Birthday:
03-26-1911
Deathday:
02-24-1983 (71 years)
Birthplace:
Columbus, Mississippi, USA
Biography
Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.
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The Yellow Bird
Act like Narrator (voice)
event2002
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A young girl escapes the boredom of a small town existence in the 1930s.
Tennessee Williams' South
event1973 star_border 10
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The brutes and the belles. The gadflies and the good ol' boys. The taboos and the profound truths. They're all part of a tennessee state of mind -- a realm of places, personalities and ideas. Williams is front and center for this exploration, reading from his works, placing them in the context of his life, and serving as guide in visits to his career-shaping refuge in New Orleans and his later-day writing quarters in Key West. Also, dramatizations by distinguished actors -- including Jessica Tandy, Broadway's original Blanche DuBois, in a recreation of her A Streetcar Named Desire triumph -- give flesh-and-bone immediacy to some of the writer's famed works. In his own words. In his own places. The resilient character and memorable characters of one of our greatest writers reside in Tennessee Williams' South.
The Rose Tattoo
Act like Man at Mardi Gras Club (uncredited)
event1955 star_border 6.9
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A grieving widow embarks on a new romance when she discovers her late husband had been cheating on her.
Beautiful Darling
Act like Self (archive footage)
event2010 star_border 6
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James Rasin's documentary “Beautiful Darling” honors American Transgender actress and best-known Warhol Superstar, Candy Darling, and her all-too-brief life and career, with a combination of current and vintage interview material, rarely seen archival photos and footage, and extracts from Darling's movies.
The Screen Director
Act like Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 6
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A documentary short film depicting the work of the motion picture director. An anonymous director is shown preparing the various aspects of a film for production, meeting with the writer and producer, approving wardrobe and set design, rehearsing scenes with the actors and camera crew, shooting the scenes, watching dailies, working with the editor and composer, and attending the first preview. Then a number of real directors are shown in archive footage (as well as a predominance of staged 'archive' footage) working with actors and crew.
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Act like Self (archive footage)
event1994
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A study of Tennessee Williams's life and work as a whole, ranging from his youth in Mississippi and in St. Louis to success and acclaim, followed by the final difficult years. Includes some of the most celebrated scenes from film adaptations of Williams' work, among them extracts of A Streetcar Named Desire (1951),Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Night of the Iguana, The (1964), and Suddenly, Last Summer (1993) (TV). Contains footage of Williams being interviewed, including conversations with David Frost, 'Edward R. Murrow (I)', and Melvyn Bragg, as well as reminiscences from people who knew and worked with him, among them Edward Albee, Gore Vidal, and his lifelong friend, Lady Maria St. Just. Features readings from Elia Kazan's Notebook by Kim Hunter.
And the Oscar Goes To...
Act like Self (archive footage)
event2014 star_border 7
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The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
Act like Self - Playwright (archive footage)
event2021 star_border 3
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The parallel lives of writer Truman Capote (1924-84) and playwright Tennessee Williams (1911-83): two friends, two geniuses who, while creating sublime works, were haunted by the ghosts of the past, the shadow of constant doubt, the demon of addictions and the blinding, deceptive glare of success.
The Kennedy Center Honors
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event1978 star_border 7.3
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The Kennedy Center Honors is an annual honor given to those in the performing arts for their lifetime of contributions to American culture.
Midi Première
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event1975 star_border 10
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Midi Première is a French variety show presented by Danièle Gilbert, directed by Jacques Pierre and broadcast from January 6, 1975 until January 1, 1982 on TF1. The program was generally broadcast between 12:15 p.m. and 12:55 p.m., then giving way to the 1:00 p.m. TV news. However, the broadcast schedule could change, depending on the guests, and the setting where the recording of the program was shot. Certain performances by artists who have become cult like the one where Ringo jostles with a demonstrator in interpretation (1977), that of Dalida with the title There is always a song with the soundtrack that does not start, twice, at the right speed (1978), Claude François and his Clodettes, who, in the provinces, are unable to join "the set" in order to interpret his song, the latter being taken by the crowd of delirious fans (summer 1977) . The group Supertramp performed there with the title "Dreamer" on March 8, 1975.
