on the screenplay, keeping virtually all of the play's original dialogue, and was satisfied with the result, saying the play's central theme of gossip was unaffected by the changes. In 1961, the play was adapted, with its lesbian theme intact, for the film The Children's Hour, also directed by Wyler and starring Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, and James Garner. In the UK, New Zealand and Australia it was released under the title The Loudest Whisper. In 1971, the play was produced for the radio by the BBC in its Saturday Night Theatre series starring Jill Bennett and Prunella Scales. In 1994, the play was again produced for the radio by the BBC in its Monday Play series, starring Clare Holman, Buffy Davis, Miriam Margolyes and Margaret Robertson. In October 2021, it was reported that Anonymous Content would be adapting the play into a television series. Casting References Notes Further reading External links Full Text of The Children's Hour by Hellman – from Plays of the Year: Volume 5 (1952) LGBT-related plays LGBT-related controversies in plays Plays by Lillian Hellman 1934 plays Modernist theatre Boarding school fiction New England in fiction Plays set in the United States American plays adapted into films Homophobia in fiction