Tennessee Williams
Author
Language
English
Description
Menagerie was Williams' first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our preeminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, the play has been the bravura piece for great actresses from Jessica Tandy to Joanne Woodward, and it is studied and performed in classrooms and theaters around the world. A new introduction by prominent Williams...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (86 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The brilliant work, personal struggles, and cultural impact of iconic American writers Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams explodes onto the screen in this innovative dual-portrait documentary. Filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland masterfully collages a wealth of archival material, including dishy talk show appearances with Dick Cavett and David Frost, with clips from some of the duo’s most memorable movie adaptations: A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat...
4) Plays
Author
Series
Library of America volume 119-120
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
2 v. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Signet book volume 917
Language
English
Description
A repressed widow visits her sister in New Orleans and is abused and eventually driven mad by her brother-in-law.
Author
Publisher
Dramatists Play Service
Pub. Date
[1992]
Physical Desc
72 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Sometime actor and full-time male hustler Chance Wayne returns to the Gulf Coast town of St. Cloud in an attempt to retrieve his lost innocence by reuniting with his high school girlfriend, Heavenly Finley. But Chance arrives there with his current employer, the drug-addicted, over-the- hill movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, who uses Chance, teaches him to use others, and doesn't intend to let him go. Chance learns that when he left St. Cloud years...
9) Memoirs
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1048
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
xix, 274 p., [64] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (122 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in the French Quarter of New Orleans during the restless years following WWII, this is a story of Blanche DuBois, a fragile and neurotic woman on a desperate prowl for someplace in the world to call her own. An uncensored version of the story of a repressed widow who visits her sister in New Orleans and is raped and driven mad by her brother-in-law.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000], p1959
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + pamphlet (4 p.)
Language
English
Description
A young woman is driven insane after witnessing her cousin's murder by cannibals. The neurosurgeon who tries to help her must also confront her aunt about her involvment in the death.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
After being exiled from her hometown of Auriol, Mississippi for seducing a seventeen-year-old boy at the school where she taught English, Blanche DuBois arrives unexpectedly at the New Orleans home of her pregnant sister Stella Kowalski and her Stella's husband Stanley. Stanley, both repulsed and attracted to Blanche, discovers that she has mortgaged property left to both sisters and spent all the money whereby he sets about discovering everything...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Widescreen and Full screen on dual sided disc.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A story of a deception which is destroying a patriarchal Southern family as its' members gather for the imminent demise of their "Big Daddy."
16) The rose tattoo
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2004, c1955
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 116 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Serafina is a Sicillian woman who now lives in the American South. She is mourning the death of her beloved husband, constantly telling herself stories of their time together. Her fragile, emotional existence is shattered when she discovers that her husband had been having an affair. Luckily, Serafina meets truck driver Mangiacavello and their tentative romance may help her through this troubling time.