Der große Gatsby

Before releasing Der große Gatsby (1974) in cinemas, Paramount Pictures suppressed the distribution of nitrate prints for The Great Gatsby (1926) and Der große Gatsby (1949) to deter theaters from playing those earlier versions instead of their upcoming 1974 version. This decision led to prints for both films being lost. In 2012, a print of the 1949 version was rediscovered. The 1926 version is still lost.

For the mid-1920s scene of car-loads of youngsters driving hot-rods while drinking hooch, the women are attired in mid-1930s fashions.

Featured in The Screen Writer (1950)