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F. Scott Fitzgerald (novel)
Owen Davis (play) ...
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Release Date:
13 July 1949 (USA) more
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A Great Cast... A Great Novel... A Great Motion Picture
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In this "adaptation" of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, a Jazz Age bootlegger learns the hard way about the wages of sin. full summary | add synopsis
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Ladd Understood.... more (8 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Alan Ladd | ... | Jay Gatsby |
 | Betty Field | ... | Daisy Buchanan |
| Macdonald Carey | ... | Nicholas 'Nick' Carraway |
| Ruth Hussey | ... | Jordan Baker |
| Barry Sullivan | ... | Tom Buchanaan |
| Howard Da Silva | ... | Wilson |
 | Shelley Winters | ... | Myrtle Wilson |
| Henry Hull | ... | Dan Cody |
 | Ed Begley | ... | Myron Lupus |
| Elisha Cook Jr. | ... | Klipspringer |
| Nicholas Joy | ... | Drunken Guest at Party |
| Walter Greaza | ... | Kinsella |
| Tito Vuolo | ... | Mavromichaelis |
| Ray Walker | ... | Real Estate Man |
| Diane Nance | ... | Pamela |
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91 min
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Tyrone Power was set to star with Gene Tierney. This would have been the fourth time they appeared on screen. When Tierney was dropped from production Power dropped out. more
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Featured in Alan Ladd: The True Quiet Man (1999) (TV) more
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ALAN LADD was the perfect actor for THE GREAT GATSBY, and his performance in this film captures F. Scott Fitzgerald's tragic hero with every nuance, every movement, every hidden torment. Ladd wanted to do this role, although he had his anxieties (as was noted by my friend Geraldine Fitzgerald). Nonetheless, he succeeds splendidly as Gatsby - a definitive characterization that should be seen. Redford had the right stuff, to a large extent, but the Redford-Farrow version is far too overblown with far too many missing, and important, elements in the plot. As for the Ladd version, it is true that Betty Field, a superb actress, was not right for Daisy -- there is far too much intelligence in her interpretation. Nor are Barry Sullivan, Ruth Hussey, and Macdonald Carey altogether satisfactory either. BUT the adaptation is closest to Fitzgerald, and the Ladd, of the later scenes in particular, is a tragic figure - truly reaching the heights of one of America's finest novels. And one that is ageless...