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There was a time in Hollywood when it seemed as if all the girls were young and radiant, when all the men were dashing and witty. The Great Depression engulfed the rest of the world, but in Hollywood, life still had style and graciousness. The problems of the world could be forgotten, if not necessarily solved, by a happy ending. The American Dream was filmed and sent around the world; what began as play acting suddenly seemed to become more real than reality itself to the millions of people who went to the movies every week. F. Scott Fitzgerald's last novel "THE LAST TYCOON", is about that period in Hollywood, the source and perpetrator of the great myths of the twentieth century's most influential and vital art form. Surrounding ROBERT DE NIRO as Monroe Stahr is a cast of international stars. TONY CURTIS plays Rodriguez, an actor who has reached an age when he is worried about his inability to live up to his sex symbol image. ROBERT MITCHUM plays Pat Brady, the studio head, a man who loves Monroe Stahr as a son, but who fears that the younger man will take his film empire away from him. The legendary French actress JEANNE MORREAU is cast, fittingly enough, as Didi, Monroe Stahr's leading international star. JACK NICHOLSON is Brimmer, the Communist Union organiser whose ideas threaten the status quo of the Hollywood power structure. DONALD PLEASANCE is Boxley, an English author, who is forced to re-think his talent in order to write for the motion picture medium.
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