Their exploits, adventures, he says, are a big part of what inspired his writing, and since his writing was more likely to make the Fitzgeralds money, he said, the diaries should remain free for his use. In the Amazon series, it’s Scott’s book editor, Maxwell Perkins, who wants to publish Zelda’s personal diaries as a book, to which Scott immediately says no. Jim True-Frost as Maxwell Perkins and Christina Ricci as Zelda Fitzgerald (Credit: Amazon Prime Studios) The Fitzgeralds were party pals with Tallulah Bankhead and her sister Eugenia. Sadly, she never published another book, as the autobiographical Save Me the Waltz - which also angered Scott because it was inspired by details of their marriage that he wanted to use in his Tender Is the Night - sold less than half its original 3,000-copy printing. In Sally Cline’s book Zelda Fitzgerald: The Tragic, Meticulously Researched Biography of the Jazz Age’s High Priestess, Cline writes that Scott claimed the book was “plagiaristic” - pot, kettle situation there - and told Zelda she was a “third-rate writer and a third-rate ballet dancer.” Later in her life, as will undoubtedly be depicted on screen if there are further seasons of the Amazon series, Zelda resumed her practice of ballet that she had begun as a child, and sacrificed her physical health to become so good at it that she was offered a solo part in an Italian production of Aida. Scott was unhappy with its publication, and cruel in his review of it.
Zelda eventually published one novel of her own, 1932’s Save Me the Waltz, which she wrote in just six weeks while a patient in the psychiatric unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital. And she allowed it, as he sold her on the idea that they were a team. Christina Ricci (Credit: Richard Foreman/Amazon Prime Video)
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