Film adaptation adapted as both a musical play called "Kiss Me, Kate", which opened on Broadway in 1948, and as the 1953 Hollywood musical of the same name. "The Taming of the Shrew" was again retold in 1999 as a teen comedy set in a high school in "10 Things I Hate about You", and also in 2003 as an urban romantic comedy, "Deliver Us from Eva". The 1961 musical film "West Side Story" was adapted from "Romeo and Juliet", with its first incarnation as a Broadway musical play that opened in 1957. The animated film "The Lion King" (1994) was inspired
The Bell Jar starred Marilyn Hassett as Esther Greenwood, the protagonist and featured the tagline: "Sometimes just being a woman is an act of courage." In the film, Joan attempts to get Esther to agree to a suicide pact, an incident which is not in the book. Joan is implied to be a lesbian in Plath's novel. In the 1999 film, "10 Things I Hate About You", titular character Kat Stratford is seen reading "The Bell Jar". In July 2016, it was announced that Kirsten Dunst would be making her directorial debut with an adaptation of "The Bell Jar" starring Dakota Fanning as