Editing Miss Lulu Bett (novel) (section)

==Adaptations==
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Gale first adapted the novel for a play that opened on Broadway on December 27, 1920, starring [[Carroll McComas]].

Two endings were written for the play, the original as seen in December 1920 (and the ending that won Gale the Pulitzer Prize from Drama; the first woman ever to do so) has Lulu starting a life on her own and undertaking adventures of her own as we hear in her final lines, "Good-by. Good-by, all of you.  I'm going I don't know where-to work at I don't know what.  But I'm going from choice!"

The revised ending is more typical and would have been a bit more commercially acceptable and far less challenging to the audiences of the day.  In this ending, Ninian appears just as Lulu decides to go off on her own life to work and live elsewhere. He asks her forgiveness and she agrees saying "I forgave you in Savannah, Georgia."

In 1921 the work was adapted for a [[Miss Lulu Bett (film)|silent film]] of the same name by [[Clara Beranger]], directed by [[William C. deMille]], starring [[Lois Wilson (actress)|Lois Wilson]], [[Milton Sills]], [[Theodore Roberts]], [[Helen Ferguson]], [[Mabel Van Buren]], [[Ethel Wales]] and [[May Giraci]].