In 1955, an hour long adaptation was broadcast live by CBS on the General Electric sponsored show "Front Row Center", with Mercedes McCambridge as Nicole Diver.[67] Dick Diver was played by James Daly. The telefilm was written by Whitfield Cook and directed and produced by McCambridge’s then-husband, Fletcher Markle. It featured original music by eminent composer David Raksin. New York Times reviewer John P. Shanley panned it as “an inept conception” and “an unforgivable treatment of a gifted author’s work.”[68]
In 1962, a film adaptation was released with Jason Robards as Dick Diver and Jennifer Jones as Nicole Diver.[69] The song "Tender Is the Night" from the movie soundtrack was nominated for the 1962 Academy Awards for Best Song.
Two decades later, in 1985, a television mini-series of the book was co-produced by the BBC, 20th Century Fox Television, and Showtime Entertainment.[70] The mini-series featured Peter Strauss as Dick Diver, Mary Steenburgen as Nicole Diver, and Sean Young as Rosemary Hoyt.[70]
In 1995, a stage adaptation by Simon Levy, with permission of the Fitzgerald Estate, was produced at The Fountain Theatre, Los Angeles.[71] It won the PEN Literary Award in Drama and several other awards.
Boris Eifman's 2015 ballet Up and Down is based loosely on the novel.[72]
