In 1983, Estonian stage and film actress Ita Ever starred in the Russian language film adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel A Pocket Full of Rye ( using the Russian edition's translated title, The Secret of the Blackbirds ) as the character of Miss Marple.

In 1995, Cuarón released his first feature film produced in the United States, A Little Princess, an adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic novel.

Cuarón's feature, Children of Men, an adaptation of the P. D. James novel starring Clive Owen, Julianne Moore and Michael Caine, received wide critical acclaim, including three Academy Award nominations.

On November 9, 2008, a radio adaptation of the novel was broadcast on BBC Radio 3, starring Robert Lonsdale as Paul Bäumer and Shannon Graney as Katczinsky.

In 1999, Dark Horse Comics released a graphic novel adaptation of Whedon's original script under the title, The Origin.

In 2009, Panettiere starred again as a cheerleader, this time as Beth Cooper in the film adaptation of the novel I Love You, Beth Cooper.

One of his ancestors is John Elwes, who is believed to be the inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens ' A Christmas Carol ( 1843 ) ( Elwes played five roles in the 2009 film adaptation of the novel ).

In David Lynch's 1984 adaptation of the first novel, De Vries was played by Brad Dourif.

In 1971, Trumbo directed the film adaptation of his novel Johnny Got His Gun, which starred Timothy Bottoms, Diane Varsi, Jason Robards and Donald Sutherland.

The 1980 novel The Viceroy of Ouidah by Bruce Chatwin is set in Dahomey, as is its film adaptation, Cobra Verde ( 1987 ) by Werner Herzog.

Bowie explored new directions on The Buddha of Suburbia ( 1993 ), a soundtrack album of incidental music composed for the TV series adaptation of Hanif Kureishi's novel.

He had asked Raimi if he would direct a theatrical adaptation of the Stephen King ( written under his Richard Bachman pseudonym ) novel Thinner.

In 1983, he directed The Outsiders, a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by S. E. Hinton.

* And Quiet Flows the Don ( 1957-8 ) by Sergei Gerasimov-an adaptation of the Nobel prize winning novel And Quiet Flows the Don.

François Truffaut wrote and directed a film adaptation of the novel in 1966.

After the 1932 release of MGM's adaptation of The Mask of Fu Manchu, which featured the Asian villain telling an assembled group of " Asians " ( consisting of caricatural Indians, Persians and Arabs ) that they must " kill the white men and take their women ", a Harvard University student group petitioned MGM producer William Randolph Hearst ( who had also serialized the novel in his Cosmopolitan magazine ) to cease making further films based on the property.

In the mid-1960s he worked on pre-production for an adaptation of Martin Caidin's novel Marooned but budgetary constraints made him eventually shelve it.

During the autumn, Fellini researched and developed a treatment based on a film adaptation of Mario Tobino ’ s novel, The Free Women of Magliano.

In 2005, an adaptation of the novel was released on CD by the BBC Radio Collection to finally complete the run of Wimsey adaptations begun with Whose Body?

The Chambers were used as part of the location for The House of Mirth an adaptation of the novel by Edith Wharton by Terence Davies starring Gillian Anderson and Dan Aykroyd.

The Japanese Takarazuka Revue produced a musical adaptation of the novel.

The film adaptation of the novel " amplified this effect ".

Trent's Last Case is an adaptation of British author E. C. Bentley's 1913 novel of the same name, and had already been adapted to film in England in 1920.

Also in the 1970s, horror author Stephen King debuted on the film scene as many of his books were adapted for the screen, beginning with Brian De Palma's adaptation of King's first published novel, Carrie ( 1976 ), which was nominated for Academy Awards.

* Dune ( designs for unproduced Alejandro Jodorowsky adaptation of the Frank Herbert novel ; the movie Dune was later made in an adaptation by David Lynch.

In the 1976 Ira Levin novel The Boys from Brazil and its 1978 film adaptation, Josef Mengele uses cloning to create copies of Adolf Hitler.

The 25-point Program was a German adaptation — by Anton Drexler, Adolf Hitler, Gottfried Feder, and Dietrich Eckart — of Rudolf Jung ’ s Austro – Bohemian program ; unlike the Austrians, the Germans did not claim to being either liberal or democratic, and opposed neither political reaction nor the aristocracy, yet advocated democratic institutions ( i. e. the German central parliament ) and voting rights solely for Germans — implying that a Nazi Government would retain popular suffrage.

