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I used to drive by Zelda Sayre’s house every time I visited Montgomery. There was also a Sayre street tho I think it was named for her Father who was Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court.
Good news for Great Gatsby folks. They are making another one and will be out in I think December. I never saw the movie but I know many fans on here. I am glad to give the good news to you good folks.
I always wanted to see the 1926 version. It would have been cool to see a Gatsby movie actually made in the Gatsby era. Don’t know if any copies actually survived.
The first film version of “The Great Gatsby” came out in 1926 and is lost—the fate of so many movies made before the middle of the twentieth century, when film, made with nitrate compounds, would decompose while in storage if one wasn’t careful.
I heartily concur with that, although I will say Sam Waterson's Nick Carraway was one of the best performances of his career, and better than Macdonald Carey's in the older film.
The 1974 version is one of my favorite movies. I need to see if it’s on Netflix.
Many of the extras were Navy people from the Naval War College and the air base in North Kingstown, as well as ships in port. My parents always enjoyed spotting their friends in the crowd scenes!
(And ... it’s on Netflix streaming. There’s also a 2000 version with Mira Sorvino as Daisy, which comments on Netflix say was a Fail.)
Looks like the 1949 version is on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2jh6XkjrHU
I haven’t checked, so I’m not sure all the parts are there—but they probably are.
He must have thought that his dreams could hardly escape him when he saw the light at the end of Daisy’s dock - he did not know that they were already behind him......