The Great Gatsby #2 -- May 3, 2013

In one week, on 10-May-2013, the latest movie adaption of F Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby will open in theaters.  The second film adaption, made in 1949, starred Alan Ladd as Jay Gatsby.  I have never seen this version, but most of the stills that I have seen make it look like a film noir. 

Betty Field played Daisy Buchanan, Barry Sullivan played Tom Buchanan, Macdonald Carey played Nick Carraway, Shelley Winters played Myrtle Wilson, and Howard Da Silva played George Wilson. 

1927 Version (Warner Baxter as Gatsby)

Moving Picture Magazine Review of the 1927 Version

Photoplay Magazine Review of the 1927 Version

1974 Version (Robert Redford as Gatsby)