Green Mansions - Film, TV, Theatrical and Comic Book Adaptations

Film, TV, Theatrical and Comic Book Adaptations

In 1937, Louis Gruenberg (1884–1964) composed a radio opera Green Mansions, which used a musical saw in the score.

In 1951, Gilberton Publishing released a comic book adaptation of Green Mansions as issue number 90 in their Classics Illustrated series. Direct quotes from the novel were used. In this adaptation Rima is blonde. The art was by Alex Blum, who drew many other issues of the Classics Illustrated series.

In 1959, the book was adapted into a movie, also entitled Green Mansions, starring Audrey Hepburn as Rima, with Anthony Perkins as Abel. The film, which was directed by Hepburn's husband, Mel Ferrer, was a critical and box office failure.

In the early 1970s, one of the more unusual adaptations of Green Mansions occurred when DC Comics launched the comic book Rima the Jungle Girl, featuring the title character recast as a Sheena-like action hero. This version of the character later appeared on the animated TV series Super Friends.

Rima the Jungle Girl returns to the DC Universe in a new pulp-era comic debuting in 2010 entitled First Wave. Rima will be portrayed as a South American native with piercings and tattoos, who doesn't speak, but communicates in bird-like whistles.