Inherit the Wind
For eight years Jones balanced her career between Broadway and regional projects. In Dallas, she staged the world premiere of Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee's "Inherit the Wind", a fictionalized retelling of the Scopes monkey trial, after it had been rejected by several Broadway producers. The play received rave reviews and subsequently opened on Broadway in April 1955, where it became a major hit. "Inherit the Wind" become an Oscar-nominated film in 1960 and has been revived as a TV special three times.