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The Glass Menagerie is a 1950 American drama film directed by Irving Rapper. The screenplay by Tennessee Williams and Peter Berneis is based on the 1944 Williams play of the same title . It was the first of his plays to be adapted for the screen.
The Glass Menagerie [2] is a memory play by Tennessee Williams that premiered in 1944 and catapulted Williams from obscurity to fame. The play has strong autobiographical elements, featuring characters based on its author, his histrionic mother, and his mentally fragile sister.
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The Glass Menagerie is a 1973 American drama tv film based on the 1944 play of the same name by Tennessee Williams. It is directed by Anthony Harvey and stars Katharine Hepburn, Sam Waterston, Joanna Miles and Michael Moriarty. It marked the third screen adaptation of the play. It originally aired on ABC as part of the network's ABC Theater series.
[35] The Glass Menagerie won the award for the best play of the season, the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. The huge success of his next play, A Streetcar Named Desire, cemented his reputation as a great playwright in 1947. During the late 1940s and 1950s, Williams began to travel widely with his partner Frank Merlo (1922 – September 21 ...
The Glass Menagerie is a play by Tennessee Williams. It has been made into several films, including: The Glass Menagerie, a 1950 film directed by Irving Rapper; The Glass Menagerie, a 1966 TV film that originally aired on CBS; The Glass Menagerie, a 1973 TV film that originally aired on ABC
In his production notes, Williams says, "Being a 'memory play', The Glass Menagerie can be presented with unusual freedom of convention." [ 1 ] In a widening of the definition, it has been argued that Harold Pinter 's plays Old Times , No Man's Land and Betrayal are memory plays, where "memory becomes a weapon".
The Glass Menagerie is a 1966 American made-for-television drama film based on the 1944 play of the same name by Tennessee Williams. It is directed by Michael Elliott and stars Shirley Booth, Hal Holbrook, Barbara Loden and Pat Hingle. Sponsored by Xerox, it originally aired on December 8, 1966 as an installment of CBS Playhouse. [2]