The Dick Cavett Show
Act like Self - Guest (2 ep.)
event1968 star_border 6.6
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The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Theatre Play (2 ep.)
event1958 star_border 7.7
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An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
A Streetcar Named Desire
Theatre Play (2 ep.)
event1951 star_border 7.6
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A disturbed, aging Southern belle moves in with her sister for solace — but being face-to-face with her brutish brother-in-law accelerates her downward spiral.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Theatre Play (2 ep.)
event1984 star_border 5.5
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An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
Sweet Bird of Youth
Theatre Play (2 ep.)
event1962 star_border 6.8
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Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. Chance runs into trouble when he finds his ex-girlfriend, the daughter of the local politician Tom "Boss" Finley, who more or less forced him to leave his daughter and the town many years ago.
Baby Doll
Screenplay (2 ep.)
event1956 star_border 7.1
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Archie Lee Meighan is a failing cotton gin owner who is married to Baby Doll, a 19-year old childlike beauty whose father arranged the marriage for financial reasons. As Archie awaits the arrival of Baby Doll's 20th birthday, the day that they are supposed to consummate their marriage, he faces interference from business rival Silva Vacarro, who plots to seduce Baby Doll away from Meighan.
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
Writer (2 ep.)
event2008 star_border 5.2
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Tells the story of Fisher Willow, the disliked 1920s Memphis débutante daughter of a plantation owner with a distaste for narrow-minded people and a penchant for shocking and insulting those around her. After returning from studies overseas, Fisher falls in love with Jimmy, the down-and-out son of an alcoholic father and an insane mother who works at a store on her family's plantation.
Period of Adjustment
Theatre Play (2 ep.)
event1962 star_border 5.7
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A newlywed couple on their honeymoon visit friends who are having marital problems of their own.
Suddenly, Last Summer
Screenplay (2 ep.)
event1959 star_border 7.3
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The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth.
This Property Is Condemned
Theatre Play (2 ep.)
event1966 star_border 6.3
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Owen Legate, a railroad official, comes to Dodson, Mississippi to shut down the local railway - the town's main income. But Owen unexpectedly finds love with Dodson's flirt and main attraction, Alva Starr.
Sweet Bird of Youth
Writer (2 ep.)
event1989 star_border 5.8
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Tennessee William’s masterful melodrama about an aging movie star who, appalled by her own image on the screen, flees from her movie premiere and goes into seclusion, becoming entangled with a much younger hotel masseur and resident gigolo.
Boom!
Writer (2 ep.)
event1968 star_border 6.2
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Explores the confrontation between the woman who has everything, including emptiness, and a penniless poet who has nothing but the ability to fill a wealthy woman's needs.
National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire
Theatre Play (2 ep.)
event2014 star_border 7.5
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As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski.
Bourbon Street Blues
Writer (2 ep.)
event1979 star_border 5.9
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An adaptation of Tennessee Williams' "The Lady Larkspur Lotion" created by Douglas Sirk with the assistance of his film students and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It depicts the conflict between a dreamy, delusional heroine and her brusque, practical landlady, who wants to kick her out of her apartment.
Suddenly, Last Summer
Writer (2 ep.)
event2007
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The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth.
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
Writer (2 ep.)
event1976 star_border 8
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The tale of a lonely Southern woman's longing for her handsome next-door neighbor. At once tragic and romantic, the story is a reworking of the Williams play "Summer and Smoke," which uses the same characters and setting but in dramatically different ways.
Een vreemde liefde
Writer (2 ep.)
event1990
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A lonely man tossed by life and hectored by his landlady finds happiness only with an alley cat.
Three Plays by Tennessee Williams
Writer (2 ep.)
event1958 star_border 5
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A presentation of Tennessee Williams' three one-act plays: "Moony's Kid Don't Cry", "The Last of My Solid Gold Watches", and "This Property Is Condemned".
The Migrants
Story (2 ep.)
event1974 star_border 5.7
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A look at the lives of migratory farm workers, focusing on one family.
