Other Treatments
An earlier movie version of the case, with the names changed, was directed by Mervyn Leroy in 1937 and called They Won't Forget, starring Claude Rains and Lana Turner.
In 1997, David Mamet published a book about Leo Frank called The Old Religion. The following year a Broadway musical called Parade, written by the playwright Alfred Uhry, with music composed by Jason Robert Brown was produced.
In 2004 the journalist Steve Oney published his history of the Mary Phagan case, entitled And the Dead Shall Rise. The trial and Frank's lynching have also been explored in works of academic history.
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