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Beloved Infidel
Beloved Infidel is a 1959 DeLuxe Color biographical drama film made by 20th Century Fox 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 memoir by Sheilah Graham and Gerold Frank. 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 stars Gregory Peck and Deborah Kerr, with Eddie Albert
Life" magazine, then one of America's most widely read and discussed periodicals. Scott was viewed as a fascinating failure; Zelda's mental health was largely blamed for his lost potential.
A play based on "The Disenchanted" opened on Broadway in 1958. Also that year, Scott's Hollywood mistress Sheilah Graham published a memoir, "Beloved Infidel", about his last years. "Beloved Infidel" became a bestseller and later a film starring Gregory Peck as Scott and Deborah Kerr as Graham. The book and