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=== Screenplay ===
 
=== Screenplay ===
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Fitzgerald wrote only one screenplay, which was an adaption of the novel ''Three Comrades'' (1929) by Erich Maria Remarque.  The movie was praised by critics, more so over time, and commercially successful.  Fitzgerald wrote the screenplay on a six-month contract with [[MGM]] for $1000 a week, beginning in July 1937.  He completed and submitted two-thirds of it in September.  The producer was Joseph Mankiewicz.  
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Fitzgerald wrote only one screenplay, which was an adaption of the novel ''Three Comrades'' (1929) by Erich Maria Remarque.<ref>https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0280234/?ref_=tt_cl_wr_1</ref> The movie was praised by critics, more so over time, and commercially successful.  Fitzgerald wrote the screenplay on a six-month contract with [[MGM]] for $1000 a week, beginning in July 1937.  He completed and submitted two-thirds of it in September.  The producer was Joseph Mankiewicz.
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Fitzgerald's screenplay was strongly anti-[[Nazi]], but was shockingly sanitized by [[Hollywood]] executives to remove anything critical of Nazi Germany.<ref name="Hollywood">https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/how-hollywood-helped-hitler-595684/</ref> Released in 1938, the movie could have been the first by [[Hollywood]] to be critical of [[Nazi]] Germany.  "At this critical historical moment, when a major Hollywood production could have alerted the world to what was going on in Germany, the director did not have the final cut; the Nazis did."<ref name="Hollywood"/>
    
Fitzgerald preferred the format of short stories and novels and did write any additional screenplays.
 
Fitzgerald preferred the format of short stories and novels and did write any additional screenplays.
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