starring
F. Scott Fitzgerald 's autobiographical short story The Last of the Belles fictionalises his first meeting with his wife Zelda. This play within a play, made for American television, portrays Fitzgerald with his wife and child in 1928, when he was about to write the story - and then slips back to 1919, to Tarleton, Georgia, where a young officer, Andy McKenna , first sets eyes on Ailie Calhoun.
-... The best and most faithful capturing of the Fitzgerald mood and quality.
(SATURDAY REVIEW)
Screenplay by JAMES COSTIGAN Directed by GEORGE SCHAEFER for TITUS PRODUCTIONS
(First showing on British television)