Suddenly, Last Summer (1993) starring Maggie Smith and Natasha Richardson (Complete)
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- This fantastic 1993 BBC production (aired on PBS in the US) adheres closer to the original Tennessee Williams text than does the 1959 feature with Elizabeth Taylor and Katherine Hepburn. Featuring Natasha Richardson, Maggie Smith, Rob Lowe and Richard E. Grant.
I'm so pleased to see so many still engaged in this play I posted 12 years ago on a lark. I don't like seeing people argue about Dame Maggie vs. Kate the great! Both women are fantastic in the role. Hepburn is ICONOC, and Maggie does a fantastic job as well. She wasn't able to make the legendary entrance that Hepburn did, but her LEAPING from her wheelchair makes up for it! Both performances are LEGEND. Both women are!
Wonderful❤ Thank you so much for sharing this❤
Maggie Smith is phenomenal. From Lady Violet of Downton Abbey to Violet Venable she is a force to be reckoned with!
AMEN!! I met her once in New York City! What an Amazing Woman. Bob.
Violet Venable’s cry at the end is ICONIC!
Maggie Smith is the Best of the Best!
Fabulous acting from Maggie Smith and Natasha Richardson, superb performances
from all.
Thank you for posting
I beg to differ, the role belonged to Taylor, Hepburn, and M Clift with kudos to M Mc Cambridge
Thank you for enjoying it!
@CountplatoI agree with you.
Several years ago , I saw the 1959 version of this movie with Katherine Hepburn and Elizabeth
Taylor. It was well done yet as disturbing as this . However, in my opinion , it just cannot compare in story or performance to this latest version with Maggie Smith and Natasha Richardson, The
writing is amazing and their delivery of such dark irony was heart wrenching . It validates the
greatness of the original writer - Tennessee Williams.
Idk. I liked Hepburn better. She was more frightening than this hysterical woman, and Taylor was equally magnificent because she was an incredibly beautiful contrast. Taylor looked much more fragile playing this tiny turtle of a girl surrounded by carnivorous birds. Besides Williams was a Southern writer,,telling an overheated tale of claustrophobic families devouring each other with vicious self deceiving lies. Nothing more carnivorous than a plantation where wealth has inbred indolence and generations of slavery! The Brits may lend a polished performance but this is a sweaty tropical tale. It is meant to feel clammy and a touch sweetly sickening like the scent of certain fleshy orchids. Visit the French Quarter in New Orleans in August.
A mesmerizing production of an utterly fascinating play that often seems like a poetic nightmare. Superb lighting and setting of mood. Magnificent acting from all. People like to squawk that this play is not one of Tennessee's best, blah, blah, etc...That may be true, but it's obvious we are in the hands of a genius, imaginative writer. I find it quite hypnotic--"total theatre," as one critic said. Such exquisite language! Williams won a lot of awards in his lifetime, but he definitely should have also won the Nobel Prize for his body of work--no question.
Outstanding!
Thank-you for this television adaptation of the classic Tennessee Williams play. 📺
Such a dark and disturbing play by Williams. Maggie Smith is superb playing this absolutely monstrous woman, though she manages to find some vulnerability in the heart of her too. I even felt sorry for her at times. Quite an acting achievement. Great performance from Natasha Richardson too.
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Image the possibilites if Natasha Richardson had been taken from us so early in her life. Great performances from all. Thanks for this post.
I was looking for plays at a used book store and found a great book of plays by Tennessee Williams 1957-1980. Suddenly, Last Summer was the second play, and I just finished it. I really enjoyed it.
Thanks for uploading this.
Thanks for taking the time.
Dear Natasha. What a powerful performance. What a loss of a talent barely uncovered. The superb Maggie Smith. So moving. They did this play justice which is saying a good deal.
Thank you for posting!
27k views on UA-cam, but a guy getting hit in the nuts will garner millions. How did culture get so lost?
Maggie Smith doing a Southern accent?! DIVINE 🏆
No. She is trying to do one.
@@chopin65 ...struggling to do one!
British people are very good at Southern accents. My uncle, who was born and raised in Alabama, was even mistaken by Brits as being one of them because of his particular Southern accent.
@@TheaddoraCould u explain. A Brit who is a born n bred Southern American was thought a Brit due to his Southern accent? I do not understand.
