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THE MOVIE
The 2007 project culminated with screenings of Francis Ford Coppola's 1974 The Great Gatsby at the beautiful Orpheum Theatre in downtown Sioux City, Iowa.
According to the Wikipedia Web site, The Great Gatsby has been 
filmed four times, which include the following:
- The Great Gatsby (1926 film), in 1926 by Herbert Brenon – a silent movie of a stage adaptation, starring Warner Baxter and Lois Wilson. According to the IMDb, no known copies have survived (only a trailer with a few minutes of footage is known to exist);
- The Great Gatsby (1949 film), in 1949 by Elliott Nugent – starring Alan Ladd and Betty Field; ... for copyright reasons, this film is not readily available;
- The Great Gatsby (1974 film), in 1974, by Jack Clayton – the most famous screen version, starring Robert Redford in the title role with Mia Farrow as Daisy Buchanan & Sam Waterston as Nick Carraway, with a script by Francis Ford Coppola;
- The Great Gatsby (2000 TV), in 2000 by Robert Markowitz – a made-for-TV movie starring Toby Stephens and Mira Sorvino.
This information taken from Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby#Film.2C_TV_or_theatrical_adaptations.
