F. Scott Fitzgerald Filmography

Occupation:: Screenwriter, Book Author

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Taraji P. Henson, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas

Synopsis: As directed by David Fincher and adapted by scribe Eric Roth (Forrest Gump) from the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story of the same name, the fantasy The Curious Case of Benjamin Button stars Brad Pitt as the title character. Button begins the story as an old man, then begins physically aging in Read More

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The Great Gatsby

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Toby Stephens, Mira Sorvino, Paul Rudd, Martin Donovan, Francie Swift

Synopsis: F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, often regarded as one of the greatest American novels of the 20th century, is brought to the screen in this made-for-TV feature, produced in collaboration with the A&E Cable Network in the United States, and Granada Entertainment in Great Britain. Nick Carraway Read More

2000
Indianske Leto

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: The rivalry between two teen-age cousins provides the framework for this sprightly Czech drama that is based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story Bernice Bobs Her Hair. The tale is set in a Czech village where two adolescent girls are staying with their grandmother. They spend their summer nights Read More

1995
Under the Biltmore Clock

Crew: Short Story Author

1988
Under the Biltmore Clock

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Sean Young, Lenny Von Dohlen, Barnard Hughes

Synopsis: In this light-weight romantic story, based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's Myra Meets His Family and set in the 1920s, a young woman is out for a carefree time until one day she decides she needs to marry, and then her life changes more than she could have imagined. When Myra (Sean Young) picks out a Read More

1985
Tender is the Night

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: First filmed theatrically in 1962, F. Scott Fitzgerald's final novel, Tender Is the Night, was given a lavish (seven million dollars) treatment in this British-Australian-American miniseries version. Set in Europe's waning days of the Roaring Twenties, the plot focused upon the tempestuous Read More

1985
Bernice Bobs Her Hair

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Shelley Duvall, Henry Fonda, Polly Holliday, Gary Springer, Bud Cort, Lane Binkley, Veronica Cartwright, Dennis Christopher, Patrick Reynolds

Synopsis: Many observers consider the 60-minute Bernice Bobs Her Hair to be the best-ever filmed adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Bernice (Shelley Duvall), a shy retiring girl of the Roaring 20s, yearns to be popular. On the advice of her flapper cousin Marjorie (Veronica Cartwright), Bernice cuts her Read More

1976
The Last Tycoon

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jeanne Moreau, Jack Nicholson

Synopsis: Elia Kazan directed this curiously constipated film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished final novel, about Monroe Starr, a brilliant and efficient studio executive (based upon Fitzgerald's experiences with MGM wunderkind Irving Thalberg). Robert De Niro plays Monroe Starr in a cool and Read More

1976
F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: In a strange blending of reality and fantasy, this is the story of F. Scott Fitzgerald's use of the creative process to try to work out and ameliorize his own marital difficulties, writing the fictional "The Last of the Belles" while trying to work out his own relationship with Zelda during WWI. Read More

1974
The Great Gatsby

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, Scott Wilson, Sam Waterston

Synopsis: This third film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic 1925 novel was one of the most hyped movies of the summer of 1974. Robert Redford stars as self-made millionaire Jay Gatsby, who uses his vast (and implicitly ill-gotten) fortune to buy his way into Long Island society. Most of all, Gatsby Read More

1974
Tender Is the Night

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Jennifer Jones, Jason Robards, Jr., Joan Fontaine, Tom Ewell, Cesare Danova

Synopsis: David O. Selznick had intended to film an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night as a vehicle for his wife Jennifer Jones. But financial difficulties compelled Selznick to sell the property (including Ms. Jones' services) to 20th Century-Fox. Jones stars as a wealthy but disturbed Read More

1961
Playhouse 90: Winter Dreams

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Dana Wynter, John Cassavetes, Mildred Dunnock, Joseph Sweeney, Darryl Hickman

Synopsis: F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "Winter Dreams" is brought to life in this 1957 Playhouse 90 presentation. John Cassavetes stars as Dexter Green, who has spent most of his life trying to fulfill the ambitions and hopes of his socially ambitious mother and his conservative father. Thanks to his Read More

1957
Front Row Center: Tender is the Night

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: From the 1950s "Front Row Center" series, a made-for-television adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel about the unhappy marriage between a psychiatrist and one of his patients. ~ Nicole Gagne, All Movie Guide Read More

1955
The Last Time I Saw Paris

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon, Donna Reed, Eva Gabor

Synopsis: Loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's Paradise Revisited, MGM's The Last Time I Saw Paris is a star-studded soap opera, luxuriously lensed by director Richard Brooks. In his last film as an MGM contractee, Van Johnson plays reporter Charles Wills, who while covering the VE Day celebrations in Read More

1954
The Great Gatsby

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Alan Ladd, Betty Field, MacDonald Carey, Ruth Hussey, Barry Sullivan

Synopsis: This second film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's definitive jazz-age novel The Great Gatsby stars Alan Ladd in the title role. Jay Gatsby, formerly Jake Gatz, is a successful bootlegger with aspirations of being accepted in the highest social circles of Long Island. Once he's done this, Gatsby Read More

1949
Three Comrades

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Taylor, Margaret Sullavan, Franchot Tone, Robert Young, Guy Kibbee, Lionel Atwill

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades represented one of the few successful screenwriting efforts of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in Germany in the years just following World War I, the film stars Robert Taylor, Franchot Tone and Robert Young as three battle-weary, thoroughly Read More

1938
Grit

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Glenn Hunter, Helenka Adamowska, Roland Young, Osgood Perkins, Townsend Martin

Synopsis: F. Scott Fitzgerald was commissioned to write the story to this low budget crime drama for actor Glenn Hughes. In spite of this, the finished film was poor and did nothing for anyone's career -- except Hughes' co-star, a fresh young thing named Clara Bow. As she did in nearly all her early motion Read More

1924
The Beautiful and Damned

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Marie Prevost, Kenneth Harlan, Harry Myers, Tully Marshall

Synopsis: The Beautiful and Damned is one of the earliest cinemazations of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. Kenneth Harlan and Marie Prevost play a jazz-age married couple who go through money like water. The least responsible of the two is Prevost, but Harlan isn't far behind. Things are okay so long as Harlan Read More

1922
The Off-Shore Pirate

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Viola Dana, Jack Mulhall, Edward Jobson, Edward Cecil

Synopsis: This wasn't the first time that Viola Dana starred in a picture based on an F. Scott Fitzgerald short story. A Chorus Girl's Romance had been a popular hit, but the plot to this one was a bit light and it needed a lot of filler to make it feature-length. Ardita Farnam (Dana) is a willful society Read More

1921