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Tennessee Williams

Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) was an American playwright.

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Movies Made By Tennessee Williams (58)

The Glass Menagerie (2021)

An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her dreams of what life should be. ...

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National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2018)

Tennessee Williams' twentieth century masterpiece Cat on a Hot Tin Roof played a strictly limited season in London's West End in 2017. An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feel ...

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National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire (2014)

As Blanche's fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski. ...

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Here Without Me (2011)

The story is about the world of a small family with familiar dreams and not so remarkable problems. The mother is trying to lead everything to save her family, but small events disarrange all her plans. ...

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The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (2008)

Tells the story of Fisher Willow, the disliked 1920s Memphis débutante daughter of a plantation owner with a distaste for narrow-minded people and a penchant for shocking and insulting those around her. After returning from studies overseas, Fisher falls ...

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Suddenly, Last Summer (2007)

The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth. ...

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Akale (2004)

Margaret's dream of getting her differently abled daughter married shatters when she finds that the boy she chooses for her is engaged to someone else. ...

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The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (2003)

An aging actress' husband dies of a heart attack en route to Rome, where they'd planned to holiday. There, she rents an apartment and, through the Contessa, she meets a young man, with whom she begins an affair. ...

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The Yellow Bird (2002)

A young girl escapes the boredom of a small town existence in the 1930s. ...

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Desire (2002)

Layla lives a peaceful life with her husband Hossam in one of the coastal cities. When her older sister Nemat comes to live with her after facing financial difficulties, Hossam tries to dig into Nemat's past, especially after one of his best friends falls ...

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A Streetcar Named Desire - The San Francisco Opera World Premiere (1998)

As Blanche's fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski. ...

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A Streetcar Named Desire (1995)

A fading Southern Belle moves in with her sister in New Orleans where her ferocious brother-in-law takes stabs at her sanity. ...

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Suddenly, Last Summer (1993)

The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth. ...

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Orpheus Descending (1990)

Val Xavier is a drifter in 1940's Mississippi who brings new life to an Italian immigrant woman trapped in a loveless marriage. ...

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27 Wagons Full of Cotton (1990)

In order to boost his own cotton ginning business, Jake Meighan sets the local Syndicate Plantation ablaze. the superintendent of the Syndicate Plantation sends over 27 wagons full of cotton for ginning, and turns aside his suspicions that Jake is the arso ...

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Een vreemde liefde (1990)

A lonely man tossed by life and hectored by his landlady finds happiness only with an alley cat. ...

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Sweet Bird of Youth (1989)

Tennessee William's masterful melodrama about an aging movie star who, appalled by her own image on the screen, flees from her movie premiere and goes into seclusion, becoming entangled with a much younger hotel masseur and resident gigolo. ...

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1989)

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but ...

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The Glass Menagerie (1987)

An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her dreams of what life should be. ...

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A Streetcar Named Desire (1987)

As Blanche's fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski. ...

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Noir et blanc (1986)

Antoine is an accountant, uptight and withdrawn, married to Edith, who picks out his clothes and shoes. He's assigned to a fitness gymnasium for a month to straighten out their books. The owner, M. Roland, encourages Antoine to use the facilities, includin ...

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The Piper (1985)

Al-Zamar Hassan is on the run after he was an Engineering student and presented a play with the acting team in the Faculty that the authorities didn't like. He moves from village to village in Upper Egypt, in search of safety. He settles in the village of ...

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1984)

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but ...

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A Streetcar Named Desire (1984)

As Blanche's fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski. ...

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Bourbon Street Blues (1979)

An adaptation of Tennessee Williams' "The Lady Larkspur Lotion" created by Douglas Sirk with the assistance of his film students and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It depicts the conflict between a dreamy, delusional heroine and her brusque, practical landlady, ...

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Cat on Fire (1977)

Contractor Mahmoud Abdel Majeed is afflicted with cancer, and his children hide the truth about his illness from him. This man has two sons, the eldest, Mukhtar, has a weak personality, while the younger son, Amin, does not covet his father's money and liv ...

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1976)

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but ...

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Talk to Me Like the Rain (1976)

A small-scale, bare room situation involving a man and a woman who are bound together in an endless cycle by their hopeless poverty. Tennessee Williams' themes are explored in the man's alcoholism and the woman's desperation. ...

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The Eccentricities of a Nightingale (1976)

The tale of a lonely Southern woman's longing for her handsome next-door neighbor. At once tragic and romantic, the story is a reworking of the Williams play "Summer and Smoke," which uses the same characters and setting but in dramatically different ways. ...

