Tennessee Williams Interview on Tiger Tail (January 5, 1978)
Tennessee Williams, Williams speaks about the premiere production of his play, Tiger Tail, at the Atlanta Alliance Theatre.
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.[1]
At age 33, after years of obscurity, Williams suddenly became famous with the success of The Glass Menagerie (1944) in New York City. He introduced "plastic theatre" in this play and it 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, Williams attempted a new style that did not appeal as widely 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.[1]
Much of Williams's 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.[2]
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the greatest american playwright ever!!!
It must have been extremely difficult for him to receive such critical animosity towards his work in the latter part of his life and I admire his determination to keep on writing despite this.
Not even all the way through and I am in awe of this interview, this interviewer, and how he draws such candor and humour out of Tennessee Williams. No wonder the critics attacked Tennessee in his later years. He told the truth. He revealed the folly. He rocked the boat. Thank-you to the person who posted this incredible clip!
@misterparadise9542
Ай бұрын
Yes, this interviewer did a great job. . .all it takes is a little sympathy and honesty and you bring out the genius from Tennessee Williams
Thank You for posting. Tennessee is on my family ancestry tree as a cousin.
Things like this is what truly makes You Tube wonderful !
Im a huge Tennessee Williams fan ! Being a Southerner I really get the eccentricity of his characters ! Hope you are still writing wherever you are with a typewriter ! TW ! 📖🔖
He was incredibly charming
one of the alltime greats !!!! thank u
Amazing! Thank you for posting this!
What a wonderful interview--Tennessee was/is a marvel-- :)
omg where has this media been? I'm gonna have a sherry.
Ah, Tennessee, it's seems North America has finally reached Block Sixteen on El Camino Real....'The Curtain Line has been spoken. Bring it Down!'.....
The question at 6:21 ("Do you ever reach the point where you are completely satisfied with a script?") does not understand how a play evolves in performance. Playwrights know a play is never "finished" as words on a page because rewrites happen when actors bring those words onto a stage. If a play script has never reached rehearsal stage ... then it certainly is nowhere near "finished".
Ta for this!! What's the interviewer's name, please?
@garygoodson
Жыл бұрын
Jim Whaley
@jmichaelbaran9724
Жыл бұрын
As my friend and long time former classmate at DCC stated so correctly...the interviewer is the late, great Jim Whaley. Jim was probably the first personality to create a televised film interview show...going back to the early 1970's. Jim worked in his pre-teen years at a local movie theatre in Avondale Estates called the Towne Cinema...where repertory films would play in the day and on weekends....and Jim would work the booth and sit in the projection room...soaking in all of the glory of early films. Later, as a late teen, he took his love for the filmed work to the producers at WETV channel 8, which was the Atlanta School Systems PBS station....and asked them to allow him to show clips of old films and describe them. The show was a hit...and later he branched out interviewing actors and film makers. One of his first guests...and later a life-long friend...Burt Reynolds. He also made friends with the leaders at MGM, where he became one of the most informed consultants of the great MGM musicals in the 1970's. His show, "Cinema Showcase" predated the more famous show "In The Balcony" with Siskel and Ebert by at least 10 years. If Jim had been hired by TCM....he would have made Robert Osborne a student...not the other way around.
@misterparadise9542
Ай бұрын
He is a great interviewer. . .Thanks for telling us more about him.
This can't be January of 1978, as there's a poster for grease which wasn't released till the summer!
@67Parsifal
10 ай бұрын
Grease was a Broadway musical before it was a film.
@benfisher1376
10 ай бұрын
@67Parsifal But there's photos of the film on it. You can see Olivia Newton John?
@heatherf2430
8 ай бұрын
It could have been a promotional poster that came out prior to the movie@@benfisher1376
@misterparadise9542
Ай бұрын
Maybe they were advertising in advance?
Is that Strother Martin