The Great Gatsby film versions

The Great Gatsby has been filmed four times:

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1.The Great Gatsby, in 1926 by Herbert Brenon – a silent movie of a stage adaptation, starring Warner Baxter, Lois Wilson, and William Powell. It is a famous example of a lost film. Reviews suggest that it may have been the most faithful adaptation of the novel, but a trailer of the film at National Archives is all that is known to exist;

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2.The Great Gatsby, in 1949 by Elliott Nugent – starring Alan Ladd, Betty Field, and Shelley Winters; for copyright reasons, this film is not readily available;

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3.The Great Gatsby, in 1974, by Jack Clayton – the most famous screen version, starring Robert Redford in the title role with Mia Farrow as Daisy Buchanan and Sam Waterston as Nick Carraway, with a script by Francis Ford Coppola;

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4.The Great Gatsby, in 2000 by Robert Markowitz – a made-for-TV movie starring Toby Stephens, Paul Rudd and Mira Sorvino.

In the HBO television series Entourage, the character Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier) is hired by Martin Scorsese for a film adaptation of the book, where he plays Nick.

The second season of the Showtime television series Californication, starting with its second episode The Great Ashby, is partly a modern take on the novel, with the characters Lew Ashby, Janie Jones and Hank Moody as modern versions of Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan and Nick Carraway.

Warner Bros. Pictures are producing a Bollywood adaptation of the novel and is set to be directed by award-winning director, Sanjay Leela Bhansali. It will feature an ensemble cast starring Hrithik Roshan, Kareena Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, Ranbir Kapoor and Prachi Desai. The film is set for release on August 19, 2011.

Sources : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby