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(Rader), 508
Tennessee Williams’ Letters to Donald Windham: 1940–1965
, 546–47, 598, 714
n
Tennessee Williams’ South
(film), 589
Teresa, Mother, 579
Terkel, Studs, 101, 717
n
Texas, University of, Harry Ransom Center at, 596
Thacher, Molly Day, 252,
274
, 304, 372, 465
Camino Real
and, 261–62, 263, 265, 273
Kazan’s reliance on critical judgment of, 262–63
Rose Tattoo
and, 183, 195, 198–99
Streetcar
and, 129
Sweet Bird of Youth
and, 378–79, 387, 388
TW’s correspondence with, 174, 263, 265
Theater of the Ridiculous, 476
Theatre Guild, 20, 22–27, 126, 623
n
Theatre Musicians Union, 218
This Is (An Entertainment)
(Williams), 592–93
“Three Players of a Summer Game” (Williams), 236, 284
Time
, 219, 321, 392, 402, 431, 439, 492, 530, 579
TW on cover of, 436–37
Timebends
(Miller), 251–52, 476
Time Is Ripe, The
(Odets), 1
Time of Your Life, The
(Saroyan), 4
Tiny Closet, The
(Inge), 412
Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams
(Leverich), xiii, xiv–xv, 56, 359
publication of, 601
St. Just and, xv, 599–600
“To Maria Britneva” (Williams), 279
Tom Jones
(film), 467
Tom Wingfield/Narrator (char.), 2–3,
7
, 12, 32, 52, 59–60, 65, 73, 88, 368–69, 578
Too Much, Too Soon
(Diana Barrymore), 397, 400
Torn, Rip, 514
Torrance, Lady (char.), 331–36
Town and Country
, 7
Tracy, Spencer, 425
Truck and Warehouse Theater (New York), 530
Truckline Café
(Anderson), 135
Tucker, Gary, 580
Twentieth Century Fox, 251
27 Wagons Full of Cotton
(Williams), 245
27 Wagons Full of Cotton: And Other One-Act Plays
(Williams), 69–70, 240
Two-Character Play, The
(Williams), 482, 483–85, 594, 598
see also
Out Cry
(Williams)
“Two on a Party” (Williams), 219, 221
Tynan, Kenneth, 105, 238–40,
287
, 343, 392, 477, 656
n
Sweet Bird of Youth
and, 393–94
TW’s letters to, 48, 393, 394, 446
Uecker, John, 580, 583–84, 585–87
Umberto (char.)
see
Mangiacavallo, Alvaro (char.)
Vaccaro, Marion,
419
, 420, 429, 457, 473–74, 483, 497, 502, 519, 651
n
, 691
n
TW’s letters to, 460, 466
“Valediction” (Williams), 361
Val Xavier (char.), 17–19, 25, 46, 94, 315, 331, 332–36, 337, 339–40, 677
n
in quest for redemption, 19–20, 96–97, 333–34
as TW’s surrogate, 329, 330
van Druten, John, 212
Van Fleet, Jo, 427
Van Gogh, Vincent, 29
Van Horne, Harriet, 250, 302, 594
Van Saher, Lilla, 396, 449, 483
Variety
, 23, 187, 308, 341, 438
Venable, Mrs. (char.), 356, 369
Edwina as model for, 357
Venice, TW in, 236
Vidal, Gore, 154,
154
, 156, 275, 522, 596, 711
n
on Edwina, 52, 157, 571
on homophobia, 222
on McCullers and TW, 106
St. Just and, 160–61, 597, 600
on St. Just’s relationship with TW, 251, 592
on
Streetcar
, 146, 222
on TW’s family as character prototypes, 35
TW’s letters to, 193
on TW’s psychoanalysis, 354
and TW’s relationship with Merlo, 418
on TW’s transformation of personal experience into drama, 94
on TW’s writing habits, 35
on Walter Dakin, 41, 42
Vienna,
Red Devil Battery Sign
in, 553–55
Vieux Carré
(Williams), 535, 555–56, 558–60
New York failure of, 559–60
revivals of, 582
successful London production of, 560
Village Voice
, 533
Visconti, Luchino, 174
Viva Zapata!
(film), 198
Vizzard, Jack, 226, 227, 230
Voglis, Vass, 585–86, 587
Vogue
, 7, 66,
234
Von Stein, William G., 462, 502
Waiting for Godot
(Beckett), 441
Waiting for Lefty
(Odets), 22, 130, 644
n
Wald, Jerry, 187
Walker, Hiram, 555
Wallace, Mike, TW’s interview with, 354–55
Wallach, Eli, 566
Baby Doll
and, 318
Camino Real
and, 254, 267, 269, 271, 275
Rose Tattoo
and,
206
, 211, 212, 216
Walston, Ray, 163–64
Waltz of the Toreadors, The
(Anouilh), 342
Warner, Jack, 169, 187, 228
Warner Brothers, 173–74, 185, 186, 227, 230, 320
Warren, Robert Penn, 567
Washington Confidential
, 222–23
Washington Post
, 590
Watts, Richard, Jr., 273, 274, 311
Wayne, Chance (char.), 182, 375–76, 378–79
self-destructiveness of, 379, 383, 391, 392
as surrogate for both TW and Merlo, 380–81, 383
“We Are Dissenters Now” (Williams), 526
Webster, Margaret, 22, 23, 24, 27,
28
, 285
Weill, Kurt, 23, 348
West End (London), 476–77
What Makes Sammy Run?