@@LadyBug1967 I did not say my uncle was born and bred in Britain. I said he was born and raised in Alabama but he had a British type accent!!
Incredible performances by Natasha Richardson and Maggie Smith. Riveting.
I had to watch the 1959 film version, a couple more times to get a better understanding of what was happening. The censors really limited what could actually be filmed and at times hampered this production. I believe that if it hadn’t been for their interference, more would have been filmed - - rather than just talked about (for instance, shown how Sebastian’s mother looked, when she accompanied her son on those summer vacations). This version didn’t show that Sebastian’s book of poems, was actually completely blank pages. I did like this version too. I hadn’t known of its existence, until I was searching for the movie.
"I came out in the French Quarter years before I came out in the Garden District." Tennessee speaks!
"Cut that story out of her head!" what a great Maggie Smith moment!
Great text! Great performances! Great Tennessee Williams!
Unpopular opinion, I prefer the 1959 film with Katherine Hepburn, and Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift. I know this is closer to the original Tennessee William's play but, I like the haunted performance of Katherine Hepburn along with the dramatic film music, and Elizabeth Taylor performance towards the end of the film.
That’s not an unpopular opinion at all everyone prefers that film over this
@@masongraves4228 Thank you, very much glad to know I'm not alone.
I can't help but think Kathrine Hepburn must have felt a bit vindicated if she saw Maggie Smith fail so terribly at her accent. Hepburn had been approached to do Travels With My Aunt but she felt the script was mediocre, so she rewrote it. The studio then rewrote the script she had made and gave the role to Maggie Smith, who got nominated for an Academy Award for it. She didn't even get mentioned for the work she did, as she wasn't in the Screen Writer's Guild. I love Maggie Smith, but she shouldn't have been cast in this.
I think the black and white film added to the creepiness of the 1959 film. Also, back then, unjustified lobotomies were far more of a real life horror. By 1993 everyone had seen One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest and heard about Rosemary Kennedy, along with other ghastly stories about the results of such a sketchy operation. Patients' rights had also become a more powerful force, and the whole lobotomy trend seemed rather an ancient nightmare.
The doctor and Venable are unconvincing from the beginning. I doubt that I will get through this.
"Let's just say that he was interested in sea turtles" Well, that is one way of putting it...
Love this and the earlier 1959 version. 1959 was slightly more edgy and disturbing, i think that was probably Hepburn's brilliant casting & contribution. Thank you for this. Anymore hidden US/BBC gems?
Such a brilliant cast
🏆 Rob Lowe is a fine actor. 🏆
By far, the best production. Maggie Smith's control is formidable. And Natasha finally conquered her tense jaw habit. Still, I kept seeing the images of the Hollywood version that acted out the rioting, yet this made sense of it.
Nope 59 is far superior to this
Maggie Smith is (always) amazing--TY
Natasha R, is brilliant in this. Her american accent is superb !💙
The acting is fantastic!
"A Perfect Day" followed by Tennessee Williams' "Suddenly Last Summer" with both Maggie Smith and my man Rob Lowe, just before Christmas, is, indeed, a perfect day.
Thank you 👏👏
Rob Lowe was LITERALLY outstanding in this!😂
@jmd26 This was a very good, beautifully designed production of this remarkably challenging play of Williams'. Fortunately It is included in the BBC DVD box set of the Maggie Smith Collection. But this posting gives the viewer a more than decent visual experience of the play. And at any event the reward with Williams is the rich use of language, the sad, searching lyricism which all the more effectively can explore tragic themes. These can be subtle or here, rather baroque, as good-naturedly commented upon by Gore Vidal
thanks to whom the play was brought so memorably to the screen whilst he did battle, patiently suffering the watchful eye of the censors. I think their can be little argument about
Hepburn and Smith. Television and film can probe different levels of meaning in adaptation. Hepburn's performance is inevitably enhanced by the 'opera' of film whereas
television is more intimate. And your'e quite right, both ladies are splendid. Am I right in thinking that Rob Lowe does himself some credit in this production ? He listens, he reacts,
doesn't hog the camera or bump into the furniture. And I think he may also give the impression that like a lot of Doctors with a professional interest in the mind, he knows exactly what's going on but pretends not to until the right people come to the conclusion themselves. Monty's Cliff's Doctor appears generally baffled by the discourse but perhaps that's because he's just that good. Thank you for the posting and thanks to a chance lark that led to it.
