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“Three Players of a Summer Game” from The Collected Stories of Tennessee Williams by Tennessee Williams, © 1948 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“Portrait of a Girl in Glass” from The Collected Stories of Tennessee Williams by Tennessee Williams, © 1948 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“Rubio y Morena” from The Collected Stories of Tennessee Williams by Tennessee Williams, © 1954 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“The Night of the Iguana” from The Collected Stories of Tennessee Williams by Tennessee Williams, © 1954 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“Two on a party” from The Collected Stories of Tennessee Williams by Tennessee Williams, © 1954 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“The Man in the Overstuffed Chair [Preface]” from The Collected Stories of Tennessee Williams by Tennessee Williams, © 1980 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“The Catastrophe of Success” from The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, © 1945 by the University of the South and Edwin D Williams. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Excerpt from The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams, © 1961 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Excerpt from The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, © 1950 by Tennessee Williams. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Excerpt from The Rose Tattoo, © 1950 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Summer and Smoke from The Theater of Tennessee Williams, Vol. II by Tennessee Williams, © 1971 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Battle of Angels from The Theater of Tennessee Williams, Vol. III by Tennessee Williams, © 1945 by Tennessee Williams. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Suddenly Last Summer from The Theater of Tennessee Williams, Vol. III by Tennessee Williams, © 1971 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Period of Adjustment from The Theater of Tennessee Williams, Vol. IV by Tennessee Williams, copyright by Tennessee Williams, © 1972 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Sweet Bird of Youth from The Theater of Tennessee Williams, Vol. IV by Tennessee Williams, © 1972 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore from The Theater of Tennessee Williams, Vol. V by Tennessee Williams, © 1963, 1964 by Two Rivers Enterprises, Inc. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
The Two-Character Play from The Theater of Tennessee Williams, Vol. V by Tennessee Williams, © 1969, 1973 by Tennessee Williams. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Small Craft Warnings from The Theater of Tennessee Williams, Vol. V by Tennessee Williams, © 1970, 1972 by Tennessee Williams. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel from The Theater of Tennessee Williams, Vol. VII by Tennessee Williams, © 1981 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
The Gnadiges Fraulein from The Theater of Tennessee Williams, Vol. VII by Tennessee Williams, © 1981 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Clothes for a Summer Hotel from The Theater of Tennessee Williams, Vol. VIII by Tennessee Williams, © 1977, 1979 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
The Red Devil Battery Sign from The Theater of Tennessee Williams, Vol. VIII by Tennessee Williams, © 1977, 1979 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
“The One Exception” from The Traveling Companion and Other Plays by Tennessee Williams © 2008 by The University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Excerpt from Vieux Carre by Tennessee Williams, © 1977 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Excerpt from You Touched Me! by Tennessee Williams © 1942, 1947 by Tennessee Williams, Donald Windham, and Frieda Lawrence. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Excerpts from Notebooks by Tennessee Williams copyright © 2006 by the University of the South. Reprinted with permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc. for the University of the South. All rights reserved.
Excerpts from The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, © 1945, renewed 1973 the University of the South. Reprinted with permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc. for the University of the South. All rights reserved.
Excerpts from Memoirs by Tennessee Williams and John Waters, © 1975, renewed 2003 by the University of the South. Reprinted with permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc. for the University of the South. All rights reserved.
Excerpts from Moise and the World of Reason by Tennessee Williams, © 1975 by the University of the South. Reprinted with permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc. for the University of the South. All rights reserved.
Excerpts from unpublished material by Tennessee Williams, © 2013 by the University of the South. Reprinted with permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc. for the University of the South. All rights reserved.
Index
Page numbers listed correspond to the print edition of this book. You can use your device’s search function to locate particular terms in the text.
Page numbers in
italics
refer to illustrations.
Academy Awards, 232, 248, 249
acting:
Brando’s revolutionary style of, 135–36
Kazan’s influence on, 129–30
Actors Studio, 130, 211, 240, 254, 263, 657
n
Adams, Jim, 474
Adler, Stella, 236
Albee, Edward, 441
Albus, Joanna, 137
alcohol,
see
drinking
All About Eve
(film), 5
Allen, Fred, 220
All My Sons
(Miller), 129, 131
Alma Winemiller (char.), 73–74, 79, 81, 82, 95, 97,
98
, 99, 101, 103, 120, 122, 385
Alsop, Joseph, 167
Altman, Richard, 529
Alvaro (char.),
see
Mangiacavallo, Alvaro (char.)
Amanda (char.),
see
Wingfield, Amanda (char.)
