“Alice at the Palace” (1982): Meryl Streep must be the most famous and perhaps only Oscar-winning actress ever to play Alice.“Alice Through the Looking Glass” (1998): This TV movie is notable for starring Kate Beckinsale at age 25, well before she became a warrior woman dispensing with vampires and werewolves in the “Underworld” series.She then took a five-year break for school before returning to work in “Veronica Mars” and “Napoleon Dynamite.” “Alice in Wonderland” (1999): Tina Majorino, a successful child actress, was 13 when she was tapped to play Alice in this TV telling.“Alice in Wonderland” (2010): Alice Kingsleigh is 19, and as played by Mia Wasikowska, a resilient heroine who fights to restore the White Queen to power.Since its 1865 publication in England, Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” has been an inexhaustible source for every imaginable type of adaptation.Puppets, animation and special effects have figured in telling the story of English Alice, whose dreamlike fall down a rabbit hole into a topsy-turvy world continues to haunt, inspire and charm.With Disney’s Friday opening of “Alice Through the Looking Glass,” a sequel to its 2010 hit, take a look back:
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