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The triple Oscar-winning 1955 film The Rose Tattoo stars a triumphant Anna Magnani, who acts her socks off as the Italian-extracted peasant widow Serafina Delle Rose, in this attractive screen version of Tennessee Williams’s 1951 […]
Director George Roy Hill’s engaging 1962 black and white comedy drama brings to the screen one of Tennessee Williams’s lesser-known plays, with a marriage under threat while the husband George Haverstick (Jim Hutton) tries to ‘readjust’ […]
‘With a guitar and a snakeskin jacket he drifted out of the rain… into the lives of these two women…’ Tennessee Williams’s second-level 1957 tragic play Orpheus Descending gets the extravagant full-monty emoting it needs […]
The making of Boom! is a comedy horror story of posh, intelligent people letting their hair down in public. With all the excesses and extravagancies of the Sixties, maybe it is meant to be funny, […]
Director Jose Quintero’s 1961 romantic drama is a highly intriguing film version of Tennessee Williams’s only novel, with Vivien Leigh enjoying herself as Mrs Stone, an ageing American actress staying in a magnificent apartment in Rome, […]
‘Tennessee Williams shocks you again as he transports you to a STRANGE, NEW BOLD WORLD!’ Tennessee Williams’s famous one-act play gets a glossy, starry stage-to-screen transfer in director Joseph L Mankiewicz’s 1959 movie. The heat […]
Co-producer/director Elia Kazan’s 1956 controversial movie version of the Tennessee Williams 1955 Broadway one-act play 27 Wagonloads of Cotton is clever, riveting and entertaining. Gaining notoriety in the title role that she was born for, […]