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Streetcar
and, 135–38, 141–43, 145,
146
,
228
, 249
TW on, 304–5
Bray, William Robert, 227, 721
n
Breen, Joseph Ignatius, 225, 227, 230
Breen office:
Glass Menagerie
and, 225–26
Streetcar
and, 226–29, 230
Brick (char., “Three Players of a Summer Game”), 236–37
see also
Pollitt, Brick (char.)
Brimberg, Shirley (Shirley Clarke), 92–93
Britnev, Alexander, 158
Britnev, Vladimir, 158
Britneva, Maria,
see
St. Just, Maria
Britneva, Mary, 158
Brody, Eugene, 346–47
Brooks, Louise, 394
Brooks, Stella, 123, 124
Brooks Atkinson Theatre (New York), 472
Brown, Andreas, 502
and publication of
Tom
, xv, 599–600
TW’s letters to, 453–54
Brown, Blair, 557
Brown, Pamela, 133
Brownlow, Margaret, 43
Brustein, Robert, 477, 547, 567, 598, 714
n
Buchanan, John (char.), 79, 94, 97, 103, 122
Bucknall, Charles Herbert, 159
Bungakuza Theatre Company, 493
Burton, Richard, 440, 466
Bus Stop
(Inge), 342, 406
Caffe Cino, 477
Caldwell, Zoe, 475, 480, 481,
481
, 702
n
Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis, 589, 591
Camino Real
(Williams), 124–25, 245, 255–62,
270
, 279, 281, 387, 509
closing of, 277
Kazan and, 253, 254, 256, 257, 259–74
Kazan’s
Times
essay on, 272
New Haven tryout of, 272
as paean to nonconformity, 264–65
praise for, 274, 275–76, 277
rehearsals for, 267–72
reviews of, 273–75
rewriting of, 263–67, 269
Thacher and, 261–62, 263, 265
TW on, 256, 667
n
as TW’s emotional autobiography, 254, 255, 263, 269
Campbell, Sandy, 112–13, 322
Capote, Truman,
154
, 163, 174, 441, 572–73
on St. Just, 161–62
on TW’s physical decline, 535
Caretaker, The
(Pinter), 441–42
Carroll, Charles, 593
Carroll, Robert,
536
TW on, 541–42
TW’s bequest to, 544
TW’s relationship with, 535–42, 544, 568
“Carrousel Tune” (Williams), 257
Carter, Jimmy, 567
Cassandra “Sandra” Whiteside (char.), 19, 25
Cassidy, Claudia, 12–13, 408, 409, 432–33
“Catastrophe of Success, The” (Williams), 68
Catharine Holly (char.), 356, 357,
359
, 367, 369, 398, 420
Cathedral of St. John the Divine (New York), antiwar fund-raiser at, 526, 527–28
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
(film), 326, 372
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
(Williams), 94, 162, 236, 284, 285, 287–89, 292–94,
303
,
309
, 329, 398
as battle between self-destruction and creativity, 285
Broadway opening of, 310–11
financial success of, 312
Kazan and, 291–92, 294–96, 302–8, 312, 673
n
Pulitzer Prize awarded to, 312
reviews of, 311
rewriting of, 294–97, 300, 302–10
tryouts of, 308
two endings of, 308–10, 311–12, 313, 408–9
TW on, 287–88
Cavett, Dick, 160, 554
Chance Wayne (char.),
see
Wayne, Chance (char.)
Channing, Carol, 217
Chapman, John, 273
Charlie McCorkle (char.), 575–77
“Chart of Anatomy” (Williams),
see
Summer and Smoke
(Williams)
Chatterton, Thomas, 586
Chekhov, Anton, 1, 25, 34, 65
Chicago Tribune
, 12–13, 408, 432–33
China, People’s Republic of, 219
Christian Science Monitor
, 551–52
Christ on a Cross
(Williams), 571,
572
Christopher Flanders (char.), 444–49, 468–69
Circle in the Square (New York), 385, 650
n
Clarke, Shirley (Shirley Brimberg), 92–93
Clarksdale, Miss., Williams family in, 36
Clarksdale Register
, 27
Clift, Montgomery, 151–52
Closing Time
(Williams), 451
Clothes for a Summer Hotel: A Ghost Play
(Williams),
464
, 560–64, 593
closing of, 567
reviews of, 560, 563, 564, 566–67, 568, 571
Clurman, Harold, 136, 199, 211, 236, 439, 476, 482, 492, 521, 571
Orpheus Descending
and, 342
Coconut Grove Playhouse (Miami), 317, 322–23, 386
Cocteau, Jean, 152
Cold War, 219
Come Back, Little Sheba
(Inge), 210, 211
Commonweal
, 455
Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service in Dramatic Arts, 579
Communism, 222
HUAC and, 248, 249
Kazan and, 243, 248–49, 251–53
U.S. obsession with, 219–20, 248–49
Confessional
(Williams),
see
Small Craft Warnings
(Williams)
conformity, in 1950s, 220–21, 225, 255
Congdon, Tom, 545–46
Conjure Man (char.), 20, 622
n
Cooch Behar, Maharaja of, 238, 239
Cornelius (char.,
You Touched Me!
