Beloved Infidel (1959)

Directed by

Henry King

Genre

drama film, biographical film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 57m

Rated

10

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 28 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film is about the romantic relationship between writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and journalist Sheilah Graham. It shows their time together during the later years of his life. The story focuses on their personal struggles and the love they shared.

melancholicromanticbittersweetslow-burndramaticnostalgicintimateheartfelt

What happens

Beloved Infidel is a 1959 American DeLuxe Color biographical drama film made by 20th Century Fox in CinemaScope and based on the relationship of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sheilah Graham. The film was directed by Henry King and produced by Jerry Wald from a screenplay by Sy Bartlett, based on the 1958 memoir by Sheilah Graham and Gerold Frank (Fitzgerald wrote Graham a poem, "For Shielah [sic], a Beloved Infidel," in which he proclaimed his gratitude for what she had learned from her previous lovers). The music score was by Franz Waxman, the cinematography by Leon Shamroy and the art direction by Lyle R. Wheeler and Maurice Ransford. The film was the sixth and final collaboration between King and Peck. The film stars Gregory Peck and Deborah Kerr, along with Eddie Albert and Philip Ober. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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