The Late Christopher Bean is a comedy drama adapted from "Prenez garde à la peinture" by René Fauchois. It exists in two versions: an American adaptation by Sidney Howard (1932) and an English version by Emlyn Williams (1933). Williams's is an anglicisation of Howard's, with the action moved from near Boston to the English countryside. The events are unchanged, although two characters are renamed. The family maid, Abby in Howard's version, becomes Gwenny, a Welsh woman of mature years, and the "ingénue"'s young admirer Warren Creamer becomes the Scottish Bruce McRae in Williams's adaptation.