Alan Ladd | Cinema Misfits

The Great Gatsby. The eyes of T. J. Eckleburg have nothing on the Misfits. In this Special Great Gatsby Episode, we stare long and hard at three of Hollywood’s attempts to bring F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic to the screen. Like the bespectacled eyes of Doctor Eckleburg, our gaze is often disapproving and occasionally downright judgmental. The part of Jay Gatsby has been played by Alan Ladd (1949), Robert Redford (1974), and Leonardo DiCaprio (2013). But when all is said and done, the question the Misfits must answer is, “Are any of these Gatsbys all that great?”