Sometimes, fiction is necessary to set the facts straight.
The Disenchanted is based on the destination of the two men in this 1939 photograph.
Hollywood had just commissioned them to write a script about the Dartmouth Winter Festival. Scott Fitzgerald–to the surprise of no one–got fired from the assignment.
His protege, Budd Schulberg, morphed the experience into a novel that is said to be out of print but can be found on the shelves of the Long Beach Public Library.
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