For the 1960-1961 season, The Carleton Players have announced Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca, The Knight Of The Burning Pestle by Beaumont and Fletcher and A Moon For The Misbegotten by Eugene O'Neill, with a pre-season production of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams.

`` Last year your Tennessee Williams told our Dilys Powell, in a television program, that it is the task of the playwright to throw light into the dark corners of the human heart.

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Wallach made his Broadway debut in 1945 and won a Tony Award in 1951 for his performance in the Tennessee Williams play The Rose Tattoo.

To spare Sinatra embarrassment, Wallach says he turned down the role to appear in a Tennessee Williams play: " Whenever Sinatra saw me, he ’ d say, ' Hello, you crazy actor!

Guilt is a main theme in John Steinbeck's East of Eden, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Tennessee Williams ' A Streetcar Named Desire, William Shakespeare's play Macbeth, Edgar Allan Poe's " The Tell-Tale Heart " and " The Black Cat ", and many other works of literature.

* 1955 – Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

He initially gained popularity for recreating the role as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 ), a Tennessee Williams play that had established him as a Broadway star during its 1947-49 stage run ; and for his Academy Award-winning performance as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), as well as for his iconic portrayal of the rebel motorcycle gang leader Johnny Strabler in The Wild One ( 1953 ), which is considered to be one of the most famous images in pop culture.

Tennessee Williams, among the many who acknowledged his finesse, described Brando as " the greatest living actor ever ... greater than Olivier.

During his senior year, he adapted and directed a one-hour version of Tennessee Williams ' The Glass Menagerie.

Leigh next sought the role of Blanche DuBois in the West End stage production of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire and was cast after Williams and the play's producer Irene Mayer Selznick saw her in The School for Scandal and Antigone ; Olivier was contracted to direct.

Tennessee Williams commented that Leigh brought to the role " everything that I intended, and much that I had never dreamed of "; but, in later years, Leigh would say playing Blanche DuBois " tipped me over into madness.

Finally, on September 11, 1960, she combined with Tennessee State teammates Martha Hudson, Lucinda Williams and Barbara Jones to win the 400-meter relay in 44. 5 seconds, setting a world record.

** Tennessee Williams, American playwright ( d. 1983 )

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He then went on to direct stage productions of All My Sons and Death of a Salesman, both written by Arthur Miller, and then directed Streetcar Named Desire, written by Tennessee Williams.

With playwright Tennessee Williams in 1967

Playwright Tennessee Williams said of its actors: " They act from the inside out.

Kazan directed one of the Studio's brightest young talents, Marlon Brando, in the Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire.

In 1956, Kazan directed him in a starring role in Baby Doll, alongside Carroll Baker and Eli Wallach, a controversial story written by Tennessee Williams, and he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.

On Broadway, he worked with Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, and William Inge ; in film, he worked again with Willams ( A Streetcar Named Desire and Baby Doll ), Inge ( Splendor in the Grass ), Budd Schulberg ( On the Waterfront and A Face in the Crowd ), John Steinbeck ( Viva Zapata!

" He also notes that it strengthened his friendship with another outsider, Tennessee Williams, with whom he collaborated on numerous plays and films.

The following year, she played her last great leading role in a superlative film, The Night of the Iguana ( 1964 ), based upon a Tennessee Williams play and starring Richard Burton as an atheist clergyman and Deborah Kerr as a gentle artist traveling with her aged poet grandfather.

I spent a lot of time like that, seeing Brecht, Tennessee Williams, Ibsen, and all that.

* Rose Williams: Sister of Tennessee Williams.

In a letter to Andrew Johnson, the military governor of Tennessee, encouraging him to lead the way in raising black troops, Lincoln wrote, " The bare sight of 50, 000 armed and drilled black soldiers on the banks of the Mississippi would end the rebellion at once ".

Speaking of his early days as a playwright and referring to an early collaborative play called Cairo, Shanghai, Bombay !, produced while he was a part of an amateur summer theater group in Memphis, Tennessee, Williams wrote, " The laughter ... enchanted me.

Achilles Clark, a soldier with the 20th Tennessee cavalry, wrote to his sister immediately after the battle: " The slaughter was awful.

Union Gen. S. A. Hurlburt wrote of these troops in a dispatch dated December 17, 1863: " The recent affair at Moscow, Tennessee, has demonstrated the fact that colored troops, properly trained and disciplined, can and will fight well.

Compton Newby Crook, who was born in Rossville, Tennessee and who wrote science fiction under the pseudonym Stephen Tall, grew up in Moscow.

In 2006, award winning novelist John Green wrote a novel titled An Abundance of Katherines which took place mainly in Milan, Tennessee.

* Pee Wee King, pioneer in the country and western music industry ; wrote " Tennessee Waltz " and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1974

Playwright Tennessee Williams became an admirer of her acting and wrote The Rose Tattoo specifically for her to star in, a role for which she received her first Oscar in 1955.

Tennessee Williams wrote the screenplay and based the character of Serafina on Magnani, as Williams was a great admirer of her acting abilities, and he even stipulated that the movie " must star what Time described as ' the most explosive emotional actress of her generation, Anna Magnani.

Although the film's title card says " Tennessee Williams ' Baby Doll ", and the film is based on Williams ' one-act play 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, in his autobiography director Elia Kazan claimed that Williams was only " half-heartedly " involved in writing the screenplay, of which Kazan himself actually wrote the majority.

Professor Linda Badley of Middle Tennessee State University wrote in her 1996 book Writing Horror and the Body on the trilogy that rewriting the myth of Sleeping Beauty as sadomasochistic fantasies enabled Anne Rice to explore " liminal areas of experience that could not be articulated in conventional literature, extant pornography, or politically correct discourse.

The Tennessee State Commission charged with locating the grave and erecting the monument wrote in its official report that it was likely Lewis was murdered.

A Louisiana writer, Robert D. Patrick, compared Morgan to Francis Marion and wrote that " a few thousands of such men as his would regain us Kentucky and Tennessee.

Author Tennessee Williams wrote his one-act play The Last of My Solid Gold Watches with Greenstreet in mind, and dedicated it to him.

With Tennessee Williams's encouragement, Inge wrote his first play, Farther Off from Heaven ( 1947 ), which was staged at Margo Jones ' Theatre ' 47 in Dallas, Texas.

The president was upset but, as the journalist Len Green wrote in 1978, " Although angered by the Choctaw refusal to meet him in Tennessee, Jackson felt from LeFlore's words that he might have a foot in the door and dispatched Secretary of War Eaton and John Coffee to meet with the Choctaws in their nation.

" Thomas L. Connelly, historian of the Army of Tennessee, wrote that despite the imposing appearance of Lookout Mountain, " the mountain's strength was a myth.

He also toured in road companies of such shows as Tobacco Road and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, in which he was properly emaciated as the cancer-ridden Big Daddy, a part, he said, which Tennessee Williams wrote for him.

Cyrus Thomas, who conducted a mound survey in the area for the Smithsonian Institution in the 1880s, wrote that the Little Tennessee River was " undoubtedly the most interesting archaeological section in the entire Appalachian district.

After his retirement from active broadcasting he moved to Knoxville, Tennessee to an apartment across the Tennessee River from the University of Tennessee campus from which he had a view of Neyland Stadium, the Volunteers ' home field, and wrote an autobiographical memoir entitled Hello Everybody, I'm Lindsey Nelson, his landmark opening phrase.

In 1810, John Sevier, the first governor of Tennessee, wrote to his friend Major Amos Stoddard about a conversation he had had in 1782 with the old Cherokee chief Oconostota concerning ancient fortifications built along the Alabama River.