The play has been adapted to film numerous times.
In 1923, the silent British film The School for Scandal was produced and directed by Bertram Phillips. It starred Basil Rathbone, Frank Stanmore and Queenie Thomas.
The 1930 film The School for Scandal was the first sound adaptation of the play. The film is presumed to be lost.
The first television adaptation aired over the BBC May 19, 1937. Greer Garson starred. BBC-TV again produced the play in 1959.
In 1975, WNET/13 New York, in association with KTCA St. Paul-Minneapolis, broadcast a production by the Guthrie Theater Company adapted by Michael Bawtree.[26]
