The Admirable Crichton (1957 film) Barrie's play include a 1918 film adaptation directed by G. B. Samuelson, Cecil B. DeMille's "Male and Female" (1919), and "We're Not Dressing" (1934) with Bing Crosby. The play was also filmed twice for television, in 1950 and 1968. The Admirable Crichton (1957 film) The Admirable Crichton is a 1957 British comedy film directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Kenneth More, Diane Cilento, Cecil Parker and Sally Ann Howes. The film was based on J. M. Barrie's 1902 stage comedy of the same name. It was released in the United States as Paradise Lagoon. In 1905 William Crichton is the
The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957 film) The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957 film) The Pied Piper of Hamelin is an American ninety-minute musical film in color, originally made as a television special and first shown by NBC on Tuesday, November 26, 1957, as one of their Thanksgiving Week offerings for that year. It preempted that evening's telecasts of "The Nat King Cole Show" and "The Eddie Fisher Show". Based on the famous poem of the same name by Robert Browning and using the music of Edvard Grieg arranged by Pete King with special lyrics by Hal Stanley and Irving Taylor, it starred Van Johnson, Claude Rains