F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles'

1974 television film

F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles'
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Genre	Biography Drama Romance
Based on	The Last of the Belles by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Screenplay by	James Costigan
Directed by	George Schaefer
Starring	Susan Sarandon Blythe Danner Richard Chamberlain
Theme music composer	Don Sebesky
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producer	Herbert Brodkin
Producers	Robert Berger William C. Gerrity (associate producer)
Production location	Savannah, Georgia
Cinematography	Edward R. Brown
Editor	Sidney Katz
Camera setup	Panavision Cameras and Lenses
Running time	98 minutes
Production company	Titus Productions
Original release
Network	ABC
Release	January 7, 1974 (1974-01-07)

F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles' is a 1974 American made-for-television biographical romance drama film directed by George Schaefer and starring Susan Sarandon, Blythe Danner and Richard Chamberlain. The film, which is known as The Last of the Belles in Australia, was written by James Costigan based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1935 short story "The Last of the Belles".

Cast

Richard Chamberlain as F. Scott Fitzgerald
Blythe Danner as Zelda Fitzgerald
Susan Sarandon as Ailie Calhoun
David Huffman as Andy McKenna
Ernest Thompson as Earl Shoen
Richard Hatch as Bill Knowles
James Naughton as Captain John Haines
Albert Stratton as John Biggs
Alex Sheafe as Philippe
Sasha von Scherler as Jeanette
Thomas A. Stewart as Horace Canby
Norman Barrs as Waiter
Earl Sydnor as Oliver
Brooke Adams as Kitty Preston
Cynthia Woll as Mary Bly Harwood
Tom Fitzsimmons as Don Cameron

External links

F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles' at IMDb
F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles' at AllMovie
F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles' is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive

Films directed by George Schaefer

King Richard II (1954)
Macbeth (1954)
Cradle Song (1956)
Little Moon of Alban (1958)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1959)
Berkeley Square (1959)
A Doll's House (1959)
Macbeth (1960)
The Tempest (1960)
Cradle Song (1960)
Give Us Barabbas! (1961)
Time Remembered (1961)
Victoria Regina (1961)
Arsenic & Old Lace (1962)
The Magnificent Yankee (1965)
Inherit the Wind (1965)
Barefoot in Athens (1966)
Saint Joan (1967)
The Admirable Crichton (1968)
Elizabeth the Queen (1968)
Pendulum (1969)
The File on Devlin (1969)
Generation (1969)
Doctors' Wives (1971)
F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles' (1974)
Once Upon a Scoundrel (1974)
Amelia Earhart (1976)
An Enemy of the People (1978)
First, You Cry (1978)
Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure (1979)
The Bunker (1981)
The People vs. Jean Harris (1981)
A Piano for Mrs. Cimino (1982)
Right of Way (1983)
Stone Pillow (1985)
Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry (1986)
Laura Lansing Slept Here (1988)
The Man Upstairs (1992)
Harvey (1996)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Bibliography

Novels

This Side of Paradise (1920)
The Beautiful and Damned (1922)
The Great Gatsby (1925)
Tender Is the Night (1934)
The Last Tycoon (1941, unfinished)

Short story
collections

Flappers and Philosophers (1920)	"The Offshore Pirate" "The Ice Palace" "Head and Shoulders" "The Cut-Glass Bowl" "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" "Benediction"
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)	"May Day" The Diamond as Big as the Ritz "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
All the Sad Young Men (1926)	"The Rich Boy" "Winter Dreams" "The Baby Party" "Absolution" "The Adjuster"
Taps at Reveille (1935)	"The Freshest Boy" "First Blood" "Crazy Sunday" "Babylon Revisited"
Posthumous works	Babylon Revisited and Other Stories (1960) The Basil and Josephine Stories (1962) The Pat Hobby Stories (1973) The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1989)