Films
There have been at least five adaptations of the play for the cinema: in 1935, a German film directed by Herbert Selpin and starring Brigitte Helm and Sybille Schmitz; in 1947, a British adaptation produced by London Films and starring Paulette Goddard, Michael Wilding and Diana Wynyard; in 1980 a Soviet version starring Lyudmila Gurchenko and Yury Yakovlev; in 1999 a British film starring Julianne Moore, Minnie Driver, Jeremy Northam, Cate Blanchett and Rupert Everett; and in 2000 a British film starring James Wilby and Sadie Frost.
Radio and television
The BBC has broadcast seven radio adaptations since its first, in 1926: a 1932 version starring Leslie Perrins and Kyrle Bellew; a radio version of the 1943 Westminster Theatre production; a Bristol Old Vic version in 1947 featuring William Devlin, Elizabeth Sellars, Catherine Lacey and Robert Eddison; a 1950 production with Griffith Jones, Fay Compton and Isabel Jeans; a 1954 version produced by Val Gielgud; a 1959 adaptation starring Tony Britton and Faith Brook; a 1970 version with Noel Johnson, Ronald Lewis, Jane Wenham and Rosemary Martin; and a 2007 adaption with Alex Jennings, Emma Fielding, Janet McTeer and Jasper Britton.[28]
BBC television adaptations were broadcast in 1958 (with Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Sarah Lawson, Faith Brook and Tony Britton)[29] and 1969 (with Keith Michell, Dinah Sheridan, Margaret Leighton and Jeremy Brett).[30]
A television version (Ein Idealer Gatte) in German was broadcast in June 1958 by Nord und Westdeutscher Rundfunkverband (NWRV) with Marius Goring as Lord Goring and Albert Lieven as Sir Robert Chiltern.[31]