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The Migrants (1974)

A look at the lives of migratory farm workers, focusing on one family. ...

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The Glass Menagerie (1973)

An aging Southern belle's preoccupation with her past and her dreams for her children's futures threaten to smother her painfully shy daughter and her aspiring writer son. ...

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Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970)

A new bride gets caught between her decadent husband and his black half-brother. ...

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Dragon Country (1970)

Producer-director Glenn Jordan brought together two Tennessee Williams plays, written twenty years apart, that examine the theme of isolation with searching clarity. The joint presentation, entitled "Dragon Country," features the world premiere of "I Can't ...

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The Glass Menagerie (1969)

An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her dreams of what life should be. ...

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Boom! (1968)

Explores the confrontation between the woman who has everything, including emptiness, and a penniless poet who has nothing but the ability to fill a wealthy woman's needs. ...

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Hilsen fra Bertha (1968)

A prostitute suffers schitzoid dillusions while grasping on to her past loves. She is stricken with "acquired" diseases. ...

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The Glass Menagerie (1966)

An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her dreams of what life should be. ...

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Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (1966)

A collection of ten vignettes by Tennessee Williams offering various viewpoints on life, love, and death. ...

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This Property Is Condemned (1966)

Owen Legate, a railroad official, comes to Dodson, Mississippi to shut down the local railway - the town's main income. But Owen unexpectedly finds love with Dodson's flirt and main attraction, Alva Starr. ...

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The Night of the Iguana (1964)

A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life. ...

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Period of Adjustment (1962)

A newlywed couple on their honeymoon visit friends who are having marital problems of their own. ...

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Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)

Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. Chance runs into trouble when he finds his ex-girlfriend, the daughter of the local ...

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The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)

Critics and the public say Karen Stone is too old -- as she approaches 50 -- for her role in a play she is about to take to Broadway. Her businessman husband, 20 years her senior, has been the angel for the play and gives her a way out: They are off to a h ...

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Summer and Smoke (1961)

In a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the randy boy next door. ...

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The Fugitive Kind (1960)

Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dying of cancer. Val is pursued by Carol Cutere, the enigmatic local tramp-of-good-family. ...

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Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)

The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth. ...

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but ...

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Three Plays by Tennessee Williams (1958)

A presentation of Tennessee Williams' three one-act plays: "Moony's Kid Don't Cry", "The Last of My Solid Gold Watches", and "This Property Is Condemned". ...

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Baby Doll (1956)

Archie Lee Meighan is a failing cotton gin owner who is married to Baby Doll, a 19-year old childlike beauty whose father arranged the marriage for financial reasons. As Archie awaits the arrival of Baby Doll's 20th birthday, the day that they are supposed ...

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The Rose Tattoo (1955)

A grieving widow embarks on a new romance when she discovers her late husband had been cheating on her. ...

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Senso (1954)

A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affair with an Austrian Lieutenant. ...

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A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

A disturbed, aging Southern belle moves in with her sister for solace — but being face-to-face with her brutish brother-in-law accelerates her downward spiral. ...

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The Glass Menagerie (1950)

An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her dreams of what life should be. ...

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Movies Starring Tennessee Williams (8)

Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation (2021)

The parallel lives of writer Truman Capote (1924-84) and playwright Tennessee Williams (1911-83): two friends, two geniuses who, while creating sublime works, were haunted by the ghosts of the past, the shadow of constant doubt, the demon of addictions and ...

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And the Oscar Goes To... (2014)

The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the indu ...

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Beautiful Darling (2010)

James Rasin's documentary "Beautiful Darling" honors American Transgender actress and best-known Warhol Superstar, Candy Darling, and her all-too-brief life and career, with a combination of current and vintage interview material, rarely seen archival phot ...

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The Yellow Bird (2002)

A young girl escapes the boredom of a small town existence in the 1930s. ...

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Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage (1994)

A study of Tennessee Williams's life and work as a whole, ranging from his youth in Mississippi and in St. Louis to success and acclaim, followed by the final difficult years. Includes some of the most celebrated scenes from film adaptations of Williams' w ...

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Tennessee Williams' South (1973)

The brutes and the belles. The gadflies and the good ol' boys. The taboos and the profound truths. They're all part of a tennessee state of mind -- a realm of places, personalities and ideas. Williams is front and center for this exploration, reading from ...

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The Rose Tattoo (1955)

A grieving widow embarks on a new romance when she discovers her late husband had been cheating on her. ...

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The Screen Director (1951)

A documentary short film depicting the work of the motion picture director. An anonymous director is shown preparing the various aspects of a film for production, meeting with the writer and producer, approving wardrobe and set design, rehearsing scenes wi ...

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