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Tea and Sympathy is a 1953 stage play in three acts by Robert Anderson about a male private school student, Tom Lee, who faces accusations of homosexuality. A woman, Laura, who is married to an instructor, opposes the students' shaming of Lee and romantically pursues him so he can prove that he has a masculine character. [ 1 ]
Tea and Sympathy is a 1956 American drama film and an adaptation of Robert Anderson's 1953 stage play of the same name directed by Vincente Minnelli and produced by Pandro S. Berman for MGM in Metrocolor. The music score was by Adolph Deutsch and the cinematography by John Alton.
Robert Woodruff Anderson (April 28, 1917 – February 9, 2009) [1] was an American playwright, screenwriter, and theatrical producer. He received two Academy Award nominations for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, for the drama films The Nun's Story (1959) and I Never Sang for My Father (1970), the latter based on his play.
The hands-down most promising of the outside dramatists was Robert Anderson whose first major play “Tea and Sympathy” won him membership in the company as soon as the company read it. “Tea and Sympathy” opened in 1953 and became The Playwrights Company’s longest running show (more than 2 1/2 years).
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Pages in category "Plays by Robert Woodruff Anderson" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. ... Tea and Sympathy (play) Y.
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Having established herself as a film actress in the meantime, she made her Broadway debut in 1953, appearing in Robert Anderson's Tea and Sympathy, for which she received a Tony Award nomination. Kerr performed the same role in Vincente Minnelli's film adaptation released in 1956; her stage partner John Kerr (no relation) also appeared.