The Great Gatsby

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 1925 novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set during the Jazz Age on Long Island near New York City, the plot follows the exploits of enigmatic millionaire Jay Gatsby who attempts to win back the affections of his former lover Daisy Buchanan with the aid of her second cousin Nick Carraway. 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 later appeared in the 1974 version. Plot Amid the chaos and crime caused by Prohibition in the United States, a mysterious figure, Jay Gatsby, throws lavish parties at his Long Island Sound estate and asks neighbor Nick Carraway to arrange a private tea with Nick's cousin, Daisy Buchanan. It turns out Gatsby loved her before going off to World War I. Now a wealthy millionaire, Gatsby wants Daisy back, but she is married to Tom Buchanan and has a daughter. She is unhappy, however, and is aware her husband has been having an affair with Myrtle Wilson, the wife of an owner of a gas station owner George Wilson.