F. Scott Fitzgerald - A Troubled Life Cut Short | Documentary

Now regarded as one of the most important voices in American literature, F Scott Fitzgerald died in obscurity, ignored and largely forgotten. The glitzy lifestyle of endless parties, cocktails and everyone wanting to be his friend a distant memory. In the nineteen twenties, he and his high-spirited wife Zelda, were the living embodiments of the Jazz Age – handsome, successful and buzzing with energy – but like the Jazz Age their lifestyle was unsustainable. In this video, I explore the brilliant but all too short life of F Scott Fitzgerald. A burdened life, fatally intertwined with that of the artistic but troubled Zelda. I reveal how the lives of two of America’s brightest young things slowly unraveled, with Zelda in and out of mental hospitals and Scott drowning his sorrows with alcohol. It is a sad story of two lives prematurely extinguished, but also a story about love, about how their love endured through all the temptations and troubles that fate put in their paths. Fi