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Scott Fitzgerald and Sheilah Graham. Wheeler and Maurice Ransford. Sheilah Graham sails from England to the U. He hires her to write a column, and when its blunt and gossipy nature increases its popularity, Sheilah also is offered her own radio program. She meets acclaimed author F. Scott Fitzgerald at a party Babglon the home of humorist Bob Carter, her friend.

An immediate attraction is formed, although Scott is still married to wife Zelda, who has been institutionalized in a psychiatric hospital. To meet financial obligations, Scott has accepted a position in Hollywood writing film scripts, expressing the belief that his novels are no longer of interest. Babylonn excessive drinking affects his mood and his work.

Scott is haunted by the memories of Zelda and the success and fun they had together. He learns that a play is being produced in Pasadena based on one of his stories and takes Sheilah to see it, only to Fitzferald that it is a production by high school students, some of whom are unaware that the writer is even still alive. Sheilah copes with his growing alcoholism and tries to leave him until Scott sends a goodbye note, sounding suicidal.

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She confesses to him that her own past haunts her, everything she claimed to be being a lie: Sheilah actually is a girl from the London slums. She appeals to Scott to write another book, but after he sends in the first four chapters, Scott receives a publisher's letter of rejection. Sheilah's radio show Babhlon based in Chicago, and as she travels there, Scott becomes abusive, first https://amazonia.fiocruz.br/scdp/essay/is-lafayette-a-hidden-ivy/united-states-in-the-years-1860-1870.php an airplane and then to one of her colleagues.

What she doesn't know is that Scott has been fired by the studio, which finds his script work unacceptable. Sheilah continues to stand by him, but eventually Scott's health gives out. He collapses and dies, a forlorn figure of the past.]