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"Tender Is The Night"
1934 Novel & Movies

'Tender Is The Night' 1934 first edition book jacket

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poster for 1962 'Tender Is The Night' movie

"Tender Is The Night" was the fourth novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald [1896-1940] and while the book was not a commercial success, he considered it his best work.

"Already with thee! tender is the night . . . But there is no light / Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown"
— John Keats [1795-1821]

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Character Models

Hollywood actress Lois Moran [1909-90] had an affair with Scott Fitzgerald in the 1930s
and was the basis for the character of Rosemary Hoyt in the "TITN" novel
IMDb listing • Broadway credits, 1930-33 • Wikipedia

Gerald Clery Murphy [1888-1964] and Sara Sherman Wiborg Murphy [1883-1975]
Gerald & Sara vacationed at Cap d'Antibes in 1921; the next year they bought a house there and renamed it Villa America; they invited Pablo Picasso, Ernest
Hemingway, Igor Stravinsky, Cole Porter, Scott Fitzgerald, and others to visit them; the main characters in "Tender Is The Night' [1934] were based on the Murphys.

Sara & Gerald: Villa America and After book by Honoria Murphy Donnelly    "Sara & Gerald: Villa America and After" [1982] by {daughter} Honoria Murphy Donnelly, with Richard N. Billings, Foreword by William M. Donnelly
Holt, Rinehart & Winston pb [5/84] out of print/many used
New York Times Books 9x6 hardcover [1982] out of print/used

Letters from the Lost Generation book edited by Linda Patterson Miller    "Letters From The Lost Generation: Gerald and Sara Murphy and Friends" [1991]
Edited by Linda Patterson Miller
Univ Press of Florida 9x6 pb [6/2002] for $24.95
Rutgers Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [4/91] out of print/used

Everybody Was So Young biography by Amanda Vaill    "Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy, A Lost Generation Love Story"
New York Times bestseller biography [1998] by Amanda Vaill
Kindle Edition from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt [5/2013] for $9.99
Broadway Books 8x5¼ pb [4/99] for $11.92
Houghton Mifflin 8¾x6 hardcover [5/98] out of print/many used

Living Well Is The Best Revenge book by Calvin Tomkins    "Living Well Is The Best Revenge" [rev 1998]
by Calvin Tomkins
Museum of Modern Art, New York 2nd edition pb [12/2013] for $11.96
Modern Library 2nd edition 7½x4¾ hardcover [11/98] out of print/many used

Making It New / Sara and Gerald Murphy book edited by Deborah Rothschild    "Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy" [2007]
Edited by art historian Deborah Rothschild; essays by Dorothy Kosinski, musicologist Olivia Mattis, Linda Patterson Miller, editor Rothschild, Kenneth Silver, William Jay Smith, Calvin Tomkins, Amanda Vaill, Kenneth Wayne, Trevor Winkfield
Univ California Press 10½x8½ pb [8/00] for $34.47
Univ California Press 10½x8½ hardcover [8/2007] for $74.98 {sic}

Villa America novel by Liza Klaussmann    "Villa America: A Novel" [2015] by Liza Klaussmann
A young American aviator finds himself drawn into the flamboyant world of the Murphys
and their circle.
Kindle Edition from Little, Brown/Hachette [8/2015] for $9.99
Back Bay Books 8¼x5½ pb [6/2016] for $8.79
Little, Brown & Co. 9½x6¼ hardcover [8/2015] for $4.49 {sic}

"This Woman Was Picasso, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald's Muse" [Smithsonian Channel 2016]
watch 1/2016 excerpt/promo [4:24] online at YouTube

The Author

author [bdd] F. Scott Fitzgerald

Movies & Television, Stageplays, Other Media

"Tender Is The Night" live TV broadcast [CBS-TV Sept 1955]
'Tender Is The Night' 1955 live TV broadcast Season 1, Episode 10 of the "Front Row Center" TV series [1955-56] • Produced, directed & hosted by Fletcher Markle; adapted for TV by Whitfield Cook; starring Mercedes McCambridge, James Daly, John Abbott, Olive Sturgess, Wilfred 'Budd' Knapp, Maurice Marsac, Sheila Bromley, Olan Soule, Kay Stewart, Gavin Gordon, Paul Gary, David Post, Adrienne D'Ambricourt, Tim Murphy, Cheryl Callaway, Voltaire Perkins
kinescope status unknown, VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • credits at IMDb

"Tender Is The Night" [Fox 1962] film adaptation starring Jennifer Jones, Jason Robards, and Joan Fontaine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tender_Is_the_Night_(film)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056566/
http://www.amazon.com/Tender-Night-Jennifer-Jones/dp/B00BGGIY1E/

"Tender Is The Night" a 1985 TV mini-series adaptation starring Mary Steenburgen, Peter Strauss, and Sean Young
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088626

"Tender Is The Night" [in-development for 2019?] /tt1641409/ 2019?

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"Tender Is The Night" stage adaptation by Simon Levy (by permission of the Fitzgerald Estat) was produced at The Fountain Theatre, Los Angeles in 1995.
won the PEN Literary Award in Drama and several other awards

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"Tender Is The Night" by F Scott Fitzgerald [BBC Radio May 2003]
adapted for radio by Michael Hastings, broadcast in two parts for The Classic Serial
https://archive.org/details/TENDERISTHENIGHT_201706 [56.57]
https://archive.org/details/TENDERISTHENIGHT_201706/02+TENDER+IS+THE+NIGHT.mp3 [57.10]

"Up and Down" [2015] ballet by Boris Eifman is loosely based on the "TITN" novel

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	"Sara & Gerald: Villa America and After" [1982] by {daughter} Honoria Murphy Donnelly, with Richard N. Billings, Foreword by William M. Donnelly Holt, Rinehart & Winston pb [5/84] out of print/many used New York Times Books 9x6 hardcover [1982] out of print/used
	"Letters From The Lost Generation: Gerald and Sara Murphy and Friends" [1991] Edited by Linda Patterson Miller Univ Press of Florida 9x6 pb [6/2002] for $24.95 Rutgers Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [4/91] out of print/used
	"Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy, A Lost Generation Love Story" New York Times bestseller biography [1998] by Amanda Vaill Kindle Edition from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt [5/2013] for $9.99 Broadway Books 8x5¼ pb [4/99] for $11.92 Houghton Mifflin 8¾x6 hardcover [5/98] out of print/many used
	"Living Well Is The Best Revenge" [rev 1998] by Calvin Tomkins Museum of Modern Art, New York 2nd edition pb [12/2013] for $11.96 Modern Library 2nd edition 7½x4¾ hardcover [11/98] out of print/many used
	"Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy" [2007] Edited by art historian Deborah Rothschild; essays by Dorothy Kosinski, musicologist Olivia Mattis, Linda Patterson Miller, editor Rothschild, Kenneth Silver, William Jay Smith, Calvin Tomkins, Amanda Vaill, Kenneth Wayne, Trevor Winkfield Univ California Press 10½x8½ pb [8/00] for $34.47 Univ California Press 10½x8½ hardcover [8/2007] for $74.98 {sic}
	"Villa America: A Novel" [2015] by Liza Klaussmann A young American aviator finds himself drawn into the flamboyant world of the Murphys and their circle. Kindle Edition from Little, Brown/Hachette [8/2015] for $9.99 Back Bay Books 8¼x5½ pb [6/2016] for $8.79 Little, Brown & Co. 9½x6¼ hardcover [8/2015] for $4.49 {sic}

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