For Whom the Bell Tolls

Legacy

Adaptations

A Japanese poster for the 1943 American film adaptation For Whom the Bell Tolls.
  • A film adaptation titled For Whom the Bell Tolls, directed by Sam Wood, was released in 1943 starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. It was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Actress; however, only the Greek actress Katina Paxinou won an Oscar for her portrayal of Pilar. Cooper and Bergman later reprised their roles from the film for a radio adaptation broadcast on Lux Radio Theatre. In 1988, it was re-released with the inclusion of scenes cut from the original release.
  • In 1959, a television adaptation For Whom the Bell Tolls, directed by John Frankenheimer, was broadcast in two parts on CBS's Playhouse 90, starring Jason Robards and Maria Schell as Robert Jordan and Maria, with Nehemiah Persoff as Pablo, Maureen Stapleton as Pilar, and Eli Wallach as the gypsy Rafael.
  • In 1965, the BBC produced another television adaptation For Whom the Bell Tolls, as a four-part serial and a miniseries in American English.
  • In 1978, the Takarazuka Revue adapted the novel as a musical drama, produced by Star Troupe and starring Ran Ootori as Robert Jordan and Kurara Haruka as Maria. Cosmos Troupe revived the show in 2010.
  • In October 2014, the novel was dramatized in a two-part series on BBC Radio 4.

Documentary

  • The 2012 film Hemingway and Gellhorn depicts Hemingway's time in Spain during the Spanish Civil War when he was completing work on For Whom the Bell Tolls, and his relationship with the American novelist, travel writer and war correspondent Martha Gellhorn,[27] whom he credited with having inspired him to write the novel, and to whom he dedicated it.[28]

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