Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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- In Richard Brooks: Heyday
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) was his adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a troubled Southern family. Despite numerous changes to satisfy the Production Code, even today it still carries considerable force, in large part because of strong performances by Paul…
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- In Richard Brooks: Heyday
- play by Williams
- In Tennessee Williams
…Pulitzer Prize and was successfully filmed, as was The Night of the Iguana (1961), the story of a defrocked minister turned sleazy tour guide, who finds God in a cheap Mexican hotel. Suddenly Last Summer (1958) deals with lobotomy, pederasty, and cannibalism, and in Sweet Bird of Youth (1959) the…
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- In Tennessee Williams
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- Newman
- In Paul Newman: First films
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) was a highly praised adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play that also starred Elizabeth Taylor and Burl Ives; for his performance as a self-destructive former football player who is at odds with his father, Newman earned his first…
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- In Paul Newman: First films
- Taylor
- In Elizabeth Taylor
…film adaptations of Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) and Suddenly, Last Summer (1959).
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- In Elizabeth Taylor