American Academy of Arts and Letters:
Gold Medal for Drama awarded to TW by, 492
TW’s election to, 258, 567
American Blues
(Williams), 619
n
American in Paris, An
(film), 249
American Pastoral
(Roth), 64
Anderson, Maxwell, 135
Anderson, Robert, 262, 263
Ann-Margret, 596–97
“Answered Prayers” (Capote), 535
antiwar movement, 521
TW and, 524, 525, 526–28
art:
conformity and, 221
Miller on McCarthyism and, 665
n
redemption through,
see
redemption, TW’s quest for
TW’s self-cannibalization in service of, 288–89, 329–30, 371, 376, 377–78, 395, 415, 438, 447, 485–86, 564, 571, 601–2
Arteaga, Bob, 500
Arthur, Jean, 275
Ashley, Elizabeth, 243, 588–89
Atkinson, Brooks, 213, 214,
216
, 273, 301, 311, 328–29, 343, 369, 397
on
Camino Real
, 273, 277
retirement of, 417
on
Rose Tattoo
, 215, 223
Times Book Review
article of, 436
Times
essay on tragedy by, 392
TW’s letters to, 33–34, 153, 162, 163, 172–73, 215, 218, 223–25, 277–78, 311–12, 345, 378, 392, 416–17
Attica riots, 525
Auden, W. H., 174
Austen Riggs Center, 348, 350
Awake and Sing
(Odets), 342
Ayers, Lemuel, 272, 275, 314
B
(Campbell), 322
Baby Doll
(film), 245–46, 248, 253, 278, 281,
318
, 329, 379
Kazan and, 245–46, 317–20, 408
promotion of, 319–20,
321
reviews of, 320–21
Bachardy, Don, 324
Baddeley, Hermione, 238–39, 397
in
Milk Train
, 443–44,
445
, 454–55, 468, 662
n
Baden, Michael, on TW’s cause of death, 587–88
Baker, Carroll, 318,
318
Bang the Drum Slowly
(film), 557
Bankhead, Tallulah, 22, 317,
469
, 700
n
–701
n
in
Milk Train
revival, 467–72
in
Streetcar
, 317, 322–24,
323
Bar Bizarre
(D. Williams), 590
Barnes, Bill, 215, 544, 557, 599
as TW’s agent, 518–19, 545, 550, 553, 568
TW’s letters to, 520, 529, 534, 540, 549, 687
n
–88
n
Barnes, Clive, 530
Barnes Hospital, TW committed to, 497, 499–507
Barrault, Jean-Louis, 152
Barrymore, Diana,
398
death of, 397, 401, 687
n
on Kazan, 399–400
TW and, 395–96, 398–401, 687
n
Barter Theatre (Abingdon), 456, 461
Barton, Lee (pseud.), 532–33
Bastos, Milton L., 588
Battle of Angels
(Williams), 16–20, 41, 46, 94, 126, 281, 285, 329, 330–31, 335, 623
n
Boston reviews of, 26
Hopkins and, 22–25,
24
, 27
out-of-town closing of, 27–28, 553
public reaction to, 25, 26–27
quest for redemption in, 19–20, 96–97
Theatre Guild production of, 20, 22–27
TW on, 16, 23
see also
Fugitive Kind, The
(film);
Orpheus Descending
(Williams)
Baxley, Barbara, 271, 275
Beaumont, Hugh “Binkie,” 159, 160
Beautiful and the Dammed, The
(Fitzgerald), 561–62
Beckett, Samuel, 441, 442, 476, 479
Beebe, Lucius, 21
Bel Geddes, Barbara, 296, 308
Bell, Book and Candle
(van Druten), 212–14
Bella McCorkle (char.), 573, 575–78
Bennett, Michael, 549
Bentley, Eric, 273
Berghof, Herbert, 211
Bergman, Ingrid, 174
Berneis, Peter, 186–87
Bernstein, Leonard, 348
Bethel Methodist Home, 363
Bettis, Valerie, 275
Big Daddy Pollitt (char.), 285, 287, 292, 293–95, 305–7, 308
Bigelow, Paul, 111,
224
, 235, 639
n
, 672
n
and
Baby Doll
script, 246
on Merlo’s relationship with TW, 169
on Pancho’s relationship with TW, 110, 112
TW’s letters to, 22, 72, 85, 105, 193, 202, 263, 323, 367
“Big Time Operators, The” (Williams), 171–72
Blackie (char.), 443, 447
Blair, Betsy, 60
Blanche Dubois (char.),
see
Dubois, Blanche (char.)
Bloom, Claire, 550, 551,
552
, 553
Bloomgarden, Kermit, 128
Blumenstock, Mort, 187
bohemianism, TW on, 223–25
Bolt, Robert, 440
Bolton, Whitney, 371
Boom!
(film), 448, 482, 485, 700
n
Booth, Shirley, 276
Boss Finley (char.), 378–79, 394
Boston Globe
, 26, 551
Bowden, Charles, 362, 363, 473, 520, 539
as
Night of the Iguana
producer, 422–23, 424–25, 428, 431, 433, 435, 692
n
as
Slapstick Tragedy
producer, 474–75, 480, 495
Bowles, Paul,
170
, 275
TW’s letters to, 351, 369, 460, 474, 502, 507
Brando, Marlon,
149
, 150, 315
in audition for TW, 136–38
in
Fugitive Kind
, 339–41,
339
,
340
, 677
n
Kazan on, 135, 136
on Magnani, 339, 340–41
Magnani on, 678
n
Orpheus Descending
and, 337, 339
revolutionary acting style of, 135–36

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