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Stopped Rocking and Other Screenplays
Four film scripts deal with a young male hustler, life in a mental hospital, debutante society in the 1920s, and a St. Louis schoolteacher.
- GenresDrama
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First published August 1, 1984
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Tennessee Williams
754 books3,689 followersThomas Lanier Williams III, better known by the nickname Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright of the twentieth century who received many of the top theatrical awards for his work. He moved to New Orleans in 1939 and changed his name to "Tennessee," the state of his father's birth.
Raised in St. Louis, Missouri, after years of obscurity, at age 33 he became famous with the success of The Glass Menagerie (1944) in New York City. This play closely reflected his own unhappy family background. It was the first of a string of successes, including A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), and The Night of the Iguana (1961). With his later work, he attempted a new style that did not appeal to audiences. His drama A Streetcar Named Desire is often numbered on short lists of the finest American plays of the 20th century, alongside Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.
Much of Williams' most acclaimed work has been adapted for the cinema. He also wrote short stories, poetry, essays and a volume of memoirs. In 1979, four years before his death, Williams was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
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Raised in St. Louis, Missouri, after years of obscurity, at age 33 he became famous with the success of The Glass Menagerie (1944) in New York City. This play closely reflected his own unhappy family background. It was the first of a string of successes, including A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), Sweet Bird of Youth (1959), and The Night of the Iguana (1961). With his later work, he attempted a new style that did not appeal to audiences. His drama A Streetcar Named Desire is often numbered on short lists of the finest American plays of the 20th century, alongside Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.
Much of Williams' most acclaimed work has been adapted for the cinema. He also wrote short stories, poetry, essays and a volume of memoirs. In 1979, four years before his death, Williams was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
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May 30, 2024
Thumbs up for so much representation of women in or have been in sanitariums. That was a tough, nice surprise.
February 26, 2008
Tenn Williams is my favorite playwright and I consider him one of the most formidable and astute minds ever to exist. This book contains a few screenplays he wrote and it was interesting to see Williams attempt to transcend mediums. These screenplays are more fluid and interpretative, unlike his plays (which were much more "direct"). I don't think these had the same power as some of his other works, but as one of them is currently in production, I'd be interested to see how the director and cast bring it to life and jump the hurdles of poor writing that bubbles up here and there. (Ach, what a douche-baggy thing for me to say...that Williams was capable of some poor writing here and there.)
June 18, 2012
GiveThese Tennessee Williams' plays were a geat read also very interesing. I enjoyed reading TW earlier works including Loss of a Teardrop Earring. Which was one of my favorite plays. So I give this book 2 thumbs up. And I would recommend anyone to anyone read it, especially anyone who is a huge fan of Tennessee Williams. He was the very best in playwrites. :)
May 13, 2014
I loved reading the screenplay format but I didn't love the characters of the stories.
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