After continuing to tour Australia through 1958, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll was adapted by Leslie Norman for Hill-Hecht-Lancaster Productions – whose first film had been Marty with Ernest Borgnine – for United Artists in 1959.
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The female leads were played by Anne Baxter and Angela Lansbury, though the film featured many Australian actors.
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In 1972, he visited Australia for the Melbourne Theatre Company’s production of The Man Who Shot the Albatross, a version of the Governor Bligh story; and then in 1975 returned to settle in Australia as associate director of the Melbourne Theatre Company, with an agreement to complete a trilogy based on Summer of the Seventeenth Doll.