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21 unusual facts about Tennessee Williams


A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur

A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur is a one-act play with two scenes by Tennessee Williams.

Anna Magnani

Magnani worked with Tennessee Williams again for the 1959 film, The Fugitive Kind (originally titled, Orpheus Descending) directed by Sidney Lumet, in which she played Lady Torrance and starred with Marlon Brando.

She played the widowed mother of a teenage daughter in Daniel Mann's 1955 film, The Rose Tattoo, based on the play by Tennessee Williams.

Anthony Ross

Born in New York City, he may be best remembered for being the first to play the character of "the Gentleman Caller" in the original 1944 production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie.

Chapala

In the late 1940s the famous American writer Tennessee Williams settled in Chapala for a while to work in the play called The Poker Night, which later became A Streetcar Named Desire.

Dane Witherspoon

At 19, he was the youngest student ever accepted by the American Conservatory Theater (ACT) in San Francisco, appearing in productions from Shakespeare to Tennessee Williams.

Douglas McKeown

He quickly moved on to other challenges, creating designs for many plays there, including sets and costumes for the Cocteau’s world premiere of Tennessee Williams’ Something Cloudy, Something Clear, and staging a number of productions, notably poet Robert Lowell’s adaptation of The Oresteia of Aeschylus.

Elysian Fields Avenue

Elysian Fields is also the street on which Tennessee Williams's play A Streetcar Named Desire is set.

Here Without Me

The story is about a family of three dreaming about their wishes, and was inspired by the play The Glass Menagerie, written by Tennessee Williams.

In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel

In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel is a 1969 play by Tennessee Williams.

Irène Vernal

1952: Tennessee Williams The Rose Tattoo, directed by Maurice Vaneau, Rideau de Bruxelles

Key West Heritage House Museum and Robert Frost Cottage

The Heritage House was the gathering place for some of the island's most famous celebrities, such as Robert Frost, Tennessee Williams, Thornton Wilder, Gloria Swanson and Sally Rand.

Manos Hatzidakis

His very first work was the tune for the song "Paper Moon" ("Χάρτινο το Φεγγαράκι"), from Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire staged by Karolos Koun's Art Theatre of Athens, a collaboration which continued for 15 years.

Remo Vinzens

In the following years he performed in stageplays of Bertolt Brecht, Friedrich Schiller, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams in all Europe.

Richard Alfieri

As an actor, he starred on Broadway in Tennessee Williams' Vieux Carre, and off-Broadway in Awake and Sing, and The Justice Box.

Something Cloudy, Something Clear

Something Cloudy, Something Clear is an autobiographical play by Tennessee Williams that was originally written in 1941 as a short play titled The Parade, or Approaching the End of a Summer, which was produced posthumously in Provincetown in 2006.

The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore

The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963) is a play written by Tennessee Williams.

Travis Flores

In 2010, during his work as an undergraduate student, he had the opportunity to work with Susan Batson on the Broadway workshops of the Tennessee Williams play, In Masks Outrageous and Austere.

Virginia Spencer Carr

Virginia Spencer Carr not only researched and wrote extensively about her subjects, but developed personal relationships with them - in particular Tennessee Williams and Paul Bowles.

Yvon d'Anjou

He original art found its way into the private collections of Tennessee Williams and Pierre Trudeau, and onto the walls of the Embassy of Canada in Washington, D.C. and London, and into the distinguished L'Annuaire de Art International.

Ziad Hamzeh

He directed and or produced over sixty major award winning stage productions, among them Roxy Ventola’s After The Bomb, Brecht’s Baal, Sam Shepard’s True West, Arrabel’s Car Cemetery, Hamlet, Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Tennessee Williams’ Vieux Carre, Nicholas Kazan’s Blood Moon, Poor Murderer, The Architect and Empress of Assyria, Cinders, Low Level Panic, and Dusa, Fish, Stas, and Vi.


Bryden MacDonald

MacDonald is also a theatre director, most noted for his productions of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw and Judith Thompson's Perfect Pie.

Fernando Siro

Siro was also sctive in the theatre, playing over 60 roles in his career, notably in Leo Tolstoi's Anna Karenina, Jean-Paul Sartre's The Respectful Prostitute, Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge, and Ken Ludwig's Lend Me a Tenor.

Grace McKeaney

She attended Northwestern University and starred as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams.

