The Taming of the Shrew on screen been reworked numerous times for both cinema and television. Some of the better known adaptations include "Kiss Me Kate", a 1953 filmic adaptation of Cole Porter's 1948 musical based on the play, "McLintock!" (1963), "Il Bisbetico Domato" (1980), "10 Things I Hate About You" (1999), "Deliver Us from Eva" (2003) and "Isi Life Mein...!" (2010). The earliest cinematic adaptation of the play is D.W. Griffith's eleven-minute "The Taming of the Shrew", made for Biograph in 1908, starring Florence Lawrence as Katherina and Arthur V. Johnson as Petruchio. The blurb for the film stated "if we could see ourselves as others
The Taming of the Shrew on screen adaptations using relatively complete texts intended for use as educational tools in schools, with the primary aim being to show how the plays would have looked when originally performed. The production starred Karen Austin and Franklyn Seales. Other film versions (which are loose adaptations as opposed to straight translations from stage to screen) include: The earliest screening of the play is often inaccurately reported to have been broadcast on BBC Television Service in 1939, directed by Dallas Bower and starring Margaretta Scott and Austin Trevor. However, this was an adaptation of Garrick's "Catharine and Petruchio", not Shakespeare's "Shrew". The first