Download or read book The Great Gatsby: The 1926 Broadway Script written by James L. W. West III and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-25 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first-ever print edition of the script for the 1926 Broadway adaptation of The Great Gatsby. Owen Davis, 1923 Pulitzer Prize winner, and George Cukor, later of Hollywood fame, turned Fitzgerald's novel into a fast-moving drama of bootlegging, jazz and violence, resulting in an evening of first-rate entertainment for theatergoers.