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===Films, plays and television=== [[File:The Woman the Germans Shot.jpg|thumb|Advertisement for ''The Woman the Germans Shot'']] * The first film made of Cavell's life story was the 1916 Australian silent film ''[[The Martyrdom of Nurse Cavell]]'' soon followed by ''[[Nurse Cavell]]'' later the same year. * In 1918 [[John G. Adolfi]] directed ''[[The Woman the Germans Shot]]'', starring [[Julia Arthur]] as Cavell * In 1925 [[Eva Elwes]] wrote a play ''Edith Cavell, Nurse and Martyr''. It was refused a licence by the Lord Chamberlain after consultation with Cavell's sisters. After changes to the title and characters the play was granted a licence as ''The Price She Paid'' and performed in 1927.{{sfn|Aldgate|Robertson|2005|pp=42β43}} * [[Herbert Wilcox]] made a 1928 silent film called ''[[Dawn (1928 film)|Dawn]]'' with [[Sybil Thorndike]]. He remade it as ''[[Nurse Edith Cavell]]'' (1939) starring [[Anna Neagle]] and [[George Sanders]]. * ''Nurse Cavell'', a play in three acts, by [[C. S. Forester]] with [[C. E. Bechhofer Roberts]]{{sfn|Roberts and Forester|1933}} opened at the Vaudeville Theatre in London on 7 March 1934, where it ran for 34 performances.<ref name=":0">{{cite book|last=Wearing|first=J. P.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22112586|title=The London stage, 1930-1939 : a calendar of plays and players|date=1990|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=0-8108-2349-7|location=Metuchen, N.J.|oclc=22112586}}</ref> The play had first been performed at the [[Q Theatre]] in the suburbs.<ref name=":0" /> * In the second episode of the 1980 television series ''[[To Serve Them All My Days (TV series)|To Serve Them All My Days]]'', Cavell is mentioned in a speech to the school's [[Officers' Training Corps]]. * In ''[[Les plus grands Belges]]'' ("The Greatest Belgians"), a 2005 television show on the Belgian French-speaking public channel RTBF, the audience voted Cavell the 48th-greatest Belgian. * In the final episode of the 2014 BBC drama series ''[[The Crimson Field]]'', Cavell is mentioned as having been executed, during the interrogation of Sister Joan Livesey. * ''Patriot'', a play by Angela Moffat, premiered at the [[Grand Theatre Arts Wing, Swansea]] in October 2014 with Claire Novelli appearing as Cavell. It was produced by Fluellen Theatre Company.
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