Adele is a musical in three acts with music by Jean Briquet and Adolph Philipp, original French book and lyrics by Paul Hervé, and English adaptation by Adolf Philipp and Edward A. Paulton.

Christopher Hampton's stage adaptation of George Steiner's novel The Portage to San Cristobal of A. H. at the Mermaid in 1982 gave McCowen a great final speech, an attempted vindication of racial extermination delivered by Adolf Hitler, which for Guardian critic Michael Billington was " one of the greatest pieces of acting I have ever seen: a shuffling, grizzled, hunched, baggy figure, yet suggesting the monomaniac power of the Nuremberg Rallies, inhabiting the frail vessel of this old man's body.

He also wrote the Iran-contra satire Mastergate, as well as Sly Fox and a musical adaptation of the Preston Sturges movie Hail the Conquering Hero ; during that show's troubled development Gelbart uttered the now-classic line, " If Hitler is alive, I hope he's out of town with a musical.

Other familiar titles are: Anzio by Edward Dmytryk, in 1968, his last Hollywood film appearance ; The North Star ( 1943 ), directed by Lewis Milestone with a script by playwright Lillian Hellman, with Erich von Stroheim ; Edge of Darkness ( 1943 ), also by Milestone, his first film role, where he played his first film German soldier role, opposite Judith Anderson ; Wilson ( 1944 ), where he played the German ambassador to Washington, D. C. during World War I, Count von Bernstorff ; The Cross of Lorraine ( 1943 ), with Gene Kelly ; The Hitler Gang, playing the Nazi official Alfred Rosenberg and Romanoff and Juliet ( 1961 ), written, directed and starring Peter Ustinov, and an Italian-American adaptation of Homer's Iliad, Helen of Troy ( 1956 ), directed by Robert Wise, with Rossanna Podesta, Jacques Sernas, and in two featured roles, Tonio Selwart playing opposite a then almost unknown Brigitte Bardot, in 1956.

These were followed by Wesley ( 1970 ); Scott of the Antarctic and A Sky-blue Life ( 1971 ); Hitler Dances, How Beautiful With Badges, and an adaptation of Measure for Measure ( 1972 ).

Jendresen is attached to multiple projects in various stages of development, including National Geographic Films ' Aloft ( starring Robert Redford ), The Hot Zone ( based on Richard Preston's novel ) Fire ( based on the Sebastian Junger book of the same name ), The 300 Spartans, Explaining Hitler, Cousteau, The Immortals, Journey to the Center of the Earth, a prequel to Star Trek, a 4-hour miniseries, " Majestic-12 ", a television series based on the history of The Pony Express with Robert Duvall, a television series based on the Francis Ford Coppola film, " The Conversation ", with Christopher McQuarrie, a television series " Mars " with NBC, a television series " Neurasthenia " with Melanie Griffith, an 8-hour miniseries adaptation of " Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West " with Salma Hayek and ABC, and a feature presentation " Killing Lincoln " which he is co-producing with Ridley Scott for the National Geographic Channel.

Previous attempts have included Piece Of My Heart, which was to star Renée Zellweger or Brittany Murphy ; The Gospel According To Janis, with director Penelope Spheeris and starring either Zooey Deschanel or P! nk ; and an untitled film thought to be an adaptation of Laura Joplin's Off-Broadway play about her sister, with the show's star, Laura Theodore, attached.

Susanna Kaysen, well known for her novel, Girl, Interrupted, and its film adaptation, has also published The Camera My Mother Gave Me, a novel concerning her own experience with vulvodynia and its debilitating symptoms.

His plays include The Designated Mourner, Aunt Dan and Lemon, and Grasses of a Thousand Colors ; he also co-wrote the screenplay for My Dinner with Andre with Andre Gregory, and scripted Vanya on 42nd Street, a film adaptation of Anton Chekov's play Uncle Vanya.

( He did accept the role of Humbert Humbert in Alan Jay Lerner's musical adaptation of Lolita entitled Lolita, My Love.

Mabou Mines presented the world premiere of a theatrical adaptation of Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said at the Boston Shakespeare Theatre from June 18 – 30, 1985.

