A brief listing of actors who created a role in the Broadway premiere of a play, and later played the same role in the film version:
TITLE | B'way | Actor | Film |
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE | 1941 | Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, John Alexander | 1941 |
BERKELEY SQUARE | 1929 | Leslie Howard, Valerie Taylor | 1933 |
CRIMINAL AT LARGE (THE FRIGHTENED LADY) | 1932 | Emlyn Williams (also London) | 1932 |
DOUBLE DOOR | 1933 | Mary Morris, Anne Revere | 1934 |
DRACULA | 1927 | Bela Lugosi, Edward Van Sloan, Herbert Bunston | 1931 |
DRACULA | 1977 | Frank Langella | 1979 |
KONGO | 1926 | Walter Huston (did not appear in 1928 film WEST OF ZANZIBAR) | 1932 |
LADIES IN RETIREMENT | 1940 | Isobel Elsom | 1941 |
THE MAN WHO RECLAIMED HIS HEAD | 1932 | Claude Rains | 1934 |
THE MONKEY TALKS | 1925 | Jacques Lerner | 1927 |
THE MONSTER | 1922 | Walter James | 1925 |
NIGHT MUST FALL | 1936 | May Whitty, Matthew Boulton | 1937 |
ANGEL STREET (GASLIGHT) | 1941 | Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Leo G. Carroll (none appeared in 1944 film) | 1958, TV |
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