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Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller , he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.
First edition (publ. New Directions) . Sweet Bird of Youth is a 1959 play by Tennessee Williams that tells the story of a gigolo and drifter, Chance Wayne, who returns to his hometown as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra del Lago (travelling incognito as Princess Kosmonopolis), whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies.
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.
Sweet Bird of Youth (also known as Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth) is a 1989 American made-for-television drama film directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Mark Harmon. [1] Adapted from the 1959 Tennessee Williams play of the same name by Gavin Lambert , it focuses on the relationship between a drifter and a faded ...
The serio-comic play focuses on Lot, a tubercular neurotic youth who is an impotent, closeted transvestite overly attached to the memory of his late mother. He has returned to his ancestral home, a decaying house on the edge of a river on the verge of overflowing, with his new bride Myrtle, a sometime prostitute and former showgirl, the sole surviving member of the Five Memphis Hot Shots.
[1] [2] Williams was interested in casting Julie Harris in the lead role. [3] He continued to work on the script as late as 1980; it was published after his death. [4] Jodie Markell recalled how she first became aware of the script: "I had been interested in Tennessee Williams since I was a teenager. I'd read a lot of his work, everything I ...
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The film reunited Berman with Paul Newman, MGM, and Richard Brooks, who had previously made a very successful version of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams, also for MGM. [3] [4] [5] Brooks later said he only did the film because Paul Newman asked him to do it. [8] "Sweet Bird I didn’t want to do," he said. "While I thought it was a ...