THE SHORT STORY “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” from Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)

THE MOVIE (2008)
Directed by David Fincher
Starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, and Julia Ormond

THE MOVIE PLOT (Drama/Comedy/Romance)
A dying woman tells her granddaughter the story of the unusual life of a man who is born in his 80s and ages backwards.

THE BOOK The Great Gatsby (1925)

THE MOVIE for TV (2000)

Directed by Robert Markowitz
Starring Mira Sorvino, Toby Stephens, Paul Rudd, Martin Donovan, and Francie Swift

THE MOVIE (1974)
Directed by Jack Clayton
Starring Mia Farrow, Robert Redford, Bruce Dern, Sam Waterston, and Lois Chiles

THE MOVIE (1949)
Directed by Elliott Nugent
Starring Betty Field, Alan Ladd, MacDonald Carey, Barry Sullivan, and Ruth Hussey

THE MOVIE (1926)
Directed by Herbert Brenon
Starring Lois Wilson, Warner Baxter, Neil Hamilton, Hale Hamilton, and Carmelita Geraghty

THE MOVIE PLOT (Drama)
A young man from the Midwest now living on Long Island is drawn into the Jazz-Age society circle of his nouveau riche neighbor — an upwardly mobile gangster — and becomes witness to obsession and tragedy.

Editor’s note: Other movies based on novels written by F. Scott Fitzgerald ’17 are The Beautiful and the Damned (2008, 1922), Tender is the Night (1985 TV mini series, 1962), and The Last Tycoon (1976).

1917 Nassau Herald

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