Question: Quality Street, a 1937 period film made by RKO Radio Pictures, was based on the 1901 play of the same name by what Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan?
Context: Quality Street is a 1927 MGM silent film based on the 1901 play by James M. Barrie which starred Barrie favorite Maude Adams.  The film starred Marion Davies and Conrad Nagel and was directed by Sidney Franklin.  Prints of this film are preserved at the Library of Congress and in the Turner Archive. Peter Pan is a fictional character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie.  A free spirited and mischievous young boy who can fly and never grows up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood having adventures on the mythical island of Neverland as the leader of the Lost Boys, interacting with fairies, pirates, mermaids, Native Americans, and occasionally ordinary children from the world outside Neverland. Street Girl is a 1929 pre-Code musical film directed by Wesley Ruggles and starring Betty Compson, John Harron and Jack Oakie.  It was adapted by Jane Murfin from "The Viennese Charmer", a short story by William Carey Wonderly.  While it was the first film made by RKO Radio Pictures, its opening was delayed until after "Syncopation", making it RKO's second release.  It was very successful at the box office, accounting for almost half of RKO's profits for the entire year. RKO (Radio-Keith-Orpheum) Pictures (also known as RKO Productions, Radio Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures, RKO Teleradio Pictures and, for a short time, RKO Pathé) is an American film production and distribution company.  The original company produced films from 1929, the year after its inception, through its dissolution in 1959.  RKO is an acronym for "Radio-Keith-Orpheum", created when RCA orchestrated a merge between Film Booking Offices of America (FBO) and Keith-Albee-Orpheum (KAO), and was officially announced on October 23, 1928.  Within two years, the company added Pathé Exchange to the organization, which included the new company's studios in Culver City, its film laboratories in New Jersey, Pathé News, and the company's distribution networks in Europe and the United States. RKO General, Inc. was the main holding company through 1991 for the noncore businesses of the General Tire and Rubber Company and, after General Tire's reorganization in the 1980s, GenCorp.  The business was based around the consolidation of its parent company's broadcasting interests, dating to 1943, and the RKO Pictures movie studio General Tire purchased in 1955.  The holding company acquired the name of RKO General in 1959 after General Tire dissolved the film studio.  The original RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. corporation name was then changed to the present day RKO General, Inc.  Current RKO Radio Pictures copyrights are held by this corporate name.  Headquartered in New York City, the company operated six television stations and more than a dozen major radio stations around North America between 1959 and 1991. Peter Pan is a 1953 American animated adventure film produced by Walt Disney and based on the play "Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up" by J. M. Barrie.  It is the 14th Disney animated feature film and was originally released on February 5, 1953, by RKO Radio Pictures.  "Peter Pan" is the final Disney animated feature released through RKO before Walt Disney's founding of his own distribution company, Buena Vista Distribution, later in 1953 after the film was released.  "Peter Pan" is also the final Disney film in which all nine members of Disney's Nine Old Men worked together as directing animators.  It is also the second Disney animated film starring Kathryn Beaumont, Heather Angel, and Bill Thompson after their roles in the animated feature "Alice in Wonderland". Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} ( ; 9 May 1860 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan.  He was born and educated in Scotland but moved to London, where he wrote a number of successful novels and plays.  There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (included in "The Little White Bird"), then to write "Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up", a "fairy play" about an ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland. RKO Radio Pictures: A Titan Is Born is a 2012 non-fiction book about RKO Radio Pictures and written by Richard B Jewell. Quality Street is a 1937 period film made by RKO Radio Pictures.  It was directed by George Stevens and produced by Pandro S. Berman.  Set in 19th-century England, the film stars Katharine Hepburn and Franchot Tone.  Joan Fontaine makes one of her early (uncredited) film appearances.  The screenplay was by Allan Scott, Mortimer Offner and Jack Townley, based on the 1901 play of the same name by J. M. Barrie. This is a list of films released theatrically under the Walt Disney Pictures banner (known as that since 1983, with "Never Cry Wolf" as its first release) and films released before that under the former name of the parent company, Walt Disney Productions (1929–1983).  Most films listed here were distributed in the United States by the company's distribution division, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (formerly known as Buena Vista Distribution Company [1953–1987] and Buena Vista Pictures Distribution [1987–2007]).  The Disney features produced before "Peter Pan" (1953) were originally distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, and are now distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.
Answer: J. M. Barrie