The original Broadway production starred Katharine Cornell as Ellen Olenska, and Franchot Tone as Newland Archer.
According to a contemporary news item in Film Daily, Katharine Hepburn was considered for the role of Ellen.
Remade in 1993 (The Age of Innocence (1993)) with Michelle Pfeiffer as Ellen Olenska, Daniel Day-Lewis as Newland Archer, and Winona Ryder as May Welland.
The original play based on the novel by Edith Wharton and written by Margaret Ayer Barnes opened on Broadway in New York on 27 November 1928 at the Empire Theatre, 1430 Broadway and ran for 207 performances until May 1928.