Zelda Fitzgerald - Talented Writer & Artist | Biographical Documentary

Zelda Fitzgerald is one of the most enigmatic personalities of the Jazz Age. Opinions about her tend to be polarized – some seeing her flamboyant, high spending lifestyle as a constant drain on the creative energy of her husband - F Scott Fitzgerald - one of America’s greatest writers.
Others regard her as a talented dancer, writer and artist in her own right who was thwarted by Scott’s behaviour.

Finding Out More:
There are many biographies of F Scott Fitzgerald but, I would highly recommend Zelda Fitzgerald: Her Voice in Paradise by Sally Cline, which tells the story of Zelda and Scott’s life from her perspective. I have added this and some of the Scott biographies to my Amazon store page if you are interested: https://www.amazon.com/shop/professor...

Academic References:
Esteve, N., and Huertas, R. (2018). Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald and psychoanalysis: The construction of Tender Is the Night (1934). Culture and History Digital Journal, 7(1).
Lawson, A. (2015). The Muse and the Maker: Gender, Collaboration, and Appropriation in the Life and Work of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, 13(1), 76-109.
Tavernier-Courbin, J. (1979). Art as Woman's Response and Search: Zelda Fitzgerald's" Save Me the Waltz". The Southern Literary Journal, 22-42.
Wood, ME (1992) A Wizard Cultivator: Zelda Fitzgerald's Save Me the Waltz as Asylum Autobiography. Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. 11 (2), 223-264.

Copyright Disclaimer:
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Images:
Wikimedia Commons
Princeton University Library
The Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum, Montgomery

Music:
Claude Debussy "La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin" (The Girl with the Flaxen Hair) by Mike Ambrose.CC3.0
Claude Debussy "Clair de lune" in the Suite bergamasque by performed by Laurens Goedhart CC3.0
Claude Debussy: Préludes, Book 2: Canope. Giorgi Latsabidze. Free Art Licence
Julius Weissenborn - Trio for 3 Bassoons Op 4 - Arthur Grossman, Terry Ewell and Bruce Grainger CC2.0
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake Op.20 No.2.Waltz. John Barbirolli conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Public domain
Gustav Holst - The planets, op. 32 - Mars, the bringer of war. Skidmore College Orchestra CC Attribution
Johann Sebastian Bach - Partita For Solo Flute, a minor (BWV 1013). Scott Goff. CC2.0
Johann Sebastian Bach "Little" Fugue in G Minor, BWV 578 - Saxophone Quartet - United States Army Field Band. Public Domain.
Mozart; String Quartet No. 15 In C Major "Les Dissonances" K465. Quatuor Mosaïques. CC0.
Ernesto Di Capua: O sole mio: Jazz-Symphonie-Orchester Bernard Etté rearranged as a Tango and blues by Wilhelm Lindemann - Berlin 1927 CC0
George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra: From the King of Jazz (1930) Public domain
Scott Joplin - Gladiolus Rag - Pathé Dance Orchestra (public domain)
Regal Jazz Syncopators: Ping Sing Fox trot. Public Domain
Charleston Royalty Free Music. CC0
Walk through the park Track Tribe CC0
Asher Fulero Lament of the Ancients CC0
Aletheia (Unforgetting) Devon Church CC0
B - Somber Ballads by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Artist: http://incompetech.com/
I Am a Man Who Will Fight for Your Honor by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer", James Brigham. CC2.0
Johannes Brahms: Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet. William McColl and the Orford String Quartet, Andrew Dawes and Kenneth Perkins, violin; Sophie Renshaw, viola; Denis Brott, 'cello. CC2.0

Video produced by Graeme Yorston and Tom Yorston.