Movie adaptations of plays that starred the original actors — Page 2

More that come to mind:

The Man Who Came to Dinner - Monty Wooley and Mary Wickes

A Man for All Seasons - Paul Scofield (Tony and Oscar-winner)

Josephine Hull and Jean Adair (the two old ladies) and John Alexander (Teddy) from Arsenic and Old Lace.

Josephine Hull in Harvey as well (Oscar-winner).

Member of the Wedding - Julie Harris, Ethel Waters, Brandon de Wilde.

Updated On: 6/24/15 at 02:53 PM

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Helen Morgan and Charles Winninger - Show Boat. The movie also starred Paul Robeson for whom the role of Joe was created but was unavailable for the original stage production. Similarly, The Rose Tattoo was created for Anna Magnani, who starred in the movie, but was not available for the original stage production.

Why not include musicals? it wasn't specified, and musicals are plays, though sometimes play is used to distinguish non-musical plays.

Shirley Valentine- Pauline Collins.

Yes but you know musicals are plays too so from now on the Tonys will include musicals in the Best PLAY category. Because, yeah y'know they are one and the same.

So..nyah.

Updated On: 6/24/15 at 04:28 PM

Has Educating Rita - Julie Walters been mentioned yet?

And Ewan Bremner was Renton on stage in Trainspotting

Otis Skinner starred as Hajj in the original non-musical Kismet on Broadway in 1911 and then toured on-and-off with the show for the next 20 years. Some sources claim he played the part over 5,000 times. He starred in a 1920 silent film version and then a 1930 sound version. The 1930 version is a famous lost film. Warner Bros. spared no expense on the project and it was shot on 65 mm film in an early wide-screen format. Some sequences were in two-strip Technicolor. Only the Vitaphone sound discs and photos survive.

Sarah Bernhardt starred in silent films of several of her most famous stage roles, including La Dame aux Camélias (Camille) and La Tosca. She also made a two minute experimental sound film of her performance of Hamlet.

W.C. Fields filmed his 1923 stage hit Poppy twice, once as a silent directed by D.W. Griffith retitled Sally of the Sawdust and then again with sound in 1936 as Poppy.

Updated On: 6/25/15 at 09:23 PM

Katharine Hepburn in the Philip Barry play "The Philadelphia Story" .

At that point in her career she she was labeled "box office poison " but was smart enough to buy the film rights to the play before it opened.

Also Brooke Adams in that underrated off Broaway gem of a play "Key Exchange" which she starred on also in the big screen in 1985.

Updated On: 6/25/15 at 01:57 AM

Ingrid Bergman starred in Broadway in Maxwell Anderson's "Joan of Arc" (not the Bernard shaw play St. Joan) and also in the Hollywood adaptation.

The movie version changed so much of the play, including the very structure of having actors seen rehearsing a play about Joan of Arc and made it literally into a historical drama that it seemed one couldn't possilby have morphed into the other.

Anthony Newley and Tony Tanner - "Stop the world I want to get off"

Eric Bogosian "Talk Radio".

Updated On: 6/25/15 at 03:48 AM

"I think everyone missed Henry Fonda/Mister Roberts."

You think wrong, babe.

*Morgan Freeman got to reprise his role as Hoke Colburn in the film adaptation of Driving Miss Daisy.

*Three of the original Broadway cast members of Jersey Boys (John Lloyd Young, Donnie Kehr, and Erica Piccininni) got to reprise their roles in the film adaptation. Other stage veterans included Erich Bergen (1st National Tour, Las Vegas), Michael Lomenda (Toronto, National Tour), and Renee Marino (National Tour, Broadway).

*Jim Parsons got to reprise his role as Tommy Boatwright in the film adaptation of The Normal Heart.

*Four of the cast members in the film adaptation of Grease also appeared in the original Broadway production such as John Travolta, Jeff Conaway, Barry Pearl, and Jamie Donnelly.

*Several of the cast members in the film adaptation of Les Miserables also appeared in the West End production, a few of them were reprising their roles (Samantha Barks, Daniel Huttlestone, etc.).

*Both John Cameron Mitchell and Miriam Shor got to reprise their roles in the film adaptation of Hedwig & the Angry Inch.

*Ron Moody got to reprise his role as Fagin in the film adaption of Oliver!. Jack Wild also appeared in the original production as a Workhouse Boy/Fagin's Gang.

*Topol who played Tevye in the West End production of Fiddler on the Roof got to reprise his role in the film adaptation. Leonard Frey who played Motel in the film was Mendel, The Rabbi's Son in the original Broadway cast.

*Aileen Quinn who was a swing orphan in the original Broadway production of Annie got to play the title role in the 1982 film adaptation.

*Ellen Greene got to reprise her role as Audrey in the film adaptation of Little Shop of Horrors.

Updated On: 6/25/15 at 08:59 AM