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FEUD: FITZGERALD VS. HOLLYWOOD
FEUD: FITZGERALD VS. HOLLYWOOD
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Thomas Fahy via Zoom
F. Scott Fitzgerald had a troubled relationship with Hollywood. He and Zelda crafted themselves into celebrities in the early 1920s, and Hollywood took notice. As the couple hobnobbed with stars, producers, and directors, studios toyed with casting them in an adaptation of his first novel, This Side of Paradise. Fitzgerald was offered his first job as a screen writer in 1927, and he would live his final years in Los Angeles, writing screenplays for MGM, working feverishly on his unfinished masterpiece The Last Tycoon, and trying to get control over his alcoholism. Despite Fitzgerald’s disparaging remarks about Hollywood over the years, he approached screenwriting with seriousness, and he hoped to write transformative works for film. He only earned one screen credit, but Hollywood provided the fictional world for The Last Tycoon and his series of comedic stories about washed-out screenwriter Pat Hobby. This course will examine his relationship with Hollywood through some of his efforts as a screenwriter, his short fiction about the film industry (including “Crazy Sundays” and the Pat Hobby stories), and The Last Tycoon. LINK TO NOVEL: The Last Tycoon
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About the lecturer(s)
Thomas Fahy
Lecture Details
Oct 17, 2024
Oct 24, 2024
Oct 31, 2024