| Are new stage adaptations in the works for items that entered the public domain in 2025 | |
| Posted by: Ann 10:21 am EST 01/04/25 | |
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| A new Show Boat? Here are a few now eligible, excerpted from Wikipedia: Films: The Cocoanuts The Broadway Melody The Hollywood Revue Say It with Songs, the first all-talking film starring Al Jolson Spite Marriage, Buster Keaton's final full-length feature as a director Welcome Danger, Harold Lloyd's first sound film On with the Show!, the first sound film in color Hallelujah, one of the first films with an all-African American cast produced by a major studio The Cock-Eyed World, sequel to What Price Glory? (1926) Show Boat, containing some songs from the 1927 musical Blackmail, Alfred Hitchcock's first sound film and the first British sound film The Black Watch, John Ford's first sound film Dynamite, Cecil B. DeMille's first sound film Eternal Love, John Barrymore's last silent film The Virginian, Gary Cooper's and Victor Fleming's first sound film Where East Is East, last collaboration between Lon Chaney and Todd Browning Atlantic, the first sound film about the Titanic disaster The Return of Sherlock Holmes, the first sound film to star the character of Sherlock Holmes Behind That Curtain, the first sound film to star the character Charlie Chan The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu, the first sound film to star the character of Fu Manchu Bulldog Drummond, the first sound film to star the character Bulldog Drummond The Three Masks (Les trois masques), the first French sound film Land Without Women (Das Land ohne Frauen), the first German sound film Woman in the Moon (Frau im Mond), directed by Fritz Lang Pandora’s Box (Die Büchse der Pandora) and Diary of a Lost Girl (Tagebuch einer Verlorenen), both directed by G. W. Pabst and starring Louise Brooks The White Hell of Pitz Palu (Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü), directed by Arnold Fanck and G. W. Pabst and starring Leni Riefenstahl Drifters, a documentary film about Britain's North Sea herring fishery Un Chien Andalou, directed by Luis Buñuel and cowritten by Salvador Dalí The Mysteries of the Chateau of Dice (Les mystères du Château du Dé), directed by Man Ray Rain, a Dutch documentary short directed by Joris Ivens Sound versions of the Mickey Mouse cartoons The Gallopin' Gaucho and Plane Crazy, the 1929 cartoons including The Karnival Kid (in which Mickey speaks his first words); and the first Silly Symphony cartoons, including The Skeleton Dance. Books: Ernest Hemingway's novel A Farewell to Arms William Seabrook's novel The Magic Island Ellery Queen'The Roman Hat Mystery Margery Allingham's The Crime at Black Dudley The first English translation of Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front William Faulkner's novel The Sound and the Fury Dashiell Hammett's novel Red Harvest Edgar Rice Burroughs's novel Tarzan and the Lost Empire Ruth Plumly Thompson's novel Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz Bertrand Russell's book Marriage and Morals Patrick Hamilton's play Rope A. A. Milne's play Toad of Toad Hall Virginia Woolf's essay A Room of One's Own Ludwig Wittgenstein's essay Some Remarks on Logical Form |
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