The Road to Rome

The Road to Rome is a play by American author Robert Sherwood. The plot revolves around Hannibal's attempt to capture Rome during the Second Punic War. It was Sherwood's first published play.

The play opened on January 31, 1927 at the Playhouse Theatre in New York City starring Jane Cowl and Philip Merivale and was considered a success, running until the next January. It was subsequently revived two months later at the same theater, running from March 21, 1928 until Jun 1929.

In 1930 it was played in Melbourne, Australia, by the Edith Taliaferro company as The Road to Romance.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquired the play in 1933 as a potential starring vehicle for Clark Gable. In 1955, the play was adapted for the screen in musical version by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as Jupiter's Darling.