Hilsen fra Bertha
Writer (2 ep.)
event1968
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A prostitute suffers schitzoid dillusions while grasping on to her past loves. She is stricken with "acquired" diseases.
27 Wagons Full of Cotton
Writer (2 ep.)
event1990 star_border 6
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In order to boost his own cotton ginning business, Jake Meighan sets the local Syndicate Plantation ablaze. the superintendent of the Syndicate Plantation sends over 27 wagons full of cotton for ginning, and turns aside his suspicions that Jake is the arsonist in exchange for apparent sexual favors from Jake's wife, Flora.
Orpheus Descending
Writer (2 ep.)
event1990 star_border 4
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Val Xavier is a drifter in 1940's Mississippi who brings new life to an Italian immigrant woman trapped in a loveless marriage.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Writer (2 ep.)
event1976 star_border 5
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An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
A Streetcar Named Desire
Writer (2 ep.)
event1995 star_border 7
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A fading Southern Belle moves in with her sister in New Orleans where her ferocious brother-in-law takes stabs at her sanity.
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Novel (2 ep.)
event1961 star_border 6.7
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Critics and the public say Karen Stone is too old -- as she approaches 50 -- for her role in a play she is about to take to Broadway. Her businessman husband, 20 years her senior, has been the angel for the play and gives her a way out: They are off to a holiday in Rome for his health. He suffers a fatal heart attack on the plane. Mrs. Stone stays in Rome. She leases a magnificent apartment with a view of the seven hills from the terrace. Then the contessa comes calling to introduce a young man named Paolo to her. The contessa knows many presentable young men and lonely American widows.
The Glass Menagerie
Writer (2 ep.)
event2021 star_border 6
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An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her dreams of what life should be.
Dragon Country
Theatre Play (2 ep.)
event1970 star_border 5
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Producer-director Glenn Jordan brought together two Tennessee Williams plays, written twenty years apart, that examine the theme of isolation with searching clarity. The joint presentation, entitled "Dragon Country," features the world premiere of "I Can't Imagine Tomorrow," starring Kim Stanley and William Redfield, and a much earlier work, "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen," starring Lois Smith and Alan Mixon. Together, the dramas delve into "a land of endured but unendurable pain, where each one is so absorbed, deafened, blinded by his own journey across it, he sees, he looks for, no one else crawling across it with him."
Senso
Dialogue (2 ep.)
event1954 star_border 7.2
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A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affair with an Austrian Lieutenant.
A Streetcar Named Desire
Theatre Play (2 ep.)
event1984 star_border 5.5
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As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski.
Cat on Fire
Writer (2 ep.)
event1977 star_border 7
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Contractor Mahmoud Abdel Majeed is afflicted with cancer, and his children hide the truth about his illness from him. This man has two sons, the eldest, Mukhtar, has a weak personality, while the younger son, Amin, does not covet his father’s money and lives in isolation with his wife, Gigi. She has many ambitions to transfer ownership of the factory to Amin, but he considers her... The reason his gay friend committed suicide.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Original Story (2 ep.)
event1989
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An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
Here Without Me
Screenplay (2 ep.)
event2011 star_border 7.4
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The story is about the world of a small family with familiar dreams and not so remarkable problems. The mother is trying to lead everything to save her family, but small events disarrange all her plans.
Noir et blanc
Original Story (2 ep.)
event1986 star_border 4.3
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Antoine is an accountant, uptight and withdrawn, married to Edith, who picks out his clothes and shoes. He's assigned to a fitness gymnasium for a month to straighten out their books. The owner, M. Roland, encourages Antoine to use the facilities, including the massages, so Antoine goes to Dominique, a muscular African. In these sessions, Antoine discovers that the pain is comforting, and Dominique finds the accountant ideal for his own sadism. When Dominique breaks Antoine's arm and then goes to the hospital to take Antoine away, Antoine confesses his fascination with and fear of death. With Dominique's help, the accountant breaks all earthly ties to confront his fear.
The Glass Menagerie
Theatre Play (2 ep.)
event1950 star_border 5.8
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An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her dreams of what life should be.
The Glass Menagerie
Writer (2 ep.)
event1966 star_border 6.2
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An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her dreams of what life should be.
