The Jazz Age novel has inspired designers from Ralph Lauren to Miuccia Prada The traffic light turns green on a crowded jag of downtown Manhattan. Polished women shake their choppy, chopped hair in ...

Robert Redford in The Great Gatsby (1974). Toward the end of his life, F. Scott Fitzgerald, consumed by thoughts of inadequacy and convinced he was a “has-been,” wrote to his editor Max ...

Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby in 1974. Initially, Marlon Brando was approached to play protagnonist Jay Gatsby, but his salary demands quickly ruled him out as an option. Meanwhile ...

"The idea that we're the greatest people in the world because we have the most money in the world is ridiculous. Wait until ...

The Great Gatsby has been adapted for the screen on multiple occasions – with mixed results. Jack Clayton’s 1974 version, starring Robert Redford as the eponymous Gatsby, was faithful to ...

Getty Images Robert Redford in the 1974 film By the 1970s, The Great Gatsby was a near-universal part of the American high school curriculum; its characters became shorthand for the uniquely ...