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Movie adaptations of plays that starred the original actors
#25Movie adaptations of plays that starred the original actors
Posted: 6/24/15 at 2:53pm
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.
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#26Movie adaptations of plays that starred the original actors
Posted: 6/24/15 at 2:57pm
1978 Best Play, "Da" was filmed ten years later with Barnard Hughes reprising his Tony-winning Broadway role.
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Updated On: 6/24/15 at 02:57 PM
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#27Movie adaptations of plays that starred the original actors
Posted: 6/24/15 at 3:03pm
Eric Bogosian - Talk Radio
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.
#28Movie adaptations of plays that starred the original actors
Posted: 6/24/15 at 3:07pm
Plays are people, too! I mean musicals are plays, too!
That said ...
Hermione Gingold and Len Cariou in A Little Night Music
Jane Connell in Mame
Yul Brynner (duh) in The King & I
Stubby Kaye, Vivian Blaine, and Johnny Silver in Guys and Dolls.
Juanita Hall in South Pacific (although they dubbed her)
Myoshi Umeki, Key Luke, and Juanita Hall in Flower Drum Song (Jack Soo as well, but he played a different part).
Rex Harrison and Stanley Holloway in My Fair Lady.
So ... nyah.
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#29Movie adaptations of plays that starred the original actors
Posted: 6/24/15 at 3:07pm
Shirley Valentine- Pauline Collins.
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#30Movie adaptations of plays that starred the original actors
Posted: 6/24/15 at 3:50pm
I just assumed Fantod made the distinction of asking for plays and not musicals for a reason, perhaps because there was a thread about stage performers repeating their roles on films pretty recently.
There are SO many. How To Succeed, Rent, The Producers, A Funny Thing, Damn Yankees, The Pajama Game, Gypsy, Godspell, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cabaret...find the thread, a lot was covered.
#31Movie adaptations of plays that starred the original actors
Posted: 6/24/15 at 4:28pm
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#32Movie adaptations of plays that starred the original actors
Posted: 6/24/15 at 4:53pm
It's always about awards with you.
"Normal" people who don't care about awards categories, including well-established people in the industry, refer to The Sound of Music as a play or Grease as a play or Wicked as a play.
Jeebus, do you get out much?
:P
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#33Movie adaptations of plays that starred the original actors
Posted: 6/24/15 at 5:32pm
Has Educating Rita - Julie Walters been mentioned yet?
And Ewan Bremner was Renton on stage in Trainspotting
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#34Movie adaptations of plays that starred the original actors
Posted: 6/24/15 at 6:48pm
I think everyone missed Henry Fonda/Mister Roberts.
#35Movie adaptations of plays that starred the original actors
Posted: 6/24/15 at 9:23pm
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
#36Movie adaptations of plays that starred the original actors
Posted: 6/25/15 at 1:44am
Another older classic ... Bela Lugosi as Dracula. He played the role on Broadway first in 1927 before doing the film version in 1931. Also from that Broadway cast to repeat the role on film: Edward Van Sloan as Dr. Van Helsing.
1932's (Best Picture winner) "Grand Hotel" had one holdover from the Broadway production: Rafaela Otiano as Garbo's devoted maid Suzette.
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#37Movie adaptations of plays that starred the original actors
Posted: 6/25/15 at 1:57am
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.
"when I’m on stage I see the abyss and have to overcome it by telling myself it’s only a play." - Helen Mirren
Updated On: 6/25/15 at 01:57 AM
#38Movie adaptations of plays that starred the original actors
Posted: 6/25/15 at 2:40am
Fred Astaire starred in both the Broadway show The Band Wagon (with his sister Adele) and the MGM film of the same name. This is not completely on topic as the MGM film is not a true adaptation of the stage show. The stage show was a review with songs and comedy sketches while the film was a fully plotted backstage musical, borrowing only the its title and two or three songs (including I Love Louisa and Dancing in the Dark) from the stage production.
ETA, I'm sorry, are we including musicals or not?
Updated On: 6/25/15 at 02:40 AM
#39Movie adaptations of plays that starred the original actors
Posted: 6/25/15 at 2:59am
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.
"when I’m on stage I see the abyss and have to overcome it by telling myself it’s only a play." - Helen Mirren
#40Movie adaptations of plays that starred the original actors
Posted: 6/25/15 at 3:19am
Paul Robeson did not create the role of The Emperor Jones but he replaced the original actor when the actor had a dispute with author Eugene O'Neill. Robeson later starred in the first film version in 1933.
And if we are doing musicals, Merman in Anything Goes: Broadway 1934, film 1936 with Bing Crosby, and TV 1954 with Frank Sinatra.
Updated On: 6/25/15 at 03:19 AM
#41Movie adaptations of plays that starred the original actors
Posted: 6/25/15 at 3:48am
Anthony Newley and Tony Tanner - "Stop the world I want to get off"
Eric Bogosian "Talk Radio".
"when I’m on stage I see the abyss and have to overcome it by telling myself it’s only a play." - Helen Mirren
Updated On: 6/25/15 at 03:48 AM
#42Movie adaptations of plays that starred the original actors
Posted: 6/25/15 at 4:49am
To be a bit more precise, skies, Tony Tanner played Littlechap in the film of Stop the World. Newley did not appear in the film. But Tanner had been in the original West End production of the show, replacing Newley when the latter left to star in the Broadway production.
Updated On: 6/25/15 at 04:49 AM
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#43Movie adaptations of plays that starred the original actors
Posted: 6/25/15 at 6:22am
"I think everyone missed Henry Fonda/Mister Roberts."
You think wrong, babe.
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#44Movie adaptations of plays that starred the original actors
Posted: 6/25/15 at 8:43am
An interesting case in musicals casting is Michele Lee in HOW TO SUCCEED. She replaced Bonnie Scott as Rosemary in the original production, but was cast to play the role in the film. Most of the principals (Morse, Vallee, Kobart, Smith) were in fact from the Broadway production, but Lee was, I believe, the only Broadway replacement.
#45Movie adaptations of plays that starred the original actors
Posted: 6/25/15 at 8:59am
*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#46Movie adaptations of plays that starred the original actors
Posted: 6/25/15 at 1:21pm
Judy Holliday - Bells are Ringing
Len Cariou - A Little Night Music
Mabel King and Ted Ross - The Wiz
Tim Curry, Nell Campbell, Patricia Quinn, Meat Loaf, Richard O'Brien and Jonathan Adams - The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Loretta Devine* and Hinton Battle* - Dreamgirls (*in different roles)
Joel Grey - Cabaret
Farrah Fawcett* and James Russo - Extremities (*replaced Susan Sarandon in the original Off-Broadway production)
Paula Kelly*, John McMartin, Suzanne Charny - Sweet Charity (*played the role in the Original London Cast opposite Juliet Prowse)
Melba Moore*, Ronnie Dyson*, Ellen Foley**, Annie Golden** - Hair (*played different role in original Broadway production, **played different role in 1977 Broadway revival.)
Tommy Steele - Half A Sixpence
Zero Mostel and Jack Gilford - A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
Julie Newmar - The Marriage-Go-Round
Jayne Mansfield - Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter
Peter Palmer, Julie Newmar, Stubby Kaye, Howard St. John, Joe E. Marks, Carmen Alvarez - Li'l Abner
Updated On: 6/25/15 at 01:21 PM
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