The Woman in White

Adaptations

Theatre

  • 1860 Surrey Theatre stage melodrama The Woman in White
  • 1871 Wilkie Collins stage melodrama The Woman in White
  • 1975 Tim Kelly stage melodrama Egad, the Woman in White
  • 1988 Melissa Murray stage play The Woman in White[7]
  • 2004 Andrew Lloyd Webber stage musical The Woman in White
  • 2005 Constance Cox stage play The Woman in White[8]

Film and television

  • two 1912 American silent films
    • The Woman in White
  • two 1917 American silent films
    • The Woman in White with Florence La Badie
    • Tangled Lives
  • 1921 Austrian silent film The Woman in White
  • 1929 British silent film adapted by Robert Cullen starring Haddon Mason as Walter Hartright and Louise Prussing as Marian Halcombe
    • The Woman in White
  • The 1940 film Crimes at the Dark House (1940) directed by George King is loosely based on The Woman in White with Tod Slaughter playing the part of the false Sir Percival Glyde and Hay Petrie as Count Fosco renamed "Dr. Isidore Fosco.".
  • 1948 Hollywood film adapted by Stephen Morehouse Avery starring Gig Young as Walter Hartright, Alexis Smith as Marian Halcombe, Eleanor Parker as Laura Fairlie/Anne Catherick and Sydney Greenstreet as Count Fosco.
  • 1966 BBC serial in six parts starring Alethea Charlton as Marian Halcombe, Jennifer Hilary as Laura Fairlie and Nicholas Pennell as Walter Hartright. All six episodes are believed to be lost.
  • 1969 PTV Drama Safaid Saya starring Badr Muneer
  • 1971 German TV miniseries The Woman in White, adapted by Herbert Asmodi, directed by Wilhelm Semmelroth, starring Christoph Bantzer as Walter Hartright, Heidelinde Weis as Laura Fairlie/Anne Catherick and Eric Pohlmann as Count Fosco.
  • 1980 RAI Television (Italian National Public Broadcasting Company), Four episodes. Directed by Mario Morini; Screenplay by: Idalberto Fei and Giovannella Gaipa, starring Anna Maria Gherardi (Marian Halcombe), Micaela Esdra (Laura Glyde, née Fairlie), Paolo Bonacelli (Percival Glyde), Lino Troisi (Count Fosco)
  • 1982 BBC mini-series adapted by Ray Jenkins starring Daniel Gerroll as Walter Hartright and Diana Quick as Marian Halcombe
  • 1982 Soviet film under the Russian title Zhenshchina v belom, directed by Vadim Derbenyov and starring Aleksandr Abdulov as Walter Hartright and Lithuanian actress Gražina Baikštytė as both Laura Fairlie and Anne Catherick
  • 1997 BBC TV series adapted by David Pirie starring Andrew Lincoln as Walter Hartright and Tara Fitzgerald as Marian Halcombe; also broadcast on PBS television in 1998
  • 2018 BBC TV series was adapted by Fiona Seres. This series starred Ben Hardy as Walter Hartright and Jessie Buckley as Marian Halcombe. It aired in the UK in spring of 2018 in five episodes.

Radio

  • A 12-part adaptation by Howard Agg, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 October–December 1969, with Peter Baldwin as Walter Hartright, Margaret Wolfit as Marian Halcombe, Patricia Gallimore as Laura Fairlie, Denys Hawthorne as Sir Percival Glyde and Francis de Wolff as Count Fosco.[9]
  • A four-part adaptation by Martyn Wade, broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Classic Serial November–December 2001, with Toby Stephens as Walter Hartright, Juliet Aubrey as Marian Halcombe, Emily Bruni as Laura Fairlie, Jeremy Clyde as Sir Percival Glyde and Philip Voss as Count Fosco.[10]

Literature

  • Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child published the novel Brimstone (2004), featuring a modern re-imagining of the villain Count Fosco.
  • James Wilson, The Dark Clue (2001): a "sequel" to The Woman in White
  • Sarah Waters, Fingersmith (2002) is a reimagining of The Woman in White

Computer games

  • "Victorian Mysteries: Woman in White" created by FreezeTag Games (2010)

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