July 13, 1949 –
Paramount Picture’s releases second film adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic, The Great Gatsby, starring Alan Ladd, Betty Field, Macdonald Carey, Ruth Hussey, Barry Sullivan, Shelley Winters, and Howard Da Silva, opened in the US on this date.
The original director was John Farrow. However, he was replaced with Elliott Nugent as he and the producer Richard Maibaum could not agree on the casting of Daisy Buchanan: Farrow wanted to cast Gene Tierney whereas Maibaum’s choice for the role was Betty Field. Farrow’s daughter Mia Farrow played Daisy in The Great Gatsby 25 years later.
The Haus of Dcaligari 