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Saturday, December 13, 2014

"A Luckless Santa Claus" (short Christmas story by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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Christmas time at the Fitzgeralds’ in Paris (1925): "Nanny kept busily admonishing us about the French customs: how they did not give...
Thursday, December 11, 2014

The 90th Anniversary of ‘The Great Gatsby’

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In a few months, we’ll be celebrating the 90th Anniversary of The Great Gatsby , published for the first time in April 1925, although tec...
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Film Noir Collection, The Last Tycoon: F. Scott Fitzgerald & Irving Thalberg

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"Double Indemnity" comes to us, in this release, as part of a grand set, "Film Noir: 10-Movie Spotlight Collection". T...
Friday, December 05, 2014

F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner: Hollywood & the Deep South

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Few major Hollywood names have failed to make at least one appearance at Musso’s. And we’re not talking just the directors and actors (Cha...
Wednesday, December 03, 2014

Early Vanity Fair, Zelda Fitzgerald: Flapper of a Dangerous Generation

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A collection of a wide range of Vanity Fair articles ranging from 1914 to 1936, when the Great Depression forced the magazine to merge with...
Tuesday, December 02, 2014

The World of Raymond Chandler and F. Scott Ftzgerald's bloody romanticism

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Raymond Chandler not only helped to invent the quintessential private eye of genre fiction, he did as much as anyone to define the movies&...
Friday, November 28, 2014

Loretta Young ('Born to be Bad'), Sheilah Graham, F. Scott Fitzgerald & Zelda: 'Invented Lives'

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"Born to Be Bad" (1934) is an early production from the recently formed 20th Century Pictures that winds up feeling a lot like ...