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.Every day she repeated thatApril 1934 letter to Fitzgerald: It seems to meshe wanted to return to Paris to resume herto be a very poignant book.I was swept almostballet work in which she thought she foundat once into the undertow of meanings and feel-the only satisfaction of her life.The visitsings.It is by no means as clear as Gatsby, but veryof her husband often offered the occasion forpossibly it is even a greater performance.Thereviolent arguments, always provoked by the hus- are passages which are almost unbearable in theirband s attempts to reason with the patient anddeflected intensity.But I didnt believe the end.to refute the patient s insinuations because theAnyway, congratulations.Perhaps best of all Ipatient suspected the husband of homosexual- like the way your gallant creatures carry on againstity.[Translated from the French] (PRINCETONtime, against space, almost against history (Cor-UNIVERSITY LIBRARY) respondence, p.346).389 390 Vidor, KingSee Bruce Kellner, Carl Van Vechten and the Villa Fleur des Bois Villa on the BoulevardIrreverent Decades (Norman: University of Okla- Eugène Gazagnaire in CANNES on the Frenchhoma Press, 1968).RIVIERA, which the Fitzgeralds rented in JulySeptember 1929.Vidor, King (1894 1982) Academy Award-win-ning MGM movie director whose movies includeVilla Marie Villa at VALESCURE, France, 2.5The Big Parade (1925), The Crowd (1928), Streetkilometers above ST.RAPHAËL, on the RIVIERA,Scene (1931), and Our Daily Bread (1934); friend ofwhich the Fitzgeralds rented for $79 a month fromFitzgerald.While Vidor was in PARIS in the summerJune 1924 until they traveled to ROME in October.of 1928, Fitzgerald introduced him to French novelistFitzgerald wrote much of The Great Gatsby at theANDRÉ CHAMSON; and the three planned a movieVilla Marie.collaboration that was abandoned when Chamsondeclined an invitation to HOLLYWOOD.Fitzgerald alsoVilla Paquita Villa at JUAN-LES-PINS on theintroduced Vidor to GERALD MURPHY, who collectedFrench RIVIERA which the Fitzgeralds rented fromspirituals and who went to Hollywood as an advisorMarch to May or June 1926, when they turned itwhen Vidor made Hallelujah!, the first major all-blackover to ERNEST and Hadley HEMINGWAY.movie, in 1929.Vidor was the partial model for MilesCalman in Crazy Sunday (October 1932).Villa St.Louis Villa at JUAN-LES-PINS on theVilla America Home of GERALD and SARA MUR- French RIVIERA which the Fitzgeralds rentedPHY at CAP D ANTIBES, France; a partial model forfrom May or June to December 1926, when theythe Villa Diana in Tender Is the Night.returned to America. WWanger, Walter (1894 1968) Producer of Win- vided a musical score.When agent HAROLD OBERter Carnival (1939), on which Fitzgerald briefly col- was unable to sell the treatment, Fitzgerald sentlaborated with BUDD SCHULBERG.When Wanger Warren to HOLLYWOOD to sell the treatment andtook the two writers to DARTMOUTH, the setting look for a writing job, providing him with lettersof the movie, Fitzgerald and Schulberg got drunk.of introduction, including one to MGM story edi-Wanger fired both writers but rehired Schulberg in tor Samuel Marx (1902 92): Warren s talents areCalifornia.amazingly varied he writes, composes, draws andhas this aforesaid general gift for the theatre andWarner, Reuben Childhood friend and rival ofI have a feeling that he should fit in there some-Fitzgerald in ST.PAUL; he was the model for Hubertwhere within a short time and should go close toBlair in the Basil Duke Lee stories.Fitzgerald lostthe top, in fact I haven t believed in anybody soMARGARET ARMSTRONG, a childhood sweetheart,strongly since Ernest Hemingway (May 21, 1934;to Warner.Fitzgerald noted in his Ledger for AprilCorrespondence, p.364).1911, The Scandal detectives go after Reuben (p.Although Warren did not find a Hollywood job165) an incident he later used in his 1928 storyin 1934, he later became a producer director for The Scandal Detectives. movies and television, creating the series Gunsmokeand Rawhide.Warren lived at Fitzgerald s MALIBUWarren, Charles Marquis (1868 1954) WriterBEACH house for a brief time in 1938.Warren swhom Fitzgerald met in BALTIMORE in 1934untrustworthy account of his friendship withthrough the VAGABOND JUNIOR PLAYERS.War-Fitzgerald is included in Aaron Latham s Crazyren, whose statements about their friendship can-Sundays (New York: Viking, 1971).not be verified, claimed that he collaborated withFitzgerald on Tender Is the Night; however, theWashington, Richard (Tubby) Childhood friendmanuscripts for the novel provide no evidence of of Fitzgerald in ST.PAUL; a member of the ELIZABE-collaboration.Warren claimed that the change of THAN DRAMATIC CLUB.When Fitzgerald returnedDevereux Warren s name to Charles Warren in to St.Paul in summer 1919 to live with his parentsBook III, Chapter 2 was Fitzgerald s acknowledg- while finishing This Side of Paradise, he renewedment of his help.his friendship with Washington, who lived in theFitzgerald and Warren did collaborate in April same row house on SUMMIT AVENUE
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