A film adaptation in 1933 won three Academy Awards, including "Best Picture".Kinn and Piazza, p. 31 C. A. Lejeune called it "the best British film that has ever been made", and expressed exasperation that British studios had not taken the play up instead of allowing it to go to Hollywood.Lejeune, C. A. "The Pictures", The Observer, 19 February 1933 Cavalcade was adapted for BBC radio by Val Gielgud and Felix Felton and broadcast three times in 1936.Noel Coward's "Cavalcade", The Manchester Guardian, 27 June 1936; and "Revival of Noel Coward's 'Cavalcade'", The Manchester Guardian, 8 October 1936, p. 2 A 1970s television series, Upstairs, Downstairs, was to some extent based on the play.Morley (1999), p. xii
