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 annoyed that he has to read "The Shrew" for his homework, rather than watching his favourite programme, "Moonlighting" itself. He goes to his room and begins reading, and the episode then takes place in his mind as he imagines the members of the cast of "Moonlighting" in an adaptation of the play itself, with Cybill Shepherd as Katherina and Bruce Willis as Petruchio. In 1994, BBC aired an as part of "". This version adapted the end of "The Taming of a Shrew" to round out the frame; after Sly announces he now knows how to tame a shrew, he