"In the '30s, a lot of the adversity the Fitzgeralds face in their personal lives is some of what makes them ultimately admirable. Clifton Spargo, author of Beautiful Fools: The Last Affair of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald. "We’re very attracted to this glam couple of the '20s, but the flip side of their story is this somber tale of a lot of misfortune," says R. She died 12 years later at age 47 in a fire at a psychiatric hospital in Asheville, N.C., where she was being treated. For us, giving Zelda a first-person account felt like a bit of justice for her."īefore Nancy Milford's definitive 1970 biography Zelda, the most telling window into her life was through her husband's novels: he featured aspects of her personality and their marriage into This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and the Damned, The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night - the latter was written around the time of Zelda's hospitalization in 1932 for schizophrenia. "To me, any time someone’s dismissed that way, it’s kind of, 'Oh, there must be something really interesting here.'. Going into Z, "I kind of knew the common misconception everyone has about her, that she was a crazy alcoholic woman who ruined F. The first season culminates in Zelda's discovery that she's pregnant with her first and only child, Frances (aka "Scottie") - years before her marriage to Scott was mired by alcoholism, mutual infidelity and her struggles with mental illness. Now, Amazon Prime is hopping on the Fitzgerald fixation with its new streaming series Z: The Beginning of Everything (out Friday).īased on Therese Anne Fowler's Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, the 10-episode period drama stars Christina Ricci as the fashionable socialite and writer, tracing her modest beginnings in Montgomery, Ala., and whirlwind romance with novelist F. Last fall, news surfaced that Jennifer Lawrence and Scarlett Johansson are attached to competing biopics being developed about the Jazz Age icon. Zelda Fitzgerald has long been a source of pop-culture fascination, inspiring both a song (The Eagles' Witchy Woman) and a video game character ( The Legend of Zelda), and cropping up in movies (Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris) and TV shows (a Season 4 episode of Magnum, P.I.). According to The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia, a PR rep advised the princess be “a timeless beauty with classic appeal.” He suggested they name the princess after the wife of the famous American author, an “eternal beauty.Nearly 70 years after her death, America's first flapper is more ubiquitous than ever. (Of course.) Japanese game creator Shigeru Miyamoto just needed a name. Players would enter the world as Link, an elf-like character set on saving the captured princess. And she was the muse for The Eagles’ “Witchy Woman.” But did we know that her reach expanded to video games? That’s right: Zelda Fitzgerald was also the namesake for Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda.Īs the story goes, the plot was set. She served as the inspiration for Daisy Buchanan, for one. We know she’s been immortalized in literature. In fact, people are still so enamored by the couple that they’d pay $72 a night to stay in their old Alabama home. Their love story continues to fascinate us. She was a writer, a socialite, and (obviously) the wife of F. What’s there to say about Zelda Fitzgerald that hasn’t already been said? She was an icon of the Jazz Age, the first flapper, the face of the roaring ’20s.
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