Editing Clarence Darrow (section)

===Plays===
* ''Compulsion'', 1957 play based on [[Meyer Levin]]'s [[Compulsion (Levin novel)|novel of the same name]]. The basis for the [[Compulsion (1959 film)|1959 film adaptation]], with [[Dean Stockwell]] reprising his role from the Broadway production opposite [[Bradford Dillman]] and [[Orson Welles]].
* ''[[Clarence Darrow (film)|Darrow]]'', a full-length one-man play created after his death, featuring Darrow's reminiscences about his career. Originated by [[Henry Fonda]], many actors (including [[Leslie Nielsen]] and [[David Canary]]) have since taken on the role of Darrow in this play, which was adapted as ''Darrow'', a film starring [[Kevin Spacey]] and released by American Playhouse in 1991.
* ''[[Inherit the Wind (play)|Inherit the Wind]]'', a play (later adapted to the screen) that is a broadly fictionalized account of the Scopes Trial. Though the authors noted that the 1925 trial was "clearly the genesis" of their play, they insisted the characters had a "life and language of their own." They also mention that the issues raised in the play "have acquired new dimension and meaning", a possible reference to the political controversies of the 1950s. Still, they finished their foreword by inviting a more universal reading of the play: "It might have been yesterday. It could be tomorrow."<ref>Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. ''Inherit the Wind''. Bantam, 1955.</ref> [[Spencer Tracy]] played the Darrow character ("Henry Drummond") in the film, and Jason Robards played him in a TV remake in 1988.
* ''Malice Aforethought: The Sweet Trials'' is a play written by Arthur Beer, based on the trials of [[Ossian Sweet|Ossian]] and Henry Sweet, and derived from [[Kevin Boyle (historian)|Kevin Boyle]]'s ''[[Arc of Justice]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sweettrials.udmercy.edu/sweet_trial_play.htm |title=Sweet Trials Project |publisher=[[University of Detroit Mercy]] |access-date=October 20, 2013}}</ref>
* ''My Name is Ossian Sweet'', a docudrama written by Gordon C. Bennett, based on the Sweet trials in which the black family was defended by Darrow against a charge of murder in Detroit 1925. Published (2011) at HeartlandPlays.com.
* ''Clarence Darrow'' by David W. Rintels, where Kevin Spacey again portrayed Darrow in this one-man performance in 2014<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.oldvictheatre.com/whats-on/2014/clarence-darrow/ | title= ''Clarence Darrow'' (2014)| website= OldVicTheatre.com}}</ref> and 2015.<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.oldvictheatre.com/whats-on/2015/clarence-darrow-2/ | title= ''Clarence Darrow'' (2015)| website= OldVicTheatre.com | quote= Kevin Spacey returns to The Old Vic stage in Clarence Darrow for a limited run of 6 weeks only following his sell-out and critically acclaimed run of 22 performances in 2014.}}</ref>
* ''Clarence Darrow Tonight!'' written and performed by [[Laurence Luckinbill]], debuted at The Ensemble Theater in NYC and performed throughout the country, including at President [[Bill Clinton]]'s second inaugural in 1996. Winner of the 1996 [[Silver Gavel Award]] for Theater, given by the [[American Bar Association]].
* During an interrogation at the police station in the 1949 movie ''[[Holiday Affair]]'', the character Connie Ennis (Janet Leigh) said to the lieutenant (Harry Morgan), "Your honor, I think I can clear this all up." The lieutenant said, "Go ahead, if Clarence Darrow here doesn't have any objections." He was referring to her fiancé in the movie Carl Davis, played by [[Wendell Corey]].