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Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story
Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story is a 2020 documentary film about the origins of The Great Gatsby, as well as Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald’s honeymoon months in Westport, Connecticut. Produced, directed, and co-written by Robert Steven Williams, it is narrated by Keir Dullea and features Sam Waterston. The documentary was selected by The New Yorker as one of the best movies of 2020 (#30 out of 36 movies) and was distributed by Vision Films. Charles Scribner, the grandson of Scott’s publisher, was an executive producer on the project. Production History

In researching the Fitzgeralds’ Westport period, co-writers Robert Steven Williams and local historian, Richard Deej Webb, spent seven years researching and interviewing scholars about the little-known Westport period. Eleanor Lanahan, one of Scott and Zelda’s grandchildren is interviewed in the film.

Inspired by an article written by former Westport resident, Barbara Probst Solomon, she was the first to connect the dots on the origins of Gatsby in Connecticut. She is featured in the documentary.

Although the Great Gatsby is one of the most researched pieces of American literature, Professor James West, the leading Fitzgerald authority appears in the documentary stating that Williams and Webb’s research had made a great contribution to the Fitzgerald scholarship.

Two years prior to the documentary’s release, The New York Times wrote about the research of Williams and Webb. The film was completed in 2020 and was accepted into twenty domestic and international film festivals.