Both versions are great, and the acting is fantastic. Hard to choose between Hepburn and Smiths version, but considering that Maggie is British, I would call her performance the best. As has been said before: No one was better, at playing Kathrine Hepburn, than Kathrine Hepburn herself. Interesting, that Natacha, also is British, both playing Americans.
hmmm better for being British...???
I saw this with Elizabeth Taylor starring.
Love Maggie Smith. I had the opportunity to meet her once and she was so unassuming and kind. To me Elizabeth Taylpr was not a great actress, though a great beauty. Her voice was a bit annoying at times. Yes Montgomery Clift an mesmerising actor in everything he played.
It's hard to tell, because melodrama was the fashion in the 40s and 50s, as opposed to today's more natural style, so much acting of that era seems like overacting. I did really love her in Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe and an odd black comedy, directed by Peter Ustinof, called Hammersmith Is Out.
Yes, Taylor’s voice was rather inflexible and tended to shrillness, which is an awful handicap to an actress. I think that “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” was the only performance in which she managed to overcome this problem.
Superb cast !
The accents were distracting at first but I got over that quick enough. Excellent. Much better than the Hollywood version.
I agree, more faithful to the play.
Absolutely not this is nowhere the 1959 version that one was one of the best films ever this is solid however
@@randywhite3947 I agree that the '59 version was very good but this seems to flow whereas the '59 version seems a bit disjointed and choppy with the ending hurried and trite.
Loved it. The jungle garden is so big. Gore Vidal says they were restricted by the Motion Picture Production Code on the script for 1959 film. Was this filmed in Vaso-Vision with Vasoline on the lense ?
Really. So muddy
la actuacion de rob lowe es muy buena como siempre
Smith understood Williams well. The fragility of the cannibal, as is the shadow of the narcissist. All pain and weakness behind the monster. Hepburn could only do the monster mask.
I thought this was very good. Thank you, jmd26.
You're welcome!
Wonderful! I’m curious. Is this TW’s original version, or the 1957 version of it Gore Vidal adapted to get past the censors for the movie with Katherine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, and Montgomery Clift?
Magnificent!
Loved this❤
Shame about the poor quality of this video print here but overall much better than the movie. Being half an hour shorter tightened the tension, better acting all round except for the doctor, a sharper script made the plot clearer. Conceived as a play and better to leave the horrors of the ending to our imagination than show them. Smith was able to show two sides of the dragon, Hepburn only showed us one. Grant carved a niche for himself. First time I realized there is something special about Suddenly, Last Summer.
I wish they would broadcast this in HD at some point.
Such an outrageous play, and I long to see a version one day that injects a little more Joe Orton into proceedings. The final act, in particular, seems to cry out for that (but perhaps that is just me), In the opening scenes here, Maggie Smith seems to be wearing a massive poppadom on her head.
Rob Lowe played Dr. Sugar.
tremendous!
Bravo!
Lovely performances, but needs to be restored in HD. I like Maggie Smith, but I prefer Katherine Hepburn’s more restrained performance as Violet.
It really helps if you increase the picture quality to 360p-as high as it goes. Really sharpens it up
@@gloriamontgomery6900 thank you...
I think Cousin Sebastian is going to give me a nervous breakdown too.
Sebastian was a perfect example of a homosexual, one who lived without a face and without a voice, because he lived like a monster, he had to die like one, persecuted by an angry mob of people trying to rid the filth or the "evil" of the earth
Natasha's southern accent is good, tho😏
Hey but it doesn’t make sense that Sebastian would use his alluring female cousin as his “procurer” when the guys she would be “procuring” would be straight.
Sometimes, just getting them together in one place is half the battle
Her southern American accent is phenomenal. She pronounced one word differently “elixir” putting the emphasis on the syllables in an English way though, with a Southern American accent. It caught me off guard.
It wasn’t correct though, it was lovely. It seemed an eccentricity of the character. Perhaps, picked up on her “grand tour of Europe” as the young people of her generation would have taken, before the turn of the 19th century. When Violet Venable would have been a young, unmarried woman. Or, perhaps on an extended honeymoon with her husband, still young then, whom Sebastian resembled and she lost both of them, so recalls that other trip when ruminating on her travels with Sebastian.
The elixir of life that wasn’t available to save them, while yet, it sustains herself. Rather than a mispronounciation, it felt right and fitting with her character.
