The first time I read Glass Menagerie (in high school), I was floored. The emotion was so raw it felt like being flayed alive.

Some can overcome their background, others can only reveal it in art.

@richardcassidy9536

Жыл бұрын

A great quote from a revealing insight. Is it an original of yours?

@sheilasmith7779

Жыл бұрын

@@richardcassidy9536 No, its just my thoughts.

@richardcassidy9536

Жыл бұрын

@@sheilasmith7779 So it is an original of yours, yes? Your replyis confusing.

@georgethomas4419

Жыл бұрын

That's bang on

@georgethomas4419

Жыл бұрын

There's always one eh. They can't help it why do they feel the need to shit on everyone's parade, they're like fucking vampires

One after another great documentary about these great and fascinating writers.

Loved the saxophone at about 12 minutes.

Thank you for an awesome documentary on the one and only Tennessee Williams. Can’t imagine our world without the literary legacy he left.

@AuthorDocumentaries

2 жыл бұрын

As always!

@matthewschwartz6607

Жыл бұрын

@@AuthorDocumentaries - Have you ever done any on William Inge? Or Gene O’Neill?

'The model for "Big daddy" with all the positive sides to his personality, is T. Williams own father' - His father was a brute.

@1timbarrett

10 ай бұрын

My father was also a brute. But I forgive him because I met his parents.

@jonharrison9222

10 ай бұрын

And in The Glass Menagerie.

Thank you for the literary legacy he left behind, thank you for the beautiful video, it's good that someone brought him closer and reminded the world about him.

Very enjoyable!!!

Beautifully done!

Thanks a bundle you've really made my day😄 TW is one of my favourite writers.

@AuthorDocumentaries

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

Amazing 👏

Tennessee Ernie Williams was really unique.

Well his last statement is so true in life and is what makes him one of our greatest literally artists!

The Paul Newman version of this story is well done. One of my favorite films

He requested in his will to be cremated and his ashes be buried at sea. His brother had him buried in a catholic cemetery in the city he hated.

His gifts are part of our culture yet most have no idea. I love Williams works.

Incredibly, someone misspelled Tennessee Williams' name on the title card.

Thank you for sharing this. Lol, silly man, no one will forget such an awesome and astute writer!! A shame he died so young.

@doreekaplan2589

9 ай бұрын

That he was willing to

FACINATING Person.

When you misspell the name 'Tennessee Williams' in the title frame of a flick about the man, you really have to go back and correct such a grievous error.

@catherinecarrigan5763

7 ай бұрын

That and the mispronunciation of DuBois and Belle Reve 😢

Excellent. Thank you.

as a native of Louisiana, I couldn't help but roar with laughter at the affected British accent he seems to have developed.

@jonharrison9222

Жыл бұрын

Sorry the sound of being better bothers you.

@Dog4life_

Жыл бұрын

I love the myriad dialects of the South telling wonderful stories passed from one generation to the next with each new generation adding their take on the story.

@thetarotdetective3363

6 ай бұрын

Transatlantic accent used by the rich and famous very popular

Paul Newman and Liz were in , A cat on top of a hot tin roof, not Streetcar.

@moonriverdiver

4 ай бұрын

I prefer Natalie Wood to Liz Taylor in the other filmed version but Laurence Olivier there can't match Burl Ives.

The rose tattoo, wasn't that a film with Kirk Douglas, thought I'd seen it as a young girl. Am I remembering it incorrectly??

@gdr9213

Жыл бұрын

It was Burt Lancaster.

came here because I heard somebody say Tennessee Williams might have been the inspiration for the character "Gilbert" on king of the hill. had to see what that person meant, I can kinda see it lol.

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The narrator sounds like somebody from 1959

I feel like this is a travel brochure. And not aging well. Certainly the “he hated his homosexuality” is less accurate than he hated the society that rejected homosexuality and falsely claimed it was a sin.

@superboyh2875

Ай бұрын

If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe I'd been married long time ago Where did you come from, where did you go? Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe? If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe I'd been married long time ago Where did you come from, where did you go? Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe? If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe I'd been married long time ago Where did you come from, where did you go? Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe? If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe I'd been married long time ago Where did you come from, where did you go? Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe? He came to town like a midwinter storm He rode through the fields, so handsome and strong His eyes was his tools and his smile was his gun But all he had come for was having some fun If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe I'd been married long time ago Where did you come from, where did you go? Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe? If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe I'd been married long time ago Where did you come from, where did you go? Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe? He brought disaster wherever he went The hearts of the girls was to Hell, broken, sent They all ran away so nobody would know And left only men 'cause of Cotton-Eye Joe If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe I'd been married long time ago Where did you come from, where did you go? Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe? If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe I'd been married long time ago Where did you come from, where did you go? Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe? If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe I'd been married long time ago Where did you come from, where did you go? Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe? If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe I'd been married long time ago Where did you come from, where did you go? Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe? If it hadn't been for Cotton-Eye Joe I'd been married long time ago Where did you come from, where did you go? Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?