The feature film Cowboy ( 1958 ) is an adaptation of the semi-autobiographical novel My Reminiscences as a Cowboy.

The film adaptation of the novel Blood Done Signed My Name was filmed in Shelby, as well as the film adaptations of The Hunger Games.

He also wrote a non-Sandman miniseries, My Faith in Frankie ( 2004 ), the comicbook adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere ( 2005-6 ) and the OGN God Save the Queen ( 2007 ).

Their stage work of the 1950s included the revue Two on the Aisle, starring Bert Lahr and Dolores Gray, with music by Jule Styne ; Wonderful Town, a musical adaptation of the play My Sister Eileen with music by Bernstein ; and Bells Are Ringing, which reunited them with Judy Holliday and Jule Styne.

Todmorden has been used as a filming location for the 1980s BBC TV police drama Juliet Bravo, Territorial Army series All Quiet on the Preston Front, parts of The League of Gentlemen, BBC TV miniseries Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, the award-winning BBC1 series Life on Mars and a film adaptation of the novel My Summer of Love.

Four more songs from the album Dead Man's Party were used in soundtracks: " No One Lives Forever " was featured in Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, " Stay " ( in the Boingo Alive version ) was used as the theme music for the Brazilian soap opera Top Model, " Same Man I Was Before " was used in My Best Friend Is a Vampire and " Just Another Day " opened the 1985 film adaptation of S. E. Hinton's That Was Then, This Is Now.

Eliza Doolittle, the central character in George Bernard Shaw's play, Pygmalion, and the musical adaptation by Alan Jay Lerner, My Fair Lady, is a Covent Garden flower seller.

Her long career has included many films and television programmes, but she is probably best known for starring as Livia in the popular BBC adaptation of Robert Graves's novel, I, Claudius ( BBC2, 1976 ), for which she won the 1977 BAFTA Television Award for Best Actress, and for many appearances on the original run of Call My Bluff.

The road is featured briefly in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows when Harry and his friends were escaping from Death Eaters, by J. K. Rowling ; The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins ; Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf ; Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw and its musical adaptation, My Fair Lady ; Saturday and Atonement by Ian McEwan ; several Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; the Saki story Reginald on Christmas Presents ; several stories by John Collier ; A Room with a View by E. M. Forster ; The London Eye Mystery, The Late Mr Elvesham by Herbert G. Wells by Siobhan Dowd ; The Wish House by Celia Rees ; a The Matrix-based story, Goliath by Neil Gaiman ; features often in novels by Mark Billingham and The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon.

In a 2008 interview on College Hour, Malkovich revealed that he has been discussing making a motion picture adaptation of the Arnon Grünberg novel The History of My Baldness.

* Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee ( film ), a 2007 film adaptation of the Dee Brown book, produced by HBO Films

* The Falcon Takes Over ( 1942 ) — ( adaptation of Farewell My Lovely with detective " The Falcon " substituting for Marlowe ) George Sanders as The Falcon.

* Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 ) — ( adaptation of released in the UK as Farewell My Lovely ) Dick Powell as Marlowe.

The series started on 5 February 2011 on BBC Radio 4 with a 90 minute adaptation of The Big Sleep and continued with The Lady in the Lake ( 12 February 2011 ), Farewell My Lovely ( 19 February 2011 ) and Playback ( 26 February 2011 ).

In 1957, the DuPont Show of the Month on CBS offered an adaptation of The Prince and the Pauper, with Johnny Washbrook ( born 1944 ), of My Friend Flicka playing the role of Tom Canty and Rex Thompson ( born 1942 ) as Prince Edward.

The 1934 cinematic adaptation featured the newly composed song Over My Shoulder which was to go on to become Matthews ' personal theme song, later giving its title to her autobiography and to a 21st-century musical stage show of her life.

In 2002 he wrote and starred in Bradford in My Dreams, an adaptation of a short story by Lawrence Block for the BBC.

His later films include Pretty Baby ( 1978 ), Atlantic City ( 1981 ), My Dinner with Andre ( 1981 ), Crackers ( 1984 ), Alamo Bay ( 1985 ), Damage ( 1992 ) and Vanya on 42nd Street ( 1994, an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play Uncle Vanya ) in English ; Au revoir, les enfants ( 1987 ) and Milou en Mai ( May Fools in the U. S., 1990 ) in French.