(0)F. Scott Fitzgerald
Series
Criterion collection volume 476
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he is ages backwards, being born an old man. He is diagnosed with several aged diseases at birth and thus...
Series
Publisher
Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Reporter Charles Wills (Johnson) falls in love and marries the gorgeous Helen Elsworth (Taylor). He supports her with a low paying job, devoting his evenings to writing a novel. After numerous rejections, he gives up writing, quits his job and lives off investments. The marriage falters when he enters into self-destructive behavior that is halted by a devastating tragedy.
Publisher
Digiview Productions
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
This highly acclaimed biographical drama blends in glimpses of F. Scott Fitzgerald's real life with his wife Zelda in the early 1920s, and also his days as a soldier, with dramatized scenes from his short story "The Last of the Belles."
Publisher
PC Treasures, Inc
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Father's little dividend: Spencer Tracy is about to become a grandfather. If he thought he wasn't ready for a son-in-law, he really isn't ready for phase two.
The last time I saw Paris: M-G-M threw all their tremendous assets behind this tale of love, romance and jealousy in Post-War France. Shot on location in Paris, Liz sparkles as a free-spirit who falls for Johnson, a reporter she meets on the chaotic night of the Allied liberation. Their marriage...
45) The great Gatsby
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Great Gatsby follows viable writer Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922. Chasing his own American dream, Nick lands next door to Jay Gatsby, and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy, and her husband, Tom Buchanan. Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the rich and their loves and deceits. As he bears witness, he pens a tale of impossible love, incorruptible dreams, and tragedy, and holds...
46) The Great Gatsby
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[1974]
Language
English
Description
Jay Gatsby, the dashing, enigmatic millionaire, is obsessed with the elusive and spoiled Daisy Buchanan.
47) The Great Gatsby
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
In 1920s Long Island, a mysterious American millionaire's efforts to recapture the sweetheart of his youth result in tragedy.
Publisher
Digiview Productions
Pub. Date
[2004?]
Language
English
Description
Set in post World War II. American military reporter Charles Wills (Johnson) falls in love and marries the gorgeous Helen Elsworth (Taylor). He supports her with a low paying job, devoting his evenings to writing a novel. After numerous rejections, he gives up writing, quits his job and lives on investments. The marriage falters when he enters into self-destructive behavior that is halted by a devastating tragedy.
Publisher
Goodtimes Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Royal wedding: a musical set during Princess Elizabeth's wedding to Philip Mountbatten. A brother-sister dance team go to London and get caught up in romance. The last time I saw Paris: A writer recalls his romance with a wealthy American girl in Paris, and how he lost her. In these films, one a musical and one a drama, careers and lack of commitment/philandering cause trouble with romance. In the drama, the result is tragedy. In the musical, everything...
Series
Lapham's Quarterly volume 7, no. 4
Publisher
American Agora Foundation
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Series
Lapham's Quarterly volume 4, no. 1
Publisher
American Agora Foundation
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