I didn’t have much interest in a remake of the movie, based on the play, a copy of a copy. Comparing rather than enjoying. Not after Katherine Hepburn’s and Elizabeth Taylor’s performances. However, it’s amazing so far that it stands alone, convincing of the characters as whole and original unto themselves. Never so much as rocking the rope bridge on which disbelief is suspended, as over a rocky precipice of the Encantadas.
Smith and Hepburn are neck and neck. Richardson is refusing to compete (even wisely paying homage to Taylor here and there)
Lowe is left in the dust by Clift.
This production haunted me so much as a (secretly) gay teen in Los Angeles.
Me too,this was the first movie version of a Tennessee Williams work that I ever saw growing up. I remember watching it the night it first aired in the US. I taped it on our VCR.
Wow, bad accent. I am a huge fan of Maggie Smith, but she is sliding here and there on her Southern accent.
I think the speed needs to be reduced to .75.
PERFECTION 🎉 This is what TENNESSEE WILLIAMS intended! This movie is much better than the Original, simply because the actual story is clearly told, plot-wise, script-wise....and so genuinely, effortlessly portrayed by the Late, Great NATASHA RICHARDSON✨🦋 I finally understand what the hell happened to Sebastian! Liz Taylor, I love you but your performance had to be contrived thru Flashbacks, since you weren't that as capable an actress at that time, early in her career. But THIS movie is true story-telling, bolstered by Dame Maggie's scene- stealing and Rob Lowe's sultry, sexiness, young doctor that MONTGOMERY CLIFT wasn't able to portay like he used to. A nuanced, artful Film, shot in a haze, just like a hot, humid Southern Gothic movie should!💨💖
A great live play version is being performed now during the Tennessee Williams Festival in St Louis. They plan to post later. COCA Arts. Excellent portrayal of Aunt Violet and Catherine by young African American actress Naima Randolph. Sept 16 2023
@@parstl3739 Thank you for mentioning the Tennessee Williams Festival. I look forward to seeing the performance you mention.
@parstl3739 Oooh that sounds amazing!
The original has always been one of my favorites films..this version had me weeping for everyone involved.. Catherine telling of the dismissal of cousin SEBASTIAN and his mother going totally insane with TRUTH is more disturbing than the original. DR. SUGAR part is or could of been more dramatic but ROB LOWE was still eye candy for the viewers. Isn`t that what LOVE is..when we use people..Hate is when we are not allowed to. I will close with this thought on both versions.. think the lines should of said ' SEBASTIAN who was always good and kind saw something in the universe that wasn`t good and kind..the doctor responds..."A GOD" ..instead of ' A GOD' the line should of been "human race' BECAUSE we all prey on one another like the hungry black birds!
'(should)of been'?! Tut! Tut! You mean 'should have been'.
the original!!!????... the film was not the original
The commenter's last phrase is quite interesting because unfortunately I believe it's true. I have learned to never expose any vulnerability to anybody who is EVIL or of two sides--ONE being extremely dark & the other relatively light. Recently I went to the library as I needed to get a very important letter to a business and the librarian usually helps me with no problem. I know she has a very dark side which I saw when I took a couple classes with her that were craft projects. She was very talented but I could tell she was very very dark. As a librarian she has to hide that side but this time I'd just returned from a vacation and I had fallen due to a crack in the sidewalk that I didn't see as I wasn't paying attention. I fell very hard and I had a lot of different aches and pains due to it. I had begun wearing a brace on my hand etcetera so I mentioned that to her my fall. I didn't really expect sympathy because that's not how people are nowadays and I knew she was not of that nature but when she went to help me she became very antagonistic and criticized me unjustly for being too slow or not doing something correctly that I had no knowledge of because it was a brand new program I was being trained to do in order to create this document for this business.
When I left the library she was once again sitting at her desk and I said to her quite clearly: BEFORE you were hired, I was using a different program and it was easy. AND then I left. THIS is the south so the statement would have resonance with a southerner. She's a Midwestener.