), 75, 77
Cornelius McCorkle (char.,
A House Not Meant to Stand
), 573–75, 577
Cornell, Katharine, 68, 110, 114
Corsaro, Frank, 432
Night of the Iguana
and, 411–13, 415, 416, 422–24, 426–28, 435, 436, 437, 438
“Cortege” (Williams), 35, 48, 282–83
Cort Theatre (New York), 564
Costly Performances: Tennessee Williams: The Last Stage
(Smith), 593
counterculture, 521
TW’s encounters with, 522–28
Country Girl, The
(Odets), 210
Coward, Noël, 476, 477
Crane, Hart, 65, 66
Crawford, Cheryl, 128,
260
, 290, 296, 365, 465, 657
n
as
Camino Real
producer, 260, 265
as
Period of Adjustment
producer, 406
as
Rose Tattoo
producer, 198, 200, 201–2, 203, 217
as
Sweet Bird of Youth
producer, 385, 386, 399
TW’s break with, 422
TW’s letters to, 201–2, 203, 210, 217, 222, 223, 248, 289, 342, 385, 422
Crawford, Joan, 22
Creature (monkey), 457, 465–66
“Cried the Fox” (Williams), 583
Cronyn, Hume, 133, 588
Crowther, Bosley, 341
Cukor, George, 184–85
Curtis, Simon, 597
Daily Express
(London), 549
Dakin, Rosina, 35,
50
death of, 72
emotional reserve of, 41
Dakin, Walter, 35, 43,
50
, 67, 78,
118
, 292
death of, 314
Edwina and, 188–89
Edwina’s home shared by, 72, 188
in Key West, 116–17, 188–89, 283–84, 414
Merlo and, 188–89, 190, 414
possible homosexuality of, 41–42
rich vocabulary of, 49–51
TW’s relationship with, 116–18
Dalí, Salvador, 166
Dalrymple, Jean, 322
Dance of Death
(Strindberg), 495, 705
n
Darling, Candy, 522–53
Daughters of the American Revolution, 38
David Frost Show
, TW’s coming-out on, 521, 545
Davis, Bette:
in
Night of the Iguana
, 425–29,
430
, 433–36, 437–38
TW’s letters to, 434, 435–36, 437
“Death Is High” (Williams), 636
n
Death of a Salesman
(Miller), 65, 173, 194, 395
de Havilland, Olivia, 221
de Kooning, Willem, 275
Dellinger, David, 525
De Niro, Robert, 557
“Desire and the Black Masseur” (Williams), 73
dissent, suppression of, 254, 255, 258
Donne, John, 26
Doriden, 496, 501, 505
Doubleday, 545–46
Douglas, Mitch:
on St. Just, 593
as TW’s agent, 568–71
TW’s correspondence with, 568, 569–71
Dowling, Eddie:
Glass Menagerie
and, 2–5,
7
, 8–9, 12–16, 32, 60–61, 126, 434, 643
on Laurette Taylor, 4, 32
TW’s relationship with, 4, 12
Dowling, Ray, 14–15
drama:
Miller on McCarthyism and, 665
n
1960s revolution in, 475–77
postwar shift in, 64–65
TW as creator of new style of, 65–67
as TW’s chosen genre, 34, 621–22
n
see also
acting
drinking:
by CC Williams, 43, 46, 49, 72, 78, 344, 354
by Merlo, 328, 404–5
by Pancho, 71
by Taylor, 3–4, 7–8, 15, 621
n
by TW, 43, 46, 49, 72, 78, 344, 354
drugs,
see
prescription drugs
Dubois, Blanche (char.), 118–22, 398, 399
Kazan on, 146
TW on, 95, 121
as TW’s alter ego, 121, 122, 143
Dunnock, Mildred,
445
Dunphy, Jack, 174
Eastman, John, as co-trustee of Rose Williams Trust, 592, 595, 596, 601
Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense
(A. Freud), 634
n
Elavil, 474
Elkins, Hillard, 547, 550–51
Emmie (char.), 75, 77
“Enemy: Time, The” (Williams),
see
Sweet Bird of Youth
(Williams)
English Theatre (Vienna), 553–55
“Epitaph for Tennessee Williams” (Mamet), 715
Esmeralda (char.), 264–65, 269, 271
Esquire
, 477, 535
Europe:
TW’s trips to, 151–57, 198–203, 280–82, 373–74, 420, 459–60, 649
n
see also
Rome
Evans, Edith, 159–60
Evans, Oliver, 95–96, 100, 221, 235, 283, 519, 651
n
on Merlo, 169
TW’s letters to, 70–71, 153–54, 201, 221, 246, 351, 360, 377, 429, 494, 509–10, 540, 711
n
Evening with Nichols and May, An
, 441, 695
n
Evergreen Review
, 522, 526
Everlasting Ticket, The
(Williams), 573
Eyre, Richard, 158, 597
Eyre de Lanux, Elizabeth, 176–77
“Faint as Leaf Shadow” (Williams), 175
Farmington State Hospital, 54, 58, 359, 360–61, 362, 681
n
–82
n
, 716
n
Farther Off from Heaven
(Inge), 406
Faulk, Maxine (char.), 414, 425, 439–40
Faulkner, Henry, 544
Federal Theatre Project, 262
Feldman, Charles, 185, 187
Festival of Two Worlds (Spoleto), 412, 416, 442
Field, Henry, 474
“Final Day of Your Life, The” (Williams), 462
Finley, Boss (char.), 378–79, 394
Fitelson, Bill, 128
Fitzgerald, F. Scott:
as character in
Clothes for a Summer Hotel
, 560, 561, 562–64,
564
TW’s identification with, 561
Zelda’s life appropriated in fiction of, 561
Fitzgerald, Zelda, 561–62
as character in
Clothes for a Summer Hotel
, 560, 561, 562–64,
564
Five O’Clock Angel
(St. Just), xiii, 301, 514, 588, 592, 594
Flanagan, Hallie, 262
Flanders, Christopher (char.), 444–49, 468–69
Flight into Egypt
(Tabori), 253
Flora Goforth (char.), 442, 444–48, 467–68, 662
n
Foote, Horton, 14, 15
TW’s letters to, 31, 621
n
Ford, Ruth, 471, 522
Foresman, Margaret, 491, 497

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