Biography - Tennessee Williams: Wounded Genius (A&E DVD Archives)
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Brand: A&EDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 50 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-04-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E Home Video
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- Theic works of Tennessee Williams have earned him a reputation as one of the greatest American playwrights of the 20th century. Now, BIOGRAPHY® paints an in-depth portrait of the famed writer and the personal problems that both plagued his life and inspired his masterworks. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES Rating: NR Age: 733961718386 UPC: 733961718386 M
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DVD Review: Well-done bio of Thomas Lanier ('Tennessee') Williams
Summary: 4 Stars
I'm familiar with many of the film adaptations of Tennessee Williams' works and recently saw BABY DOLL (1956) (didn't care for it), his only actual screenplay, but knew little of this playwright/poet's life.
For example, until A&E's TENNESSEE WILLIAMS: WOUNDED GENIUS, I wasn't aware that THE GLASS MENAGERIE was a screenplay rejected in 1941 by MGM that Williams turned into his first Broadway success or that "Menagerie" and SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER were based in part on Tennessee's family life.
In "Suddenly," young Catherine Holly's Aunt Violet wants to have her lobotomized to keep the girl from telling anyone how and especially WHY Violet's son died. In real life, Tennessee's mother forced his beloved older sister Rose to undergo this mind-altering surgery. For the rest of her institutionalized life Rose was in the writer's opinion, "tranquil" and very much a zombie.
In this 48-minute documentary, a rare audio recording is heard of Marlon Brando in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. There's also a stage soundbite of "Glass Menagerie." Brief excerpts of films are shown, but the focus here is on the "wounded genius" himself, thus discussion of personal excesses and destructive behaviors are unavoidable.
We see one famous clip where Williams, who's just been released from rehab, appears quite drunk in a David Frost interview. He even declares his sobriety in a slurry, fey manner. It's a tragic moment, as was the author's death at age 71 from choking on an eyedrop bottle cap. Tennessee's younger brother Dakin insists he was murdered, which seems unlikely. Alcohol and barbiturates were found in the room, besides Mr. Williams wasn't exactly a young man on that sad day in 1983.
It's noted as a postscript that all of Tennessee Williams' later plays which either bombed were skewered by critics have in recent years been reassessed. Most are believed to not be as wanting, vague or vapid as originally thought.
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Description of Biography - Tennessee Williams: Wounded Genius (A&E DVD Archives)
Biography paints an in-depth portrait of the pulitzer prize winning writer & tormented genius whose parsonal problems both plagued his life & inspired his masterpieces. Studio: A&e Home Video Release Date: 04/26/2005 Run time: 50 minutesBestsellers in DVD
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