The film based on Saroyan's script, The Human Comedy, was released in 1943.
In 1943, Nick Hoffer drew a newspaper comic strip, La Comédie Humaine, based on The Human Comedy. It ran in Le Petit Journal, a Québec newspaper.[4]
An adaption by S. Lee Pogostin aired on television on the Dupont Show of the Month in March 1959. Pogostin's adaptation was highly praised by the New York Times. This production starred Michael J. Pollard and featured narration by Burgess Meredith.[5]
A musical adaptation for the stage, which The New York Times described as a "pop folk opera",[6] opened at Joseph Papp's Public Theatre on December 28, 1983, and eventually transferred to Broadway, where it closed after 19 previews and 13 performances.[7][8]
In 1992, Richard Klautsch directed an adaptation for the stage by Phil Atlakson at Boise State University that featured Randy Davison.[9]
A second film version, Ithaca (2015), was directed by Meg Ryan. Filming began in Richmond, Virginia and Petersburg, Virginia in July 2014.[10]
