Film and Theater Adaptations
The House of Mirth has been adapted several times into other media:
- 1906 stage adaptation written by Edith Wharton and Clyde Fitch.
- 1918 silent film adaptation, The House of Mirth (La Maison du Brouillard) directed by French film director Albert Capellani, starring Katherine Harris Barrymore as Lily Bart. This silent film is considered to be a lost film.
- 2000 film adaptation, The House of Mirth, directed by Terence Davies, starring Gillian Anderson as Lily Bart.
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