"in a black-and-white film), and Gabriel Figueroa (for Best Black-and-white Cinematography). Ava Gardner was nominated for a Golden Globe and a BAFTA as best actress. A statue of John Huston stands in Puerto Vallarta, celebrating the film's role in making the area a popular destination. Notes The Night of the Iguana (film) The Night of the Iguana is a 1964 film based on the 1961 play of the same name written by Tennessee Williams. Directed by John Huston, it featured Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, and Deborah Kerr. The film won the 1964 Academy Award for Best Costume Design, and was"
"later work, he attempted a new style that did not appeal to audiences. Increasing alcohol and drug dependence inhibited his creative expression. 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"". Much of Williams' 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. Thomas"
"over 15 productions—the best being ""Iremos a Valparaíso "" by Marcel Achard at the Odeón Theater on 13 May 1949; "" “Un tranvía llamado deseo” (A Streetcar Named Desire) by Tennessee Williams at the Casino Theater on 7 July 1952; ""Rueda de amantes"" by Regás Luz Maria and Juan Albornoz at the Casino Theater on 27 July 1953; ""Anna Karenina"" by Raymond Rouleau, based on Leo Tolstoy’s novel at the Casino Theater on 11 June 1953; "" Tú el ángel y yo el demonio "" by Maria Luz Regás and Juan Albornoz at the Versailles Theater on 6 April 1954;"
"Alex North Alex North (born Isadore Soifer, December 4, 1910 – September 8, 1991) was an American composer best known for his many film scores, including ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" (one of the first jazz-based film scores), ""Viva Zapata!"", ""Spartacus"", ""Cleopatra"", and ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"". He was the first composer to receive an Honorary Academy Award but never won a competitive Oscar despite fourteen nominations. North was born Isadore Soifer in Chester, Pennsylvania to Russian Jewish parents. North managed to integrate his modernism into typical film music leitmotif structure, rich with themes. One of these became the famous"
"plays: ""The Pretty Trap"" (1944) for ""The Glass Menagerie"", ""Interior: Panic"" (1946) for ""A Streetcar Named Desire"", ""Kingdom of Earth"" (1967) for ""The Seven Descents of Myrtle"", ""I Never Get Dressed Till After Dark on Sundays"" (1973) for ""Vieux Carré"", and ""Some Problems for the Moose Lodge"" (1980) for ""A House Not Meant to Stand"". The Magic Tower and Other One-Act Plays The Magic Tower and Other One-Act Plays is a collection of 15 plays, seven of them previously unpublished, by American playwright Tennessee Williams. Published by New Directions in New York City in 2011, Williams' scholar Thomas Keith edited"
"Kim Hunter Kim Hunter (born Janet Cole; November 12, 1922 – September 11, 2002) was an American film, theatre, and television actress. She won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, each as Best Supporting Actress, for her performance as Stella Kowalski in the 1951 film ""A Streetcar Named Desire"". Decades later, she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for her work on the long-running soap opera ""The Edge of Night"". She also portrayed the character of chimpanzee Zira in the first three installments of the original film adaptation ""Planet of the Apes"". Hunter was born in"
"Later, he would observe that he ""lost Vivien"" in Australia. The success of the tour encouraged the Oliviers to make their first West End appearance together, performing the same works with one addition, ""Antigone,"" included at Leigh's insistence because she wished to play a role in a tragedy. 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. The play contained a rape"
"also based on her. Amanda Wingfield in ""The Glass Menagerie"" was generally taken to represent Williams' mother, Edwina. Characters such as Tom Wingfield in ""The Glass Menagerie"" and Sebastian in ""Suddenly, Last Summer"" were understood to represent Williams himself. In addition, he used a lobotomy as a motif in ""Suddenly, Last Summer"". The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was awarded to ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" in 1948 and to ""Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"" in 1955. These two plays were later adapted as highly successful films, by noted directors Elia Kazan (""Streetcar""), with whom Williams developed a very close artistic"
"the ""New York Times"" described him as ""one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history."" The ""Death of a Salesman"" and ""A Streetcar Named Desire"", two plays he directed, are considered to be some of the greatest of the 20th century. Although he became a respected director on Broadway, he made an equally impressive transition into one of the major film directors of his time. Critic William Baer notes that throughout his career ""he constantly rose to the challenge of his own aspirations"", adding that ""he was a pioneer and visionary who greatly affected the"
"In productions at the Herberger Theater in Phoenix he was Johnny Merrick in ""The Elephant Man"" and the defense attorney in ""The Night of January 16"". He recently received two awards from ""Los Angeles Weekly"" and the 8th annual Artistic Director Achievement Award, Valley Theater League of California for the leading actor in Tennessee Williams' ""A Streetcar Named Desire"". He was nominated for his leading role in ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" by the Los Angeles Drama Circle Critics award, as well. He has been nominated by Los Angeles Ovation for ""Featured Actor in a Musical"" in ""Oliver!"" performed at the"
"Blanche DuBois Blanche DuBois (married name Grey) is a fictional character in Tennessee Williams' 1947 Pulitzer Prize-winning play ""A Streetcar Named Desire"". The character was written for Tallulah Bankhead. Blanche DuBois arrives, penniless, in New Orleans to stay with her sister Stella and her brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski. A former schoolteacher from a wealthy family, she has been evicted from her family home, ""Belle Reve"", after the deaths of several family members wiped out her and Stella's inheritance. It is also later revealed that, years earlier, her husband, Allan Grey, committed suicide after she caught him having sex with another man."