(Schulberg), 187
“What’s Next on the Agenda, Mr. Williams?” (Williams), 503–4
Wherry, Kenneth, 222
Whiteside, Cassandra “Sandra” (char.), 19, 25
Whitman, Walt, 78, 94
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
(Albee), 441
Why Are We in Vietnam?
(Mailer), 527
“Why Do Homosexual Playwrights Hide Their Homosexuality?” (Barton), 532–33
Wilde, Oscar, xiii
Wilder, Thornton, 141, 194, 241, 468
Wild River
(film), 390, 410
Williams, Cornelius Coffin “CC,” 35,
37
,
57
, 293, 332, 632
n
courtship and marriage with Edwina, 43, 625
n
Dakin’s relationship with, 46, 344
death of, 343–45
drinking by, 43, 46, 49, 72, 78, 344, 354
Edwina’s sexual rejection of, 44
emotional coldness of, 41, 48
fun-loving character of, 43
as model for “Cornelius McCorkle,” 573, 575
protracted absences of, 36, 59
Rose and, 359
as traveling salesman, 41
TW on, 40, 48, 49
TW’s relationship with, 46, 48–49, 56, 78, 343–44
TW’s revised view of, 352–55
violent temper of, 45–46, 56
warfare between Edwina and, 43–44, 48, 49, 56, 575
womanizing of, 44, 78, 204
youthful rebelliousness of, 40–41
Williams, Dakin, 35, 42, 219, 223, 320, 472, 492,
576
CC’s relationship with, 46
in decision to bury TW in St. Louis, 589–91
Diana Barrymore’s letters to, 398, 399–400
on Edwina, 51, 53, 56
on Glavin’s relationship with TW, 494, 495
Illinois senatorial bid of, 500, 506, 575
on parents’ relationship, 44
power of attorney of, 517–18
sexual repression of, 54
TW biography written by, 589–90
and TW’s Barnes Hospital commitment, 499, 500–502, 504
and TW’s conversion to Catholicism, 491
TW’s demonizing of, 502, 515, 519
TW’s letters to, 466, 472, 502–3
and TW’s relationship with Pancho, 110–11
and TW’s sixties depression, 483, 494, 497
in TW’s will, 590–91
Williams, Edwina Dakin, 35,
38
,
57
, 72, 104, 219,
220
, 276, 326, 336, 472, 576, 653
n
on CC’s relationship with TW, 48
CC’s relationship with,
see
Williams, Cornelius Coffin “CC”
on CC’s temper, 45–46
children as focus of, 44, 55
death of, 356, 571
father’s relationship with, 188–89
garrulousness of, 51
Glass Menagerie
and, 52–53, 627
n
half of
Glass Menagerie
royalties given to, 62–63, 344
In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel
and, 492
insensitivity of, 41, 42–43
memoir of, 38, 354, 359
mental breakdown of, 330, 627–28
n
as model for Amanda, 156–57, 355–56
as model for Mrs. Venable, 357
physical contact avoided by, 53
pretended gaiety of, 51–522
puritanism of, 43, 53, 56, 74, 77–78, 88, 140, 204, 223
and Rose’s lobotomy, 58, 356, 357, 359, 361–62, 681
n
–82
n
on St. Louis homes, 38
sexual hysteria of, 44, 53, 58, 74, 77, 78, 204
as snob, 38
at
Streetcar
opening, 140
TW on, 42–43, 53–54, 55
and TW’s Barnes Hospital commitment, 499–500
and TW’s fame, 67
TW’s letters to, 363–65, 457, 466, 619
n
, 709
n
TW’s relationship with, 56
TW’s revised view of, 355–56
and TW’s sixties depression, 483
Vidal on, 52, 157
writing career forced on TW by, 56
Williams, Isabel, 344
Williams, Isabel Coffin, 38, 40
Williams, Rose, 35,
46
, 53, 233,
364
CC and, 359
deterioration of, 330
Eastman as co-trustee for, 592, 595
in Farmington State Hospital, 54, 58, 359, 360–61, 362, 716
n
glass animal collection of, 37–38
lobotomy of, 58, 59, 72, 76, 356, 357, 359, 361–62, 366, 367, 544, 681
n
–82
n
mental illness of, 54, 57–58, 75, 78, 121, 359–60, 653
n
as model for Laura, 54, 367–69
as model for many of TW’s characters, 367, 683
n
, 716
n
St. Just as co-trustee for, 161, 591, 592, 594
sexual repression of, 54, 58, 78, 204, 366
shock treatments of, 362
TW on, 36–38, 363–65, 367
TW’s devotion to, 365, 369, 683
n
TW’s guilt toward, 357, 365, 366, 367–68, 401, 544, 564
TW’s visits to, 363–64, 367
TW’s will and, 591
TW’s youthful callousness toward, 365–66
Williams, Tennessee,
17
,
50
,
76
,
84
,
102
,
108
,
142
,
149
,
154
,
161
,
177
,
189
,
213
,
220
,
224
,
234
,
260
,
287
,
327
,
406
,
419
,
450
,
469
,
493
,
499
,
510
,
524
,
536
,
542
,
575
,
576
,
581
artistic vanity of, 409
automobile accident of, 235–36
awards and honors of, 150, 160, 258, 492, 554, 567
burial at sea desired by, 589

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