124. Pollyanna

We're steadily working our way through the library of classic stories of orphan children, and in Episode 124 of Adapt or Perish we've finally gotten to Pollyanna "Glad Game" Whittier!

In this episode, we discuss:

• Eleanor H. Porter's original 1913 novel
• Pollyanna, the 1920 silent movie, directed by Paul Powell, written by Frances Marion, and starring Mary Pickford
• Pollyanna, the 1960 Disney movie, written and directed by David Swift, and starring Hayley Mills, Jane Wyman, Richard Egan, Karl Malden, Nancy Olson, Agnes Moorehead, and Kevin Corcoran
• Pollyanna, the 1973 miniseries, directed by June Wyndham-Davies, written by Joy Harington, and starring Elizabeth Archard, Elaine Stritch, Ray McAnally, Paul Maxwell, Paddy Frost, and Robert Coleby
• The Story of Pollyanna, Girl of Love, the 1986 anime series, directed by Kōzō Kusuba, and written by Chisako Kuki and Akae Kunihiro
• Polly, the 1989 TV movie musical, directed by Debbie Allen, written by W.F. Blinn, and starring Keshia Knight Pulliam, Phylicia Rashad, Dorian Harewood, Brandon Quintin Adams, Brock Peters, Ken Page, and Celeste Holm
• Pollyanna, the 2004 TV movie, directed by Sarah Harding, written by Simon Nye, and starring Georgina Terry, Amanda Burton, Kenneth Cranham, Aden Gillett, Pam Ferris, David Bamber, Kate Ashfield, and Tom Ellis

Footnotes:

• Take Up Thy Bed and Walk: Death, Disability and Cure in Classic Fiction for Girls by Lois Keith
• Click here to witness the performance of the greatest extra in the history of filmed entertainment

123. Pinocchio

In what has turned out to be a mega-episode of Adapt or Perish, we're taking a look at Carlo Collodi's classic children's story Pinocchio! How quickly will these adaptations go off the rails? Give a listen and find out (hint: it's immediately).

In this episode, we discuss:

• The Adventures of Pinocchio, Carlo Collodi's 1883 novel
• Pinocchio, the 1940 American animated movie, produced by Walt Disney, direction supervised by Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske, and story by Ted Sears, Otto Englander, Webb Smith, William Cottrell, Joseph Sabo, Erdman Penner, and Aurelius Battaglia
• The Adventures of Buratino, the 1959 Soviet animated movie, directed by Dmitriy Babichenko and Ivan Ivanov-Vano, and written by Nikolai Erdman and Lyudmila Tolstaya
• Pinocchio, the 1965 American musical TV special, directed by Nick Havinga, written by Jim Eiler, and performed by The Prince Street Players
• Pinocchio, the 1971 theatrical movie, sometimes listed as The Erotic Adventures of Pinocchio, directed by Corey Allen, and written by Allen and Chris Warfield
• The Adventures of Pinocchio, the 1972 Italian animated movie (released in English in the United States in 1978), written and directed by Giuliano Cenci
• Pinocchio, the 1976 American musical TV special, directed by Ron Field, music by Billy Barnes, and starring Sandy Duncan, Danny Kaye, and Clive Revill
• Pinocchio, the 1978 British miniseries, directed by Barry Letts, and written by Alec Drysdale
• Pinocchio, the 1984 episode of Faerie Tale Theatre, directed by Peter Medak, written by Mark Curtiss and Rod Ash, and starring Shelley Duvall, Paul Reubens, Carl Reiner, Lainie Kazan, and James Coburn
• The Adventures of Pinocchio, the 1996 American movie, directed by Steve Barron, written by Barron, Sherry Mills, Tom Benedek, and Barry Berman, and starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Martin Landau, Udo Kier, and Geneviève Bujold
• Geppetto, the 2000 American TV musical movie, directed by Tom Moore, written by David I. Stern, music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, and starring Drew Carey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Brent Spener, René Auberjonois, and Seth Adkins
• Pinocchio, the 2002 Italian movie, directed by and starring Roberto Benigni, written by Benigni and Vincenzo Cerami, and co-starring Nicoletta Braschi, Carlo Giuffrè, Peppe Barra, Franco Javarone, and Kim Rossi Stuart
• Pinocchio, the 2009 British-Italian miniseries, directed by Alberto Sironi, written by Ivan Cotroneo and Carlo Mazzotta, and starring Bob Hoskins, Robbie Kay, Joss Ackland, and Thomas Brodie-Sangster
• Pinocchio, the 2012 Italian animated movie, written and directed by Enzo D'Alò
• Pinocchio, the 2019 Italian movie, directed by Matteo Garrone, written by Garrone and Massimo Ceccherini, and starring Roberto Benigni and Federico Ielapi
• Pinocchio, the 2022 live-action remake of the 1940 Disney original, directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Zemeckis and Chris Weitz, and starring Tom Hanks, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Cynthia Erivo
• Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, the 2022 American stop-motion animated movie, directed by Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson, written by del Toro and Patrick McHale, and starring David Bradley, Ewan McGregor, Gregory Mann, Christoph Waltz, Tilda Swinton, Cate Blanchett, and Ron Perlman

Footnotes:

• Commedia dell'arte
• New Hampshire's Story Land
• Pinocchio in Outer Space (1965)
• IKEA's EKKORE rocking moose

122. Mansfield Park

It's been too long since we've covered the works of Jane Austen, so with Episode 122 of Adapt or Perish, we're back with a look at Mansfield Park. Join us as we try to answer the question: Fanny Price, total wet blanket or introvert heroine?

In this episode, we discuss:

• Jane Austen's original 1814 novel
• The 1983 miniseries, directed by David Giles, written by Kenneth Taylor, and starring Sylvestra Le Touzel, Nicholas Farrell, Samantha Bond, Angela Pleasence, Anna Massey, Jackie Smith-Wood, and Robert Burbage
• The 1999 theatrical movie, written and directed by Patricia Rozema, and starring Frances O'Connor, Jonny Lee Miller, James Purefoy, Embeth Davidtz, Alessandro Nivola, Harold Pinter, and Hugh Bonneville
• The 2007 TV movie, directed by Iain B. MacDonald, written by Maggie Wadey, and starring Billie Piper, Blake Ritson, James D'Arcy, Jemma Redgrave, Douglas Hodge, Hayley Atwell, and Rory Kinnear

Footnotes:

• WERS, Emerson College's radio station