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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 1957 memoir by Sheilah Graham and Gerold Frank.
Graham also later wrote of her years spent with Fitzgerald in the 1958 book Beloved Infidel, [8] [9] which was later adapted as a movie. Upon Fitzgerald's death, seeking a respite from the social demands and frantic pace of her life, Graham arranged for an assignment as a foreign correspondent in NANA's London bureau. [8]
The last years of Fitzgerald's life and his relationship with Sheilah Graham served as the basis for Beloved Infidel (1959) based on Graham's 1958 memoir of the same name. [13] The film depicts an alcoholic Fitzgerald (played by Gregory Peck) and his struggle with sobriety while romancing Graham (played by Deborah Kerr). [13]
In "Beloved Infidel", a plaintive ballad, Rundgren sings sadly of how the "weak are vilified and wicked glorified"; he awaits the return of the beloved infidel, which seems a metaphor for truth, when the 'liberation bell' will be rung.
She was expecting a middle child in 1959 but lost the baby unexpectedly while filming Beloved Infidel. [3] She retired in 1964 and lived the rest of her days in the community of Jupiter, Florida, where she died on July 27, 2003 [3] and was cremated [7] with her ashes scattered at sea. [citation needed]
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Beloved Infidel: the education of a woman, by Sheilah Graham and Frank (Holt, 1958) Zsa Zsa Gábor: my story, written for me by Gerold Frank (Cleveland: World Publishing, 1960), with Zsa Zsa Gábor; The Deed (Simon & Schuster, 1963) – about Lord Moyne, assassinated 1944
She left him her papers and record and instructed Westbrook to tell her story, [1] which he did, describing his mother's romance with F. Scott Fitzgerald, and other details that were omitted from Graham's 1958 memoir, Beloved Infidel.