Film Oscar Wilde; Movies by Oscar Wilde, Writer

Al compás de tu mentira is a 1950 black-and-white Argentine musical film directed by Héctor Canziani. The film was adapted from Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of being Earnest by Abel Santacruz. The film starred Francisco Álvarez and Pedro Quartucci. The film is based on tango dancing, an integral part of Argentine culture. ...more on Wikipedia

Actors: Pedro Quartucci, Francisco Álvarez

Initial Release: 1950

Directed by: Héctor Canziani

Flesh and Fantasy is a 1943 American anthology film directed by Julien Duvivier, starring Edward G. Robinson, Charles Boyer and Barbara Stanwyck. The making of this film was inspired by the success of Duvivier's previous anthology film, the 1942 Tales of Manhattan. Flesh and Fantasy tells three stories, unrelated but with a supernatural theme, by Oscar Wilde,and László Vadnay, among others. Tying together the three segments is a conversation about the occult between two clubmen, one played by humorist Robert Benchley. ...more on Wikipedia

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Charles Boyer, Thomas Mitchell, Robert Cummings, + more

Initial Release: 1943

Directed by: Julien Duvivier

Salomé, a silent film directed by Charles Bryant and starring Alla Nazimova, is a film adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play of the same name. The play itself is a loose retelling of the biblical story of King Herod and his execution of John the Baptist at the request of his stepdaughter, Salomé, whom he lusts after. Salomé is often called one of the first art films to be made in the U.S. The highly stylized costumes, exaggerated acting, minimal sets, and absence of all but the most necessary props make for a screen image much more focused on atmosphere and on conveying a sense of the characters' individual heightened desires than on conventional plot development. ...more on Wikipedia

Actors: Alla Nazimova, Mitchell Lewis, Nigel De Brulier, Rose Dione, Frederick Peters, + more

Initial Release: 1923

Directed by: Charles Bryant

Salome's Last Dance is a 1988 film by British film director, Ken Russell. Although most of the action is a verbatim performance of Oscar Wilde's 1893 play Salome, which is itself based on a story from the New Testament, there is also a framing narrative written by Russell himself. Wilde and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas arrive late on Guy Fawkes Day at their friend's brothel, where they are treated to a surprise staging of Wilde's play, public performances of which have just been banned in England by the Lord Chamberlain's office. ...more on Wikipedia

Actors: Glenda Jackson, Ken Russell, David Doyle, Nickolas Grace, Stratford Johns, + more

Initial Release: 1988

Directed by: Ken Russell