I pondered her negative actions and wondered what I would do in the future if she got even worse because I often do need help of a technical nature to get documents out to different businesses. Then I realized that I had shown vulnerability to her due to telling her I had fallen which for most humans would elicit sympathy or at least a quiet listening to the other's misfortune but in her case it revealed a vulnerability that I had not exposed before and so she pounced on me like a rabid animal. SO YES the comment made by this person is more than apropos it is absolutely the TRUTH 💀
@@LadyBug1967 thanks for commenting on my post. So sorry you were exposed to someone` dark side. Think maybe..if there is someone else there that could help you..I would try to go that route. The film does show how selfish human nature can be. I am also guilty. Karma is real.. when you release negative energy..it comes back to you..same for postive. Just always remember that is what we all are..a body of energy. I has a co-worker,,,,older lady who was downright awful and hateful to me..been employed by the company over 30 years..so management would do nothing.. I was always trying to show her kindness. well.. 1995..hurt my leg.. have 2 pins and a plate in my knee. off work 3 months.. believe it or not.. she would stop by apartment and bring me fruit.. juice.. softdrinks..etc twice a week. she was the only coworker who reached out to me. I found out later.. she` had been used and abused most of her life.. she was bitter.. we became good friends..she always smiled when she she me when I returned to work. I bought her some luggage cases for her to travel after she retired. ^ months or less after retirement..she had a heart attack. everyone talked about how everyone hated her.. but me.. knew there was a kind person who been stepped on. Maybe that is the woman`s problem. wishing you both postive thoughts. thanks again
I really want to enjoy this, but as a New Orleanian I just can't get past those Hollywood Suhthuhn accents. New Orleanians don't sound like that.
I've not yet seen a play by Tennessee Williams which had the clarity of realism about it. Instead, we get a disgruntled gay cobbling together bits of nastiness to produce what he thinks is a true vision of human hell. It's a whole world away from the elegance of Oscar Wilde, who, God knows, handled his difficulties with grace.
Never heard of Southern Gothic?
@@YaleinPrague Thank you! I've looked it up. But my problem with Tennessee Williams is not the genre, it's the subtle inaccuracy of the psychology.
Have you seen the version with Elizabeth Taylor?
What a nightmare for the young girl!
"....a well-groomed jungle".....wow
Incredibly talented cast but very uneven results. A clash of acting styles; stage vs. film , the beat of the production was off - the director just lost control. Natasha' s nimble acting is impressive, Rob is miscast as usual, Richard owns his space but we're all here for Maggie aren't we?
Still... Maggie's acting choices were unfocused. Katharine Hepburn originally played Vi as predatory Queen of the Jungle (a tense anaconda in the garden of Eden, waiting to strike). In part one, Maggie's effectively plays Vi like a transplanted withered Magnolia in a primordial forest - out of it's element. Later, her transitions and outbursts where too abrupt and ill timed. She didn't portray the manipulative power that the character inherently weilded all her life but rather a fellow player who lost her mojo. I blame the the direction, a missed opportunity.
Thanks to Gore Vidal, who re-wrote Williams play, the film is vastly superior. Throw in Hepburn's mezmerizing performance, Liz Taylor's hysterics and a brilliant score and the
Movie gets 5 stars.
This isn't the Hepburn version: this is a 1993 remake with Maggie Smith.
Liz Taylor’s performance was Oscar worthy
This version doesn’t hold a candle to the original.
So sabastian's niece & mum were his beerds?
So this mother is obsessed with keeping her son's homosexuality a secret?
Yep. Very, very emotionally incestuous.
Dame Maggie Smith -- note an English actress mastering the accent of a distinguished American southern lady. All of the characters are despicable, even the nun. Williams wrote some disturbing stuff that highlights the worst in human nature.
Yes, I think this is an example of that - a monstrous fantasy from his “dark side” that threw a bone to his demons (we all have them). I wonder if in this instance, he just wanted to see what his genius could enable him to get away with. Were it not for the gorgeous, spell-binding language that flowed from his pen, I don’t think this play would ever have seen the light of day. But I think Williams also was capable of writing characters and stories of real nobility; “Summer and Smoke”, I would say, is an example of this, and “The Glass Menagerie”. It is the beauty and poignancy of his writing when it is at the service of nobility, that makes him my favorite playwright, by miles.
Too bad they didn't use this text for the 1959 film.
I agree. While having an azing cast, the film is a bit overstuffed
They always bowdlerised Williams in films then. The things he said on the stage were too raw for film, apparently.
@@fuzzballzz36 : the censors were very difficult about this subject matter. Their interference limited what was allowed to be put in the 1959 film version.
