Edward Zwick made a film based on what play?
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Edward Zwick Edward M. Zwick (born October 8, 1952) is an American filmmaker, director and Academy Award-winning film and television producer. He has worked primarily in the comedy-drama and epic historical film genres, including "About Last Night, Glory, Legends of the Fall," and "The Last Samurai."
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About Last Night (1986 film) About Last Night (styled as About Last Night...) is a 1986 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Edward Zwick, and starring Rob Lowe and Demi Moore as Chicago yuppies who enter a committed relationship for the first time. The screenplay by Tim Kazurinsky and Denise DeClue is based on the 1974 David Mamet play "Sexual Perversity in Chicago". The film was remade as the 2014 "About Last Night" (without the ellipsis).
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The Chalk Garden The Chalk Garden is a play by Enid Bagnold that premiered on Broadway in 1955. The play tells the story of Mrs. St. Maugham and her granddaughter Laurel, a disturbed child under the care of Miss Madrigal, a governess. The setting of the play was inspired by Bagnold's own garden at North End House in Rottingdean, near Brighton, Sussex, the former home of Sir Edward Burne-Jones. The work has since been revived numerous times internationally, including a film adaptation in 1964.
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Playing with the Devil Playing with the Devil (Czech: "Hrátky s čertem" ) is a 1945 Czech fairy-tale comedy play by playwright Jan Drda. It was adapted into a 1956 film directed by Josef Mach starring popular actor Josef Bek, with animated decorations by Josef Lada. In 1979, another film adaptation was made in Poland which is the one most memorable in European culture and continues to make this play popular. It was directed by Tadeusz Lis and starred well-known Polish actors Janusz Gajos, Jerzy Kamas, Marian Kociniak, Marek Kondrat.
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Desire Under the Elms Desire Under the Elms is a 1924 play written by Eugene O'Neill. Like "Mourning Becomes Electra", "Desire Under the Elms" signifies an attempt by O'Neill to adapt plot elements and themes of Greek tragedy to a rural New England setting. It was inspired by the myth of Phaedra, Hippolytus, and Theseus. A film version was produced in 1958, and there is an operatic setting by Edward Thomas.
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L'Angoisse L'Angoisse is a French play by Pierre Mills and Celia de Vilyars. The film rights to it were bought by Vernon Sewell who filmed it four times: "The Medium" (1934), "Latin Quarter" (1945), "Ghost Ship" (1952) and "House of Mystery" (1961).
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Bus Stop (William Inge play) Bus Stop is a 1955 play by William Inge. The 1956 film of the same name is only loosely based on it.
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The Whole Town's Talking (1926 film) The Whole Town's Talking is a 1926 American silent adventure comedy film directed by Edward Laemmle, based on a play by Anita Loos and John Emerson. It stars Edward Everett Horton, Virginia Lee Corbin, and Trixie Friganza.
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My Three Angels My Three Angels is a comedy play by Samuel and Bella Spewack. The play is based on the French play "La Cuisine Des Anges" by Albert Husson, and is their only play that is regularly performed in repertory theater.
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Op Hoop van Zegen (films) Op Hoop van Zegen is a 1900 Dutch play.
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Thirty Days (1922 film) Thirty Days is a 1922 American silent farce produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on a play by "Thirty Days" by A. E. Thomas and Clayton Hamilton which did not make it to Broadway.
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Sherlock Holmes (1932 film) Sherlock Holmes is a 1932 American Pre-Code film starring Clive Brook as the eponymous London detective. The movie is based on the successful stage play "Sherlock Holmes" by William Gillette, in turn based on the stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, and is directed by William K. Howard for the Fox Film Corporation. Brook had played Holmes three years previously in "The Return of Sherlock Holmes".
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Topaze (1933 American film) Topaze is a 1933 American Pre-Code film based on the French play of the same name by Marcel Pagnol. Another film version of "Topaze", this one made in the original French was also released that year, starring Louis Jouvet in the title role. Subsequently Pagnol himself directed a 1936 adaptation.
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Goodbye Broadway Goodbye Broadway is a 1938 American film. The movie is based on the play "The Shannons of Broadway" written by actor (and ex-vaudevillian) James Gleason. A previous film had been made of the play entitled "The Shannons of Broadway".
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Twelfth Night (1986 film) Twelfth Night is a 1986 Australian film based on the play directed by Neil Armfield.
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Legends of the Fall Legends of the Fall is a 1994 American epic drama film directed by Edward Zwick and starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn, Julia Ormond and Henry Thomas. Based on the 1979 novella of the same title by Jim Harrison, the film is about three brothers and their father living in the wilderness and plains of Montana in the early 20th century and how their lives are affected by nature, history, war and love. The film's time frame spans from World War I through the Prohibition era, ending with a brief scene set in 1963. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards and won for Best Cinematography (John Toll). Both the film and book contain occasional Cornish language terms, the Ludlows being a Cornish emigrant family.
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Blue Jeans (play) Blue Jeans is a melodramatic play by Joseph Arthur that opened in New York City in 1890 to great popularity. The sensation of the play is a scene where the unconscious hero is placed on a board approaching a huge buzz saw in a sawmill, which became one of the most dramatic imitated scenes (eventually to the point of cliche). The play remained popular for decades, and was made into a popular silent film in 1917.
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The Return of Peter Grimm (1926 film) The Return of Peter Grimm is a 1926 silent film fantasy directed by Victor Schertzinger based on the 1911 play by David Belasco. It was produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation.
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The Tempest (1911 film) The Tempest (1911) is an American one-reel silent film adaptation of the William Shakespeare play "The Tempest". It was directed by Edwin Thanhouser, and starred Ed Genung as Ferdinand and Florence La Badie as Miranda, and released by Thanhouser Film Corporation. One of the earliest film adaptations of the play, it was released on November 28, 1911.
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Edward the King (play) Edward The King is a 2008 two-act play by American playwright David Brendan Hopes. The play is an adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's play "Edward II", which in turn is a dramatization of the real-life story of Edward II of England.
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1912 play) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a Broadway play that debuted at the Little Theatre on West 44th Street, New York City, on October 31, 1912. Based on the stories by the Brothers Grimm, it was produced by Winthrop Ames who had written it under the pseudonym "Jessie Braham White." The play met with favorable reviews and became the basis for the 1916 film, "Snow White".
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Lady Frederick Lady Frederick is a comedy by the British writer W. Somerset Maugham, written early in his career. The play was first seen in London in 1907, and was very successful, running for 422 performances. The title role was played by Ethel Irving. In New York it was first performed in 1908, with Lady Frederick played by Ethel Barrymore, who reprised her role in the play's film adaptation, "The Divorcee".