Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named Desire

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Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman,
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Maggie is the feline in question, as portrayed by a smoldering, angry Elizabeth Taylor. Paul Newman is her ex-athlete husband, Brick Pollitt, an alcoholic who frustrates and disappoints his wife and his overbearing father. Burl Ives is Big Daddy, the vulgar patriarch of this positively gothic Southern family whose children return to the nest like vultures when they learn he is dying of cancer. Infidelities, addictions, latent homosexuality, depression, unrequited love, and mendacity are woven into this still-powerful adaptation of Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Though it was somewhat whitewashed by Hollywood, the sentiment remains powerful because of the provocative performances. It was nominated for several Academy Awards, including Best Actor and Actress for Newman and Taylor. --Rochelle O'Gorman

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Starring: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando,
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Looking for a benchmark in movie acting? Breakthrough performances don't come much more electrifying than Marlon Brando's animalistic turn as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire. Sweaty, brutish, mumbling, yet with the balanced grace of a prizefighter, Brando storms through the role--a role he had originated in the Broadway production of Tennessee Williams's celebrated play. Stanley and his wife, Stella (as in Brando's oft-mimicked line, "Hey, Stellaaaaaa!"), are the earthy couple in New Orleans's French Quarter whose lives are upended by the arrival of Stella's sister, Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh). Blanche, a disturbed, lyrical, faded Southern belle, is immediately drawn into a battle of wills with Stanley, beautifully captured in the differing styles of the two actors

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Tennessee Williams plays

A Streetcar Named Desire
Baby Doll & Tiger Tail
Battle of Angels
Camino Real
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Clothes for a Summer Hotel
The Glass Menagerie
The Gnadiges Fraulein
The Mutilated
Night of the Iguana
Not About Nightingales
The Notebook of Trigorin
Period of Adjustment
Small Craft Warnings
Suddenly Last Summer
Summer and Smoke
The Rose Tatoo
Sweet Bird of Youth
Vieux Carre

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