Laughing Gas (novel) Bannister has organised a car that will bring Joey back to his mother in Ohio, and Reggie readily agrees to accompany him. He also makes up with Ann, and they are going to be married. Laughing Gas (novel) Laughing Gas is a comic novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 25 September 1936 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on 19 November 1936 by Doubleday, Doran, New York. Written in first person narrative, the story is set in Hollywood in the early 1930s (the Depression is mentioned twice) and is, compared to,
Laughing Sinners films ended and he wound up demoted to cowboy B pictures, with his name changed to "Johnny Mack Brown." Crawford and Rambeau, who both play chorus girls in "Laughing Sinners, "would go on to play mother and daughter in the film "Torch Song" in 1953. "Torch Song" is the name of the play on which "Laughing Sinners" is based. Andre Sennwald commented in "The New York Times", "Miss Crawford...has tempered the intense and not a little self-conscious quality of her acting without hurting her vibrant and breath-catching spirit." According to MGM records the film earned $624,000 in the US and