movies adapted from plays

can you name these play adaptations based on information about the movies and the underlying plays?

this quiz is about the movie adaptations; where the movie's title differs from the play's, enter the movie's

for purposes of this quiz, musicals are included as plays

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year	starring	title	play year	author/creator
1957	Henry Fonda	12 Angry Men	1954	Reginald Rose
1948	Laurence Olivier	Hamlet	~1600	William Shakespeare
1951	Vivien Leigh	A Streetcar Named Desire	1947	Tennessee Williams
1965	Julie Andrews	The Sound of Music	1959	Rodgers and Hammerstein
1984	F. Murray Abraham	Amadeus	1830	Alexander Pushkin
1966	Elizabeth Taylor	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	1962	Edward Albee
2016	Denzel Washington	Fences	1985	August Wilson
1958	Paul Newman	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	1955	Tennessee Williams
1989	Kenneth Branagh	Henry V	1599	William Shakespeare
1992	Tom Cruise	A Few Good Men	1989	Aaron Sorkin
2002	Reese Witherspoon	The Importance of Being Earnest	1895	Oscar Wilde
1961	Natalie Wood	West Side Story	1957	Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Laurents
1966	Paul Scofield	A Man for All Seasons	1960	Robert Bolt
1972	Liza Minnelli	Cabaret	1966	John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Joe Masteroff
1960	Spencer Tracy	Inherit the Wind	1955	Jerome Lawrence, Robert Edwin Lee

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