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Vladimir Nabokov Had Nothing to Do With the 1974 Great Gatsby Movie
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If you go to the Wikipedia page for the 1974 film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, you may notice something curious. On the upper right-hand side of the page, where the credits are listed, there, below Francis Ford Coppola's name, is Vladimir Nabokov's.
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Vladimir Nabokov Had Nothing to Do With the 1974 Great Gatsby Movie
By David Haglund | Posted Tuesday, April 9, 2013, at 4:30 PM 918
Robert Redford never spoke dialogue written by Vladimir Nabokov. Or Philip Roth. Or Thomas Pynchon.
If you go to the Wikipedia page for the 1974 film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, you may notice something curious. On the upper right-hand side of the page, where the credits are listed, there, below Francis Ford Coppola's name, is Vladimir Nabokov's. The famous Russian-American author, the Wikipedia page says, did "rewrites" on the script.
A detail from the Wikipedia page for the 1974 film version of The Great Gatsby.
Of course he did no such thing. Nabokov didn't even like Fitzgerald's novel. ("Tender Is the Night, magnificent; The Great Gatsby, terrible," he told Fitzgerald biographer Arthur Mizener.) Just to be sure, though, I asked Andrea Pitzer, author of The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov. She assured me that the author of Lolita had nothing to do with the famously disappointing Robert Redford vehicle, which co-starred Mia Farrow and Sam Waterston....//...
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