My favorite movie from a play, in fact it borders on being a filmed
play with the the stage curtain effect at the beginning is the 1952
Anthony Asquith directed The Importance of Being Earnest. It also
comes with one of my favorite lines:
Lady Augusta Bracknell: Are your parents living?
Another excellent choice! One of my favorites as well.
Richard Del Belso
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:25:52 -0700
From: chun...@umaryland.edu
Subject: Re: [MOPO] favoite Move from a Play
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
My favorite movie from a play, in fact it borders on being
DIAL M FOR MURDER is an excellent choice...but how about A STREETCAR NAMED
DESIRE, or CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, or WHO'S ARAID OF VIRGINIA WOLFF, or WATCH ON
THE RHINE? Those are among my favorites.
This, of course, assumes that you are exclding MUSICAL plays, as a separate
category...because
Subject: RE: [MOPO] favoite Move from a Play
DIAL M FOR MURDER is an excellent choice...but how about A STREETCAR NAMED
DESIRE, or CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, or WHO'S ARAID OF VIRGINIA WOLFF, or WATCH ON
THE RHINE? Those are among my favorites.
This, of course, assumes that you are exclding
THE BAD SEED play ending was the same as the book, where the mother dies
and someone tells her husband that at least he has little Rhoda to
comfort him...ha!
The movie ending was forced by the Production Code, that stated at the
time that all wrongdoing must be punished in the end. It was an
DraculaAug 28, 2009 04:36:31 PM, dialmbb...@aol.com wrote:
what's your favorite Movie from a play? i believe that the answer should be a movie that had few changes from the play.
mine is: DIAL M FOR MURDER
Dial M for Murder premiered in 1952 as a BBC television play, before being performed on
Dead End
no question about it
At 09:35 AM 8/28/2009, Michael B wrote:
what's your favorite Movie from a play? i believe that the answer
should be a movie that had few changes from the play.
mine is: DIAL M FOR MURDER
Dial M for Murder premiered in 1952 as a
DEAD END, AMADEUS, ALL ABOUT EVE
Toochis
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Dead End
no question about it
At 09:35 AM
Sleuth: the Mankiewicz version of the Shaffer play.
Simon
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From: Toochis Morin
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Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 10:33 PM
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DEAD END, AMADEUS, ALL ABOUT EVE
Toochis
: Friday, August 28, 2009 10:33 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] favoite Move from a Play
DEAD END, AMADEUS, ALL ABOUT EVE
Toochis
From: Richard Halegua Comic Art sa...@comic-art.com
To: MoPo-L
Philadelphia Story.
Casablanca is probably cheating, as the play didn't make it to the stage
before it was converted into the movie.
Devil Girl From Mars apparently came from a play – about time it got a
West End/Broadway revival!
Paul
_www.movieposterstudio.com_
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