@@slcRN1971 I'm sure that's true. He wasn't able to say half of what he could in the theatre.
It was severely censored, like Williams usually was on film.
Too tell you the truth I am indebted to TW for making homosexuality an issue in many of his plays. However 50 years later, i find the script indulgent, to the pount of being ridiculous. I doubt everything about it except it's self- indulgence.
Maggie Smith is an exellent actress,such a shame her fake American accent spoils this movie.🤨🤬
Lighting is off. Looks misty.
i believe this is purposely done...to give the sense of a humid oppressive atmosphere.
Maggie highlights what an awful actor Hepburn was. One dimensional histrionics.
The dark soft mean underbelly of class miney and family tension.
Why is grainy and discolored? It is hard to watch, on top of the subject matter.
i believe this is purposely done...to give the sense of a humid oppressive atmosphere.
I agree. I wish they would broadcast this or stream it in HD.
Blurry!
i believe this is purposely done...to give the sense of a humid oppressive atmosphere.
Unfortunately, this was never broadcast in HD. I wish they would.
Money😊
Natasha's lovely. Is her mother supposed to be this phony and stifling? Sorry, I haven't read the play, only seen the movie decades ago.
The mother is most intentionally the monster of the piece.
Not for me thank you
What do you mean?
Too sad for me to watch.
@marysmith8876 Ohh I hear you Mary. But you know, in some ways it's so over the top that you almost want to laugh, if that makes sense. It's a thick Southern Gothic, so dark as to almost be satirical. Hard for me to put into words. Like those dark fairy tales where the grandma gets eaten by a wolf and then cut out of its belly, you know? Oddly, I think you're supposed to have fun with it. Which comes across more in this version than the feature film from 1959. Maybe give it another chance with that in mind.
Mmm, you may be right. Peace be with you 🎉
Smith and Lowe are totally unconvincing. Lowe has no personality and Smith has a sort of Southern accent, but it has an underlying British enunciation. Words are not flowing but sharply cut.
Decades ago when I was young, I played the doctor role in a small professional stage production. All the actors in it were more believable, perhaps even me. But I doubt that I could have been as bad as Lowe. None of us tried to put on fake Southern accents.
This film is totally missable.
Cannot believe that Maggie smith agreed to be part of this dark and sinister story… it does not matter that Tennessee William was exploring the dark side of human nature, it does not matter that he was a great playwright.. this sordid tale should have been left to a less discerning actress… maybe Maggie Smith needed the money.. maybe she was contractually obliged to do it, maybe she wanted to better Katherine Hepburn…. Just hope that there isn’t a dark side to Maggie Smith😏
Yes, god forbid our idols be human. Great actresses don't stay that way by not working & Williams is famous for his female roles. Aren't villains the most fun to play? Dame Diana Rigg played the role on stage & she did some of the most challenging female roles in middle age, won awards for Medea, Mrs. Danvers, Mother Love, nominated repeatedly for Olenna in Game of Thorns.
Liz Taylor s version Is the only version, no one can ever take that away from her. This remake does not have 1/2 the drama or class, the acting is quite weak in theyre potrayal by comparison plus it has maggie smith attempting to play a role thats already been iconise by K Hepburn.... ms. smith s acting is rather irritat5ing at best ....of course most of her roles are irritating to me. ms.Richardsons attempt to recreate l Taylors role i must admit, was interesting
Why did you watch, then?
@@dadodydoTo learn? Don't know what you're getting unless you WATCH it.
Like many of William's classics, Suddenly has been revived many times.
Rape, incest, child molestation and cannibalism, not exactly wholesome topics when this film was originally made in 1959. Liz Taylor was the protagonist, Montgomery Cliff was the Doctor, and in the original, the Aunt was trying to bribe the doctor to LOBOTOMIZE miss Katherine to shut her up to protect her degenerate cousins reputation.
Watch the ORIGINAL.
LIZ TAYLOR, KATHERINE HEPBURN AND MONTGOMERY CLIFF.
I believe both Taylor and Hepburn were nominated for Oscar's for their performances.
Where Tennessee got this nightmare from? One of his drunken episodes?
The art industry is based on self-advertising. That means that most famous plays and movies are about: da great artiste, da great poet, da great writer, da great painter, da great singer, da great movie star, da great actor, da great composer, da great conductor, da great opera singer, da great dancer, etc., etc. ad nauseum.