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The Great Gatsby is a surviving silent film that was made one year after F. Scott Fitzgerald's book of the same name was published. It was produced by the Famous Players-Lasky and released by Paramount Pictures as part of their 15th Anniversary. The film only survives on VHS, but it's not online yet. However, the trailer for the film from the 1926 VHS of Old Ironsides is still available if you don't have the VHS.
Cast:
- Warner Baxter as Jay Gatsby
- Lois Wilson as Daisy Buchanan
- Neil Hamilton as Nick Carraway
- Georgia Hale as Myrtle Wilson
- William Powell as George Wilson
- Hale Hamilton as Tom Buchanan
- George Nash as Charles Wolf
- Carmelita Geraghty as Jordan Baker
- Eric Blore as Lord Digby
- Gunboat Smith as Bert
- Claire Whitney as Catherine
- Claude Brooke - Bit part (uncredited)
- Nancy Kelly - Uncredited role
The Great Gatsby Movie Trailer from 1926
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