Inda Ledesma

Her theatre appearances in subsequent years included that of Lady Macbeth in a 1973 Teatro General San Martín production, and works by Carlos Gorostiza, Luigi Pirandello, Anton Chekhov (Three Sisters), Tennessee Williams (The Glass Menagerie), and as Mrs. Patrick Campbell in a long-running production of Jerome Kilty's Dear Liar (with Ernesto Bianco as George Bernard Shaw).

Irving Paul Lazar

In addition to Bogart, Lazar became the agent representing the top tier of celebrities, including Lauren Bacall, Truman Capote, Cher, Joan Collins, Noël Coward, Ira Gershwin, Cary Grant, Moss Hart, Ernest Hemingway, Gene Kelly, Madonna, Walter Matthau, Larry McMurtry, Vladimir Nabokov, Clifford Odets, Cole Porter, William Saroyan, Irwin Shaw, President Richard Nixon and Tennessee Williams.

Jocelyn Brando

Her next appearance on Broadway came two months after her younger brother began his role as Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire.

Kimon Friar

The plays produced there were primarily from the works of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Lillian Hellman, and Archibald MacLeish.

Last Summer in the Hamptons

The film explores the dark underbelly of the family (with metaphorical help from Anton Chekhov, Aeschylus, and Tennessee Williams) as Oona attempts to attach herself to them and their theatrical endeavors as she seeks to leave Hollywood and embark on a stage career.

Laurel Holloman

She moved to New York City in early 1994 and appeared in stage productions such as Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, Carson McCullers' The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter at the Theatre for the New City.

Leopoldo María Panero

#The reference to "Dulce pájaro de juventud" (Sweet Bird of Youth, theatre play by Tennessee Williams, which was brought to film by Richard Brooks in 1962 and which tells how a bon viveur has to leave his hometown, after seducing the boss's daughter. Installed in Hollywood he will become the lover of an autumn star).

Nano Riantiarno

His credits with Teater Popular include Shakespeare's Macbeth, Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, Karel Čapek's The White Disease, and his own Doa Natal (Christmas Prayer).

Paul Almond

In addition to his television and film work, Almond has also produced and directed several plays on television by such authors as Henrik Ibsen, Tennessee Williams, William Shakespeare, as well as creating his own adaptations of works by Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, Henry James, Somerset Maugham, to name but a few.

Paul Thek

He formed a partnership with the set designer Peter Harvey, who would design for Balanchine and who introduced him to artists, composers and writers, among them Tennessee Williams.

Riad Ismat

Ismat has directed more than 15 theatrical productions, including interpretations of Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams and Frank Wedekind, as well as producing his own personal vision of The Arabian Nights.

Robert De Niro, Sr.

They surrounded themselves with an illustrious circle of friends, including writers Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, playwright Tennessee Williams, and the actress and famous Berlin dancer Valeska Gert.

Robert La Tourneaux

On stage, La Tourneaux appeared in a small role in a Broadway revival of The Merchant of Venice; he was slated to appear in the 1977 Broadway production of Tennessee WilliamsVieux Carré, but was dropped from the cast prior to the show’s opening.

Shopper's World

In addition to movies, in the 1950s the theater was the site of many live summer theater productions such as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie and George Abbott and John Cecil Holm's Three Men on a Horse.

Spoleto Festival USA

Since its inception, the Festival has presented over 100 international and U.S. premieres, notably Creve Coeur by Tennessee Williams and The American Clock by Arthur Miller.

Svetlana Nemolyaeva

Later, as Andrey Goncharov came to become the head of the theatre, she created several outstanding characters, notably Blanche in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire and the Mayoress Anna Andreevna in Nikolai Gogol’s Revizor.

The Hotel Carver

Later productions included the world premiere of Academy Award nominated Coal Miner's Daughter screenwriter Tom Rickman's play Balaam starring Academy Award nominee (A Patch of Blue) Elizabeth Hartman, the west coast premiere of Tennessee Williams' Kingdom of Earth, which was the retitled Broadway play The Seven Descents of Myrtle.

Tracy Middendorf

Middendorf won an Ovation Award for her interpretation of Alma in Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke at the Fountain Theater in 1999, and starred opposite Craig T. Nelson as Muriel McComber in the 1998 Lincoln Center production of Ah, Wilderness!.

Trisha Ray

Through her father's theatre, she got to study the works of Anton Chekhov, Bertolt Brecht, Rabindranath Tagore, Tennessee Williams, Oscar Wilde, Badal Sarkar at a very young age.