In 1917, du Maurier's story had been adapted into a very successful Broadway play starring John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Constance Collier and Laura Hope Crews. The story had also been filmed in 1921, as a silent film called "Forever" (1921), directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring the popular Wallace Reid. In the years following the 1935 film, a Ford Theater television "Peter Ibbetson" (1951) starring Richard Greene, and a "Campbell Playhouse" radio "Peter Ibbetson" (1951) directed by and starring Orson Welles were produced.