The Great Gatsby (1949 film)

The Great Gatsby is a 1949 American drama film directed by Elliott Nugent, and produced by Richard Maibaum, from a screenplay by Richard Maibaum and Cyril Hume. It is based on the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The music score was by Robert Emmett Dolan and the cinematography by John F. Seitz. The production was designed by Roland Anderson and Hans Dreier and the costumes by Edith Head.

This was the second film adaptation of the novel, after the 1926 silent version now considered a lost film because no prints are known to exist.Producer Richard Maibaum had worked with Alan Ladd on O.S.S. and the two men became friends. Maibaum ........

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