Zelda: Having A Lively Time Of It
This is the season of Zelda. On stage, on screen, on catwalks. You know, Zelda Fitzgerald. The gal who once said, “To be young and beautiful for a long time. That’s what I want.” As this article elaborates, “And that’s what she got. The Montgomery, Alabama, native died on March 10, 1948, in a fire at a North Carolina mental hospital when she was relatively young — 48 — if not perfectly beautiful. She outlived her famous husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, by eight years. “Zelda’s singular,†says Maureen Mueller, the actress-singer playing her in This Side of Paradise, a new off-Broadway musical about the Fitzgeralds, beginning April 14 at the Theatre at St. Clements in New York. I suspect that Keira Knightley, who’s playing Zelda in the upcoming film, “The Beautiful and the Damned,” would agree.
