The film that was based on F. Scott Fitzgerald`s famous novel of the same name has it`s climactic scene set at The Plaza. The film was written and directed by Baz Luhrman and starred Leonardo Dicaprio as Jay Gatsby, and also included Tobey Maguire and Carey Mulligan.The (real) Fitzgeralds were famously patrons of the iconic New York hotel. According to legend, the duo took a spontaneous nighttime swim in the Pulitzer Fountain outside the posh hotel. F. Scott even set the climatic confrontation scene in his masterpiece The Great Gatsby inside a Plaza room on a hot summer afternoon.

The Plaza Hotel

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The Great Gatsby

Martin Scorsese's film depiction of the Five Points gangs starring Daniel Day Lewis and Leonardo Di Caprio opens.In 1862, a long-running Catholic&ndash;Protestant feud erupts into violence, just as an Irish immigrant group is protesting against the low wages caused by an influx of freed slaves and the threat of conscription.

Seated on a back alley staircase is a woman introduced as&amp;nbsp;Hell-Cat Maggie, shown filing her feline teeth to sharp points. Later, in one of the film's many blood-soaked fight scenes, she pounces on a rival gangster with her razor-sharp brass claws and bites his ear off, preserving it with the rest of her battle souvenirs in a bar-top pickle jar. (Her name later inspired a brand of Irish whiskey.)  

In order to create the sets that Scorsese envisioned, the production was filmed at the large&amp;nbsp;Cinecitt&amp;agrave;&amp;nbsp;Studio in&amp;nbsp;Rome, Italy. Consisting of a five-block area of&amp;nbsp;Lower Manhattan  

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An American actor, film producer, and environmentalist. Known for playing unconventional roles in biopics and period films, DiCaprio has received numerous accolades throughout his career, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and three Golden Globe Awards.  

Leonardo DiCaprio

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