How does one offer the best authors story to us w no closed captions, i must read bcz of hearing issues 🤷🏼‍♀️

New York snobbery. Still true today.

Misspelled Williams in the opening scene.🤔

@AuthorDocumentaries

2 жыл бұрын

Don't know how they missed that one

@Bass-n-Boom

2 жыл бұрын

🙆‍♂️ Because poeple are stoopid. 🤪

The narrator conveys affectionate familiarity rather than awe or searing analysis (try John Lahr) and this cosiness enhanced by the ambling street photograpy and its jazz. The Hemingway info not mentioned in the Burns doco on the latter.

~ 12.50 Wonder if he was manic-depressive?

well you gotta start somewhere in your interest in Tenn. This was a skim told by "a man of his times" by which I mean someone with limited insight - particularly with regard to his homosexuality and what it was like for a homosexual man in the 30s. Typical out of date statements: "Stella, not married in keeping with her social status" and referring to Rose's forced lobotomy as a brain operation and skipping how this lobotomy was an action taken by her mother which Tenn never stopped grieving -- this tragedy partly portrayed in Suddenly Last Summer. And why no mention of Tenn's brother Daiken? My favorite play is The Night of the Iguana.

@richardcassidy9536

Жыл бұрын

A skim of the surface is right, as shallow as a game of ducks and drakes, skimming flat stones across the surface of water..

@kvothethebloodless8090

Жыл бұрын

His wife's mother forced a lobotomy on her own daughter?

@sedoff1948

Жыл бұрын

To King Fisher: I fully agree with your sentiments about the video. When younger I read everything by him and about him. And in D.C. at the Watergate I was thrilled my girlfriend made him a spinach salad after he asked if her restaurant was still open. She nearly fainted. And most important, I agree with you about your favorite of his, “ Night of the Iguana”. So, so wonderful. Cheers from the Shan Mountains.

@matthewschwartz6607

Жыл бұрын

@@richardcassidy9536 - Is it true that he was committed to a psychiatric hospital once?

@user-ii4yz3gk4b

9 ай бұрын

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Shots of New York, when speaking of the success of "A Streetcar Named Desire", were rather spoiled by a very much later theatre sign advertising "Phantom of the Opera", of all things!

*Williams Expierenced and wrote about the "lower energy frequency scale",* he suffered, unnecessarily, from guilt and fear, he was searching for freedom from these, they were unrealized "self imposed suffering". Had he discovered the *"Universal Law of Attraction",* be would have found his Freedom and Independence from his "learned agony" , and he would have lived empowered and happily. Had he known, in spite of the created Social Judgemental standards, that *He was perfect, as he was,* and his homosexuality was not a failure, rather it was part of his physical makeup, and God doesn't make "mistakes". Guilt and fear are the cause of all that is negative, they are the tools used to manipulate and control the masses. They serve no value to anyone's greater Wellbeing. (86 them) May his Soul be blessed with eternal positive energy and bliss. We each create our own reality through our: *"Thoughts + Feelings + Beliefs"* ...we can absolutely create our positive desires. . Know you are worthy of Your Desires, focus on your Solutions, Desires, and establish balanced Self-Love. 🔑 Beth NW Tennessee, USA

@bernie4268

Жыл бұрын

A very interesting comment. I have spent my life struggling with same-sex attraction. Acceptance of this is something that has always seemed difficult. It’s like I have a split personality over it. Maybe the problem is all the labels we are put in and put ourselves in. These create a fictional self and this obscures our true pure innocent self.

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According to one unreliable source, Mr. Williams favorite tipple was the Ramos gin fizz, not Napoleon brandy (and again, Napoleon is not whiskey).

@carollevola9047

Жыл бұрын

Professor Sogol, if the piece of information you've posted (in correction to an alleged erroneous fact, that was given in the video narration) was gleaned from a supposed "unreliable source", as you've said, then how can we rely on it to be any more accurate or credible than those responsible for the video itself? Lol :)

Bad bad wigs

He had

Napoleon is a kind of brandy not a whiskey.

