F Scott Fitzgerald - Too Much Too Soon? Biographical Documentary

This updated and expanded documentary explores the brilliant but all too short life of F Scott Fitzgerald. 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. He achieved fame and wealth early in life, but died in obscurity, ignored and largely forgotten. The glitzy lifestyle of endless parties, cocktails and everyone wanting to be his friend a distant memory. Professor Graeme Yorston reveals how the lives of two of America’s brightest young things slowly unravelled, 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 – or did it? Finding Out More: There are many individual biographies of F Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre/Fitzgerald, but the book I found the most enjoyable was Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald I have added this and some of the other biographies to my Amazon store page if you are interested: https://www.amazon.com/shop/professor... Academic References; Bruccoli, MJ (2002) Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald (2nd rev. ed.), Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press. Goodwin, D. W. (1970). The Alcoholism of F. Scott Fitzgerald. JAMA, 212(1), 86-90. Irwin, J. M. (1987). F. Scott Fitzgerald's little drinking problem. The American Scholar. 56 (3), 415-427. Mizener, A (1951) The Far Side of Paradise: A Biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin. Copyright Disclaimer: The primary purpose of this video is educational. I have tried to use material in the public domain or with Creative Commons Non-attribution licences wherever possible. Where attribution is required, I have listed this below. I believe that any copyright material used falls under the remit of Fair Use, but if any content owners would like to dispute this, I will not hesitate to immediately remove that content. It is not my intention to infringe on content ownership in any way. If you happen to find your art or images in the video, please let me know and I will be glad to credit you. Images: Wikimedia Commons Princeton University Library Wellcome Collection Music: Scott Joplin – The Entertainer – User.IE (PD), Gladiolus Rag - Pathé Dance Orchestra (PD), March Majestic (PD), Solace - performed by Constantin Stephan. CC4.0,Ragtime Betty - João Pedro Cunha, violin, Pedro Carlos Silva, piano. CC3.0 Original Dixieland Jazz Band - Livery Stable Blues (1917, PD) Jazz Clarinet and Trombone– Serolillo – CC2.5 Sweet Georgia Brown - Dixieland Band of the United States Army Field Band's Jazz Ambassadors (PD) Cinus Laurent - Etude n°6 Free Art Licence Vladan Kuzmanović - Concert for Half Piano in E Flat Major CC4.0 Jonathon Little - Sacred Prelude, Op.1, for string quintet. Soloists of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra CC3.0 Lloyd Rogers Slow – CC0 Carl Reinecke - Wind Octet Op. 216 - 3. Adagio - Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet: CC2.0 Rachmaninov – Vocalise -Roxana Pavel Goldstein, violin and Monica Pavel piano CC2.0, Prelude in B Minor, Op. 32, No. 10, performed by La Pianista. CC3.0, Concerto No 2 for Piano and Orchestra in C minor. Pianist. Kuneu (Ku Hanho) Piano, Citi Philharmonic Orchestra. CC Reuse Allowed. Debussy – Deuxième Arabesque - Patrizia Prati. CC ‎4.0, Rêverie – David Hernando Vitores ‎CC4.0, "Clair de lune" in the Suite bergamasque by performed by Laurens Goedhart CC3.0 JS Bach "Little" Fugue in G Minor, BWV 578 - Saxophone Quartet - United States Army Field Band. PD; Partita For Solo Flute, a minor (BWV 1013). Scott Goff. CC2.0 Regal Jazz Syncopators: Ping Sing Fox trot. PD Julius Weissenborn - Trio for 3 Bassoons Op 4 - Arthur Grossman, Terry Ewell and Bruce Grainger CC2.0 Di Capua: O sole mio: Jazz-Symphonie-Orchester Bernard Etté rearranged as a Tango and blues by Wilhelm Lindemann - Berlin 1927 CC0 Charleston Royalty Free Music. CC0 Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake Op.20 No.2.Waltz. John Barbirolli conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra. PD Quincas Moreira El Gavilan George Gershwin - 3 Preludes, performed by La Pianista CC3.0, Do it again from The French Doll 1922 Paul Whiteman Orchestra PD; 3 preludes for clarinet and Piano: Byeon Gyu-ri, piano and Kim Hwa-jeong CC Attribution: Rialto Ripples Jeffrey Biegel YT, Rhapsody in Blue Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra: From the King of Jazz (1930) PD, The Man I Love – Constantin Stephan, piano CC4.0 PeriTune: Café Musette CC3.0 John Bartman Mellow Café Vibe CC1.0 Villa-Lobos: Trio for oboe, clarinet and Bassoon. Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet CC2.0 Video editing by Manavi Sakunika Video #fscottfitzgerald #biography #author #documentary