The life of author F. Scott Fitzgerald is combined with the fiction he's so famous for in this film that stars Richard Chamberlain as Fitzgerald and Blythe Danner as his fiancée, Zelda. Thinking back to his time in the Army, Fitzgerald puts himself into one of his own stories in this fictional account of a soldier who meets a young, playful Southern belle (Susan Sarandon) who ends up catching the eye of everyone.