"""Volpone"". Sullivan's Broadway acting credits include the 1973 revival of ""A Streetcar Named Desire"", ""The Merchant of Venice"" (1973), ""The Playboy of the Western World"" (1971),""The Good Woman of Setzuan"", and ""Camino Real"". In addition to his directing, Sullivan currently holds the Swanlund Chair at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Sullivan has two daughters and a son. His wife is an actress, choreographer and noted acting teacher, Mimi Lieber. Daniel J. Sullivan Daniel J. Sullivan (born June 11, 1940) is an American theatre and film director and playwright. Sullivan was born in Wray, Colorado, the son of Mary Catherine (née"
"of the busy work. At the same time, he began to manage and produce his own artists as well, beginning with John Lewis and Gunther Schuller's Orchestra U.S.A. ensemble; singer/songwriter Bob Morrison; and saxophonist Charles Lloyd. Though most known for jazz and pop album production, Avakian notably involved himself in two theater projects. In 1947, he arranged for a group of musicians under the leadership of the saxophonist Eddie Barefield to perform incidental music for the play ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" during its Philadelphia and Broadway runs. In 1965, he was an associate producer of the first Off-Broadway revival of"
"several weeks on the road, they reached Boston, by which time Bankhead was ready to dismiss him. This proved to be one of the greatest blessings of his career, as it freed him up to play the role of Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams's 1947 play ""A Streetcar Named Desire"", directed by Elia Kazan. Bankhead had recommended him to Williams for the role of Stanley, thinking he was perfect for the part. Pierpont writes that John Garfield was first choice for the role, but ""made impossible demands."" It was Kazan's decision to fall back on the far less experienced (and"
"Stella Kowalski Stella Kowalski (née DuBois) is one of the main characters in Tennessee Williams' play ""A Streetcar Named Desire"". She is the younger sister of central character Blanche DuBois and wife of Stanley Kowalski. The play begins when Blanche comes to visit Stella and Stanley in New Orleans after having lost their family home, Belle Reve, and her job as a teacher in Laurel, Mississippi. We gather that Stella was a Southern belle who left her home town to find work after her family fell on hard times. In New Orleans, she met her soon-to-be husband, Stanley Kowalski, who"
"Claire Bloom Patricia Claire Blume, (born 15 February 1931), better known by her stage name Claire Bloom, is an English film and stage actress whose career has spanned over six decades. She is known for leading roles in plays such as ""A Streetcar Named Desire,"" ""A Doll's House"", and ""Long Day's Journey into Night"", and has starred in nearly sixty films. After a childhood in war-torn England, Bloom studied drama. She debuted on the London stage when she was sixteen and soon took roles in various Shakespeare plays. They included ""Hamlet,"" in which she played Ophelia alongside Richard Burton. For"
"of debris that has washed ashore, and none have been modernized with running water or electricity. Over the last century, many famous artists have spent time in the Dune Shacks for creative inspiration, including: playwright Eugene O'Neill (""A Streetcar Named Desire"", ""Death of a Salesman""), poet and abolitionist Henry David Thoreau (""Walden"", ""Civil Disobedience""), abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock (""Mural on Indian Red Ground"", ""No. 5, 1948"") and iconoclast novelist Jack Kerouac (""The Town and the City"", ""Big Sur""). During each one of the seven days Bannon spent at C-Scape Dune Shack, he wrote and recorded a piano-driven track through"
"at the Gateway Playhouse, in the 1959 season, he appeared in lead roles as Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams' ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" (July–August 1959), Maxwell Archer in ""Once More with Feeling"", Igor Romanoff in Peter Ustinov's ""Romanoff and Juliet"", and Joe Mancuso in Kyle Crichton's ""The Happiest Millionaire"" (all in August 1959). At the Neighborhood Playhouse, Meisner cast him in Tennessee Williams' ""Camino Real"" and the title role of Harvey Weems in Foote's one-act play ""The Midnight Caller"". The latter was already part of Duvall's performance credits by mid-July 1957. Duvall made his off-Broadway debut at the Gate Theater"
"several of which ran off Broadway. ""Awoke One"" was produced at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in 1992; ""The Sea of Chairs"" was produced by the Medicine Show Theatre Ensemble in 1993; and ""Love Thy Neighbor"" was produced at HERE Theatre in 1994. ""Dream Star Café"" ran at Theater for the New City from January 31 to February 24, 2002. He also translated plays; for example, his English translation of Alberto Adellach's ""Sabina and Lucrecia"" was performed by the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre in Spring 1991. In 1973, Agüeros won a Council on Interracial Books for Children (CIBC) literary award in"
"Henry Kissinger, Dame Margot Fonteyn, Rudolph Nureyev, James Beard,Tennessee Williams, (Staggs, 2005) Jose Ferrer, Rita Hayworth and Aga Khan (Frommer, 2007), The Doors (Densmore, 1990), and George H. W. Bush. Williams worked on his classic play ""Streetcar Named Desire"" while staying at