Fitzgerald’s Voice
Three recitations recorded by Fitzgerald in California, c. 1940:
- John Keats: “Ode to a Nightingale”
(8-bit / 2.3 MB) /
(RealAudio / 116K)
- John Masefield: “On Growing Old”
(8-bit / 1.3 MB) /
(RealAudio / 66K)
- William Shakespeare: Othello’s speech to the Venetian senators
(8-bit / 4 MB) /
(RealAudio / 198K)
(Download RealAudio Player from
http://www.realaudio.com/products/player/download.html).
Film Clips
- Fitzgerald in the Twenties. (mpeg format / 1 MB)
The page of his writing reads:
Everybody has been predicting a bad end for the flapperòbut I
don't think there is anything to worry about.
- Trailer for the silent-movie version of The Great Gatsby (Famous
Players, 1926)
No print of the first movie version of The Great Gatsby survives.
The only known footage is in the trailer.
This page updated December 4, 2003.
Copyright 2003, the Board of Trustees of the University of South Carolina.
URL http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/voice.html