Crazy Sunday | Hollywood in Fitzgerald: After Paradise
In the following essay excerpt, Martin discusses the place of ‘‘Crazy Sunday’’ in relation to Fitzerald’s other works of the same period.
As Arthur Mizener has remarked in The Far Side of Paradise, the movies fascinated Fitzgerald, ‘‘as they must fascinate any artist, because, as a visual art, they have such exciting possibilities of greatness, for all their actual shoddiness, and because they offered Fitzgerald what always drew him, a Diamond-as-Big-as-the-Ritz scale of operation, a world ‘bigger and grander’ than the ordinary world.’’
According to Henry Dan Piper, scriptwriting offered little challenge to Fitzgerald, but ‘‘he had always been fascinated by the motion-picture industry as...
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