F. Scott Fitzgerald Works for Hollywood studios: Links And Files
by Anton Rudnev

Here you will find some files, links and information on films produced with F. Scott Fitzgerald as a screenwriter.

The order is chronological.

Glimpses of the Moon (1923)

The film is lost.

Studio: Famous Players (Paramount).
F. Scott Fitzgerald's assignment: titles for the silent movie.
Screenplay is based on: Edith Wharton's "The Glimpses of the Moon" novel.
Director: Allan Dwan; Producer: Adolph Zukor, Jesse Lasky.
Starring: Bebe Daniels and Nita Naldi.
Running time: 7 reels.

Red-Headed Woman (1932)

Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's assignment: screnplay (not used, uncredited); this screenplay was later rewritten by Anita Loos.
Screenplay is based on: Katharine Brush's "Red-Headed Woman" novel.
Director: Jack Conway; Producer: Albert Lewin and Irving Thalberg (both uncredited)
Starring: Jean Harlow and Chester Morris.
Running time: 79 minutes.

A Star Is Born (1937)

Studio: Selznick International Pictures.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's assignment: unknown (uncredited), but the copy of F. Scott Fitzgerald's script for this movie is in "The Warner Bros./Turner Entertainment F.Scott Fitzgerald Screenplay Collection".
Screenplay based on: original story by William A. Wellman and Robert Carson, script by Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell.
Director: William A. Wellman; Producer: David O. Selznick.
Starring: Janet Gaynor and Fredric March.
Running time: 111 minutes.

A Yank at Oxford (1938)

Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios, Ltd.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's assignment: three weeks, original treatment for the screenplay, dialogue polish (uncredited).
Screenplay based on: original story by Leon Gordon, Sidney Gilliatt and Michael Hogan (based on an idea by John Monk Saunders); script by Malcolm Stuart Boylan, Walter Ferris, George Oppenheimer.
Director: Jack Conway; Producer: Michael Balcon.
Starring: Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan and Vivien Leigh.
Running time: 102 minutes.

Three Comrades (1938)

Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's assignment: screenplay (credited) in collaboration with Edward E. Paramore Jr., see Fitzgerald's screenplay here.
Screenplay based on: Erich Maria Remarque's "Three Comrades" novel (1937).
Director: Frank Borzage; Producer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
Starring: Robert Taylor and Margaret Sullavan.
Running time: 100 minutes.

Marie Antoinette (1938)

Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's assignment: screenplay (uncredited).
Screenplay based on: Stefan Zweig's "Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman" biography (1932).
Director: W. S. Van Dyke; Producer: Hunt Stromberg.
Starring: Norma Shearer and Tyrone Power.
Running time: 150 minutes.

Winter Carnival (1939)

Studio: Walter Wanger Productions (United Artists).
F. Scott Fitzgerald's assignment: story treatment (uncredited).
Screenplay based on: original story (based on Corey Ford's "Echoes That Old Refrain") was to be developed by Budd Schulberg and Scott Fitzgerald (it was not made); after disastrous trip to Darthmouth, Fitzgerald was fired from the project - later Shulberg desribed this trip in his novel The Disenchanted. Screenplay was credited to Budd Schulberg, Maurice Rapf and Lester Cole.
Director: Charles Reisner; Producer: Walter Wanger.
Starring: Ann Sheridan and Richard Carlson.
Running time: 105 minutes.

Gone With the Wind (1939)

Studio: Selznick International Pictures.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's assignment: two weeks polishing dialogue, also variants of scenes (uncredited); screenplay by Sidney Howard.
Screenplay based on: Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind" novel.
Director: George Cukor, Victor Fleming, Sam Wood; Producer: David O. Selznick.
Starring: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard and Olivia de Havilland.
Running time: 238 minutes (with overture, intermission, entracte and exit music).

Screen Play by Sidney Howard - Final Shooting Script (January 24, 1939).

The Women (1939)

Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's assignment: screenplay (not used, uncredited); Scott's screenplay was rewritten by Anita Loos and Jane Murfin.
Screenplay based on: Clare Boothe Luce's "The Women" play (1936).
Director: George Cukor; Producer: Hunt Stromberg.
Starring: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell.
Running time: 133 minutes.

Honeymoon in Bali (1939)

Alternative Titles: Husbands or Lovers (UK title), My Love for Yours (video title)

Studio: Paramount Pictures.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's assignment: two weeks in March 1939 rewrite of screenplay (not used, uncredited); screenplay later was rewritten by Virginia Van Upp.
Screenplay based on: short stories - "Our Miss Keane" by Grace Sartwell Mason (The Saturday Evening Post of May 24, 1923) and "Free Woman" by Katharine Brush (Redbook magazine of November–December 1936).
Director: Edward H. Griffith; Producer: Jeff Lazarus.
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Madeleine Carroll and Allan Jones.
Running time: 95 minutes.

Everything Happens at Night (1939)

Studio: 20th Century Fox.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's assignment: treatment for scenario ? (not used, uncredited).
Screenplay based on: orignal story, screenplay by Art Arthur and Robert Harari.
Director: Irving Cummings; Producers: Harry Joe Brown (associate), Darryl F. Zanuck (in charge).
Starring: Sonja Henie, Ray Milland and Robert Cummings.
Running time: 78 minutes.

Raffles (1940)

Studio: Samuel Goldwyn Productions (United Artists).
F. Scott Fitzgerald's assignment: one-week dialogue rewiting (uncredited); screenplay by John Van Druten and Sidney Howard.
Screenplay based on: E. W. Hornung's "The Amateur Cracksman" short-story collection (1899). This is a remake of 1930's version.
Director: Sam Wood; Producer: Samuel Goldwyn.
Starring: David Niven and Olivia de Havilland.
Running time: 72 minutes.

Life Begins at Eight-Thirty (1942)

Studio: 20th Century Fox.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's assignment: first screenplay in 1940 (not used); screenplay was rewritten by Nunnally Johnson, film production ran in 1942.
Screenplay based on: Emlyn Williams's "The Light of Heart" play (1940).
Director: Irving Pichel; Producer: Nunnally Johnson.
Starring: Monty Woolley, Ida Lupino and Cornel Wilde.
Running time:85 minutes.

Madame Curie (1943)

Studio: Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's assignment: new treatment of scenario from 1938, Nov 07 till 1939, Jan 03 (not used, uncredited); final script by Paul Osborn, Hans Rameau, Walter Reisch; film production ran in 1943.
Screenplay based on: Eve Curie' "Madame Curie" biography novel (1938).
Director: Mervyn LeRoy; Producer: Sidney Franklin.
Starring: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon and Henry Travers.
Running time: 124 minutes.