Jupiter Laughs

Jupiter Laughs is A. J. Cronin's 1940 play in three acts about a doctor and his love interest, who hopes to become a medical missionary. The play was first staged in Glasgow at the King's Theatre and starred Henry Longhurst, Catherine Lacey and James Mason. In 1940, it opened on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre and starred Alexander Knox and Jessica Tandy. Film adaptations include Shining Victory, with James Stephenson and Geraldine Fitzgerald, and Ich suche Dich ("I Seek You") with O.W. Fischer and Anouk Aimée.

Works by A. J. Cronin
Novels
  • Hatter's Castle
  • Three Loves
  • Grand Canary
  • The Stars Look Down
  • The Citadel
  • The Keys of the Kingdom
  • The Green Years
  • Shannon's Way
  • The Spanish Gardener
  • Beyond This Place
  • A Thing of Beauty/Crusader's Tomb
  • The Northern Light
  • The Native Doctor/An Apple in Eden
  • The Judas Tree
  • A Song of Sixpence
  • A Pocketful of Rye
  • The Minstrel Boy/Desmonde
  • Lady with Carnations
  • Gracie Lindsay
Selected short stories
& story collections
  • Kaleidoscope in "K"
  • Country Doctor
  • Vigil in the Night
  • The Valorous Years
  • Adventures of a Black Bag
  • The Innkeeper's Wife
  • Further Adventures of a Black Bag
  • Doctor Finlay of Tannochbrae
Play
  • Jupiter Laughs
Autobiography
  • Adventures in Two Worlds
UK/US film adaptations
  • Once to Every Woman
  • Grand Canary
  • The Citadel
  • Vigil in the Night
  • The Stars Look Down
  • Shining Victory
  • Hatter's Castle
  • The Keys of the Kingdom
  • The Green Years
  • The Spanish Gardener
  • Web of Evidence
Television adaptations
  • Escape From Fear
  • Beyond This Place
  • Nicholas
  • The Citadel (1960 American)
  • The Citadel (1960 British)
  • Dr. Finlay's Casebook
  • The Ordeal of Dr. Shannon
  • Memorandum van een dokter
  • La Cittadella (1964)
  • Novi asistent
  • O Jardineiro Espanhol
  • E le stelle stanno a guardare
  • The Stars Look Down
  • Les Années d'illusion
  • The Citadel (1983)
  • Doctor Finlay
  • La Cittadella (2003)

Famous quotes containing the words jupiter and/or laughs:

    “Few and signally blessed are those whom Jupiter has destined to be cabbage-planters. For they’ve always one foot on the ground and the other not far from it. Anyone is welcome to argue about felicity and supreme happiness. But the man who plants cabbages I now positively declare to be the happiest of mortals.”
    —François Rabelais (c. 1494–1553)

    “What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!—And he who laughs best today will also laugh last.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)