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The Great Gatsby is a american film of genre Drama directed by Elliott Nugent released in USA on 13 july 1949 with Alan Ladd
The Great Gatsby (1949)
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Add to a movie listThe 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.
The film stars Alan Ladd, Betty Field, Macdonald Carey, Ruth Hussey, and Barry Sullivan and features Shelley Winters and Howard Da Silva, the latter of whom would later appear in the 1974 version.
Synopsis
Les relations d'un couple et d'un mystérieux mécène à Long Island....Actors
Alan Ladd
(Jay Gatsby)
Betty Field
(Daisy Buchanan)
Macdonald Carey
(Nicholas 'Nick' Carraway)
Ruth Hussey
(Jordan Baker)
Barry Sullivan
(Tom Buchanaan)
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