Thunder Rock (1942) Roy Boulting
Thieves (1974) Herb Gardner Thieves (1977) John Berry
The Tiger (1963) Murray Schisgal The Tiger Makes Out (1967) Arthur Hiller
Tin Pan Alley (1928) Hugh Stanislaus Stange New York Nights (1929) Lewis Milestone
Tropical Twins (Unpublished) Maxwell Anderson
Lawrence Stallings
The Cock-Eyed World (1929) Raoul Walsh
Twelve Angry Men (1954) Reginald Rose Twelve Angry Men (1954) Franklin Schaffner
12 Angry Men (1957)[21] Sidney Lumet
Twentieth Century (1932) Ben Hecht
Charles MacArthur
Twentieth Century (1934) Howard Hawks
Two for the Seesaw (1958) William Gibson Two for the Seesaw (1962) Robert Wise
Two Worlds John Golden
Hubert Osborne
Strange Experiment (1937) Albert Parker
Veneer (1929) Hugh Stanislaus Stange Young Bride (1932) William A. Seiter
Venus in Fur (2010) David Ives La Vénus à la Fourrure (2013) Roman Polanski
Victoria Regina (1934) Laurence Housman The Young Victoria (1963) Alan Burke
A View from the Bridge (1955) Arthur Miller Vu du pont (1962) Sidney Lumet
What Price Glory? (1924) Maxwell Anderson
Lawrence Stallings
What Price Glory? (1926) Raoul Walsh
What Price Glory? (1952) John Ford
What's Your Husband Doing? (1917) George V. Hobart What's Your Husband Doing? (1920) Lloyd Ingraham
What Say They? (1939) James Bridie You're Only Young Twice (1952) Terry Bishop
When We Are Married (1938) J. B. Priestley When We Are Married (1943) Lance Comfort
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962) Edward Albee Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) Mike Nichols
Who Was That Lady I Saw You With? (1958) Norman Krasna Who Was That Lady? (1960) George Sidney
Wildfire (1908) George V. Hobart and George Broadhurst Wildfire (1915) Edwin Middleton
Wildfire (1925) T. Hayes Hunter
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1955) George Axelrod Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957) Frank Tashlin
Woman to Woman (1921) Michael Morton Woman to Woman (1923) Graham Cutts
Woman to Woman (1929) Victor Saville
Woman to Woman (1947) Maclean Rogers
Women of Twilight (1951) Sylvia Rayman Women of Twilight (1952) Gordon Parry
The Yankee Girl (1910) George V. Hobart The Yankee Girl (1915) Jack J. Clark
The Years Between (1944) Daphne du Maurier The Years Between (1946) Compton Bennett
Yellow Jack (1934) Sidney Howard and Paul de Kruif Yellow Jack (1938) Guthrie McClintic
The Yellow Ticket (1914) Michael Morton The Yellow Passport (1916) Edwin August
The Yellow Ticket (1918) William Parke
The Yellow Ticket (1931) Raoul Walsh
Yerma (1934) Federico García Lorca Yerma (1984) Imre Gyöngyössy
Barna Kabay
Yerma (1998) Pilar Távora
Yes, My Darling Daughter (1937) Mark Reed Yes, My Darling Daughter (1939) William Keighley
Yes or No (1917) Arthur Goodrich Yes or No? (1920) Roy William Neill
You Can't Fool Antoinette (1927) Maurice Hennequin and
Pierre Veber
You Can't Fool Antoinette (1936) Paul Madeux
You Can't Take It with You (1936) George S. Kaufman
Moss Hart
You Can't Take It with You (1938) Frank Capra
Young America (1915) John Frederick Ballard Young America (1932) Frank Borzage
Young Medardus (1910) Arthur Schnitzler Young Medardus (1923) Michael Curtiz
Young Mrs. Winthrop (1882) Bronson Howard Young Mrs. Winthrop (1915)
Young Mrs. Winthrop (1920) Walter Edwards
Young Romance William C. deMille Young Romance (1915) George Melford
Young Woodley (1925) John Van Druten Young Woodley (1928) Thomas Bentley
Young Woodley (1930) Thomas Bentley
Zaza (1898) Pierre Berton and Charles Simon Zaza (1913) Adrien Caillard
Zaza (1915) Edwin S. Porter and Hugh Ford
Zaza (1923) Allan Dwan
Zaza (1939) George Cukor
Zaza (1944) Renato Castellani
Zaza (1956) René Gaveau
Zoot Suit (1979) Luis Valdez Zoot Suit (1981) Luis Valdez

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This is a list of feature films based on stage plays.

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References[edit]

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  5. ^ a b Gardner, Lyn (27 January 2012). "Alfie". The Guardian.
  6. ^ 'Film Of Anastasia', The Times, 23 Sep.1953, p2
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  8. ^ Wyatt, Nelson (29 January 2012). "Journey to Oscars began at the theatre for Canadian makers of 'Monsieur Lazhar'". The Canadian Press.
  9. ^ Hollinger, Hy (July 29, 1959). "Film Reviews: Blue Denim". Variety. p. 6.
  10. ^ Ebert, Roger (December 25, 1986). "Brighton Beach Memoirs". Chicago Sun-Times.
  11. ^ Canby, Vincent. "A Doll s House (1973)". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 March 2014.
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