Suddenly, Last Summer
Author (2 ep.)
event1993 star_border 6.8
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The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth.
A Streetcar Named Desire
Writer (2 ep.)
event1987
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As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski.
Summer and Smoke
Theatre Play (2 ep.)
event1961 star_border 6.7
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In a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the randy boy next door.
The Glass Menagerie
Theatre Play (2 ep.)
event1973 star_border 7.6
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An aging Southern belle's preoccupation with her past and her dreams for her children's futures threaten to smother her painfully shy daughter and her aspiring writer son.
National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Writer (2 ep.)
event2018 star_border 6
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Tennessee Williams’ twentieth century masterpiece Cat on a Hot Tin Roof played a strictly limited season in London’s West End in 2017. An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
Writer (2 ep.)
event1966
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A collection of ten vignettes by Tennessee Williams offering various viewpoints on life, love, and death.
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Novel (2 ep.)
event2003 star_border 6.3
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An aging actress' husband dies of a heart attack en route to Rome, where they'd planned to holiday. There, she rents an apartment and, through the Contessa, she meets a young man, with whom she begins an affair.
Camino Real
Story (2 ep.)
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A group of people in a small, isolated desert town through a series of strange events, begin to come to terms with growing older.
Talk to Me Like the Rain
Writer (2 ep.)
event1976 star_border 2
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A small-scale, bare room situation involving a Man and a Woman who are bound together in an endless cycle by their hopeless poverty. Major William’s themes are explored in the Man’s alcoholism and the Woman’s desperation.
The Fugitive Kind
Screenplay (2 ep.)
event1960 star_border 6.9
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Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dying of cancer. Val is pursued by Carol Cutere, the enigmatic local tramp-of-good-family.
The Glass Menagerie
Novel (2 ep.)
event1969
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An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her dreams of what life should be.
The Glass Menagerie
Writer (2 ep.)
event1987 star_border 6.3
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An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her dreams of what life should be.
Desire
Idea (2 ep.)
event2002
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Layla lives a peaceful life with her husband Hossam in one of the coastal cities. When her older sister Nemat comes to live with her after facing financial difficulties, Hossam tries to dig into Nemat's past, especially after one of his best friends falls in love with her.
A Streetcar Named Desire - The San Francisco Opera World Premiere
Writer (2 ep.)
event1998
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As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski.
Rubber Woman
Author (2 ep.)
event1991
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The sculptor lives as a hermit in the country, drinking vodka with a local cheerful drunkard and "sealing plaster piglets" for his wife, who sells these products on the Old Arbat. A friend sends him a rubber woman from Italy who miraculously assumes the appearance of a living woman. He buys outfits for the "doll", paints portraits of her, and life becomes joyful for him. Happiness, however, was broken by the drunkard who stole a doll with dirty intentions.
A Lady’s Beaded Bag
Adaptation (2 ep.)
event2024
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Three characters from different social backgrounds—a homeless man, a maid, and her boss—each have a unique relationship with a single lost item: a pearl handbag. Adapted from the short story of the same name by Tennessee Williams.
Sweet Bird of Youth
Author (2 ep.)
event1978
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The play based on the play of the same name by T. Williams at the Moscow Academic Art Theater.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Theatre Play (2 ep.)
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An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
Akale
Theatre Play (2 ep.)
event2004 star_border 8
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Margaret's dream of getting her differently abled daughter married shatters when she finds that the boy she chooses for her is engaged to someone else.
The Night of the Iguana
Theatre Play (2 ep.)
event1964 star_border 7.2
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A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.
Last of the Mobile Hot Shots
Theatre Play (2 ep.)
event1970 star_border 4.6
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A new bride gets caught between her decadent husband and his black half-brother.
The Piper
Novel (2 ep.)
event1985 star_border 7
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Al-Zamar Hassan is on the run after he was an Engineering student and presented a play with the acting team in the Faculty that the authorities didn't like. He moves from village to village in Upper Egypt, in search of safety. He settles in the village of Araba becoming a vendor in a grocery store.
Monday's Theater
Writer (1 ep.)
event1972 star_border 7.2
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Greek television series
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