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  1. SussexWorld. Reinterpreting classic The Cat and The Canary for now. Story by Phil Hewitt. • 11m. It’s the final play in the CFT summer season 2024. A co-production with Told by an Idiot, it ...

  2. Oct 4, 2024 · Carl Grose adapts John Willard’s The Cat and the Canary at Chichester Festival Theatre in a co-production with Told by an Idiot.

  3. Adaptations & derivative works: Film — Live-Action. The Cat and the Canary (1927): A silent adaptation, directed by Paul Leni, and starring Laura La Plante and Creighton Hale. One of the earliest Universal Horror films.

  4. THE CAT AND THE CANARY is a classic horror comedy released in 1939. The film follows the story of Joyce Norman, played by Paulette Goddard, who inherits a mansion from her eccentric uncle.

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    • Bob Hope
    • Elliott Nugent
    • Paramount Pictures
  5. This chapter argues that Leni’s film and the films it influenced—including its own remakes—lent formal and affective shape to what trade magazines of the 1920s and 30s called the thriller-chiller-comedy, inaugurating horror-comedy as a genre.

  6. Dec 16, 2022 · The Cat and the Canary is a remake of the 1927 silent which, itself, was an adaptation of the 1922 play by John Willard, which ushered in the “old dark house” genre. The remake, which stars Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard and John Beal, has moved the story’s location from New York to the backwater bayous of Louisiana to give the piece an added ...

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  8. This chapter argues that Leni’s first film with Universal Pictures, The Cat and the Canary , created a visual and aural iconography that was essential for its cinematic progeny: namely, its...

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