Tennessee Williams and Company: His Essential Screen Actors [NOOK Book]

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Overview

John DiLeo's Tennessee Williams and Company: His Essential Screen Actors examines the films based on the works Tennessee Williams. The focus is on the eleven actors who appear in more than one of the Williams movies, an unofficial stock company of repeat players. Several of these names, such as Marlon Brando and Geraldine Page, should come as no surprise, since they had performed roles by Williams on the stage. Others, such as Anna Magnani and Vivien Leigh, both foreign-born, could hardly have been foreseeable as brilliant interpreters of such a distinctly American writer. Also included are the two most famous screen-acting couples of Williams Hollywood heyday: Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, and Elizabeth Taylor and
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Overview

John DiLeo's Tennessee Williams and Company: His Essential Screen Actors examines the films based on the works Tennessee Williams. The focus is on the eleven actors who appear in more than one of the Williams movies, an unofficial stock company of repeat players. Several of these names, such as Marlon Brando and Geraldine Page, should come as no surprise, since they had performed roles by Williams on the stage. Others, such as Anna Magnani and Vivien Leigh, both foreign-born, could hardly have been foreseeable as brilliant interpreters of such a distinctly American writer. Also included are the two most famous screen-acting couples of Williams Hollywood heyday: Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, and Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. This critical look at these eleven actors, bonded by their sustained artistic and professional association with Williams. The results include some of the more remarkable performances in movie history, from Anna Magnani in The Rose Tattoo (1955) to Geraldine Page in Sweet Bird of Youth (1962). Everyone remembers how magnificent Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh are in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), but what about their second Williams appearances, Brando s in The Fugitive Kind (1960) and Leigh s in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)? Richard Burton is brilliant in The Night of the Iguana (1964), yet wretched in Boom (1968), while Elizabeth Taylor scores in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) but is just as awful in Boom as Burton is.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781601824257
  • Publisher: Hansen Publishing Group, LLC
  • Publication date: 10/28/2010
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 214
  • Sales rank: 665,392
  • File size: 1 MB

Meet the Author

John DiLeo's first book was And You Thought You Knew Classic Movies (St. Martin s, 1999), hailed by Pauline Kael as the smartest movie quiz book I've ever seen. His second book was 100 Great Film Performances You Should Remember But Probably Don't (Limelight Editions, 2002), which Adolph Green called a valuable and touching work. TCM host Robert Osborne said, in the Hollywood Reporter, that the book delightfully throws the spotlight on some remarkable film work, and the Washington Post s reaction was, Not only is this helpful criticism, but 100 Great Film Performances can serve as balm for anyone who has ever been disgruntled by the Academy s choices on Oscar night. Turner Classic Movies devoted a night of prime-time programming to films featured in John s third book, Screen Savers: 40 Remarkable Movies Awaiting Rediscovery (Hansen Publishing Group, 2007). Essays by him appear in two anthologies, City Secrets: Movies (2009) and City Secrets: Books (2009). John has been a contributing book reviewer for the Washington Post s Book World and currently writes DVD reviews for multiple publications. He frequently hosts classic-film series, appears on radio programs, lectures on cruise ships, conducts film-history seminars, and has been an annual participant in the Connecticut Film Festival (Danbury) and the Black Bear Film Festival (Milford, PA), where he interviewed Farley Granger (2005) and Arlene Dahl (2006). His website is johndileo.com and his blog is screensaversmovies.com. Born in 1961 in Brooklyn, John was raised on Long Island and graduated from Ithaca College in 1982 with a B.F.A.

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