Very superficial docu.

Tennessee Williams was bipolar. Brilliant but bipolar.

@martitinkovich4489

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mr. freud.

@sheilasmith7779

2 жыл бұрын

IrishTexan08, haven't you heard every mental disorder, is " bipolar?" Although the DSM criteria, reveals Bipolar is more rare than Schizophrenia, it seems the whole world suffers, Bipolar Disorder.

To get away from somewhere 🙄

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Williams sister Rose was not born mentally retarded and Tom was not given over to his grandparents to be raised. They did play a part in his life, but this ridiculous idea makes me wonder about the accuracy of this doc. I suggest that viewers read the biography of Tennessee Williams by Lyle Leverich and after Leverich's death continued in another volume by John Lahr.

You told a lie in the first 20 seconds. Congratulations.

@beastshawnee

Жыл бұрын

lol

I see. Lincoln's the bad guy. 😆

@patricias5122

2 жыл бұрын

that's what southerners think ....and want us to think it was about 'states' rights' not slavery. one only has to look at the photo at the beginning of this documentary .... the family's household servants, isolated away from the family in their uniforms.

@uratrick

7 ай бұрын

States Rights is what it was for us.

Enough with modern NO already. Had nothing to do with Williams' work.

it's pretty clear that the narrator, although he has a pleasant enough voice, has no emotional investment or personal interest in the subject matter. it's almost as if the entire text was read by an AI bot. I was shocked that he mispronounced Blanche's last name, although she is one of the most recognizable fictional characters in the theater. the more i think about it, maybe it IS an AI narrator...

@sandyolsonhill9213

Жыл бұрын

yes, and his sister wasn't "mentally retarded". This was badly researched.

@1timbarrett

10 ай бұрын

I think it’s safe to say the narrator is NOT gay.😂

But what is this nonsense of making up or changing the lines in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof? I have the play memorized and this whole "documentary" is weakened by that; plus some questionable commentary. I can't go on watching this; maybe later I'll check it out to see if the docu can justify itself...

@blanchefan

Жыл бұрын

Continuing, this poorly written piece of nonsense is hardly worthy of a group of college sophomores who tried to put something together (the college folks would have been better). The "actors" who play brief parts from Tennessee's plays are not actors at all, but rank amateurs who don't know what they're doing. Some of the "commentary" is outright lies. For example, the claim at the end that Tennessee wanted to be forgotten after his death. Absolute nonsense. If you are a true fan or student of Tennessee Williams, please, please ignore this nonsense. The only good players were the street musicians who played the street musicians in New Orleans. Otherwise, forget this crap--which insults the memory of America's greatest playwright. The whole piece, by the way, seems to have been created or produced in Germany; that's neither here nor there, but there you are. I'm sure there's a finely tuned insight into the American South or New Orleans--not.

@1timbarrett

10 ай бұрын

Personally I rate Arthur Miller as Number One, but that is just my personal preference.

Those horrid words- "cheap black labor" wow. Freaking wow......

@uratrick

7 ай бұрын

How would you describe it then? Slavery was a reality in the southern states.

I thought this was about Tennessee Williams not race bating

Illusion!

A lil soap opera for me. As a northern born poet, just can't relate. Still, I respect the fact he completed plays and got them on stage...like Neil Simon, the northern Williams.

@bethbartlett5692

2 жыл бұрын

It is all grown out of the Evangelical Fundamentalist Fears that are the foundation of the Southern Social Ideaology, it wrecks Hancock on countless individuals and is a toxic programming of the children of "Fundamentalist Religion Families". Should you ever desire a clarity on the subject, just ask. Beth NW Tennessee, USA (Sociologist, Journalist, Historian) See my comment on this video, it identifies the actual cause factors. Best Regards

@vino140

2 жыл бұрын

Neil Simon was a sitcom hack.

@martitinkovich4489

2 жыл бұрын

The northern Williams? What a crass insult.

@chillin127

2 жыл бұрын

Wow. It’s like you guys once went to war.

33 mins...there is no such thing as a nymphomaniac. The word is merely a patriarchal political term for a woman who chooses her own sexual norms.Good docu though, by and large.

@noneofurbusiness5223

Жыл бұрын

@ Poems . . . Blanch is representing T. Wms.

@rev.markcarrier1894

8 ай бұрын

A nymphomaniac is compulsive. This isn’t about choices.

@Poemsapennyeach

8 ай бұрын

Ha ha...how do YOU know this....lol...lol...True for you....not for me.@@rev.markcarrier1894

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