Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story

[Available on various VOD platforms and played April 9 as part of AARP's Movies for Grownups.] Keir Dulles narrates Robert Steven Williams and Richard Webb's fascinating, educational, insightful, well-written, thought-provoking, 70-minute, 2020 documentary that explores the time when F. Scott Fitzgerald and his beloved, 19-year-old wife Zelda lived in Westport, Conn., during the summer of 1920 and how it may have influenced his writing of the classic novel The Great Gatsby and consists of archival film clips and photographs; movie snippets; excerpts from diaries, letters, books, and articles; and commentary by actor Sam Waterston, publisher Charles Scribner III, writer Barbara Probst Solomon, Great Neck Historical Society Director Alice Kasten, relative Margaret Lebdis, F. Scott and Zelda Museum Executive Director Willie Thompson, assistant professor Ashley Lawson, granddaughter Bobbie Lanahan, Westport resident Lou Nebel, lawyer Dennis Orr, and professors Maureen Corrigan, James West, Steven Goldleaf, Walter Raubicheck, Hurst Kruse, Ruth Prizogy, and Kirk Curnutt.
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