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All the books by F. Scott Fitzgerald adapted to cinema and television, ranked
On the day that Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, elderly Daisy Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud the diary of Daisy’s lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin’s diary recounts his entire extraordinary life, the primary unusual aspect of which was his aging backwards.
Monroe Stahr, a charismatic and skilled studio executive, grapples to find his footing in the film industry and the larger world. As he faces a power struggle with his boss and mentor, Pat Brady, his attention is captivated by a young Irish waitress. Her presence might be the catalyst he needs to craft a truly significant film in his pursuit of influence and success.
In December 1929, Nick Carraway, a World War I veteran, is undergoing treatment at a psychiatric hospital. He rents a small groundskeeper’s cottage in the North Shore village of West Egg, next to the mansion of Gatsby, a mysterious business magnate who often hosts extravagant parties.
A biography series based on the life of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, the brilliant, beautiful and talented Southern Belle who becomes the original flapper and icon of the wild, flamboyant Jazz Age in the 20s. Z starts before she meets the unpublished writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, and moves through their passionate, turbulent love affair and their marriage-made in heaven, lived out in hell as the celebrity couple of their time.
In New York City in 1929, Maxwell Perkins, a successful Scribner’s editor and discoverer of talented authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, lives in a cottage just outside the city with his wife and five daughters. One day, in his office, he reads the drafts of O Lost, a novel by Thomas Wolfe. Struck by the content, Perkins decides to publish it and begins to collaborate with the author.
The film follows the story of Jay Gatsby, a wealthy and mysterious man living in Long Island, New York, during the 1920s. Gatsby is deeply in love with Daisy Buchanan, a woman he met and fell in love with years ago, but who is now married to Tom Buchanan, a wealthy man who is having an affair.
Set in Hollywood during the 1930s, the movie revolves around the life of Monroe Stahr, a talented and influential film producer loosely based on the legendary producer Irving Thalberg. Stahr faces various challenges, including studio politics, love affairs, and the struggles of the Great Depression, all while trying to create successful movies.
Taking place during the tumultuous Jazz Age of the 1920s, the story follows the journey of Jay Gatsby, a young man from humble beginnings whose love for the wealthy and glamorous Daisy Buchanan propels him to success and, eventually, his tragic downfall in the high society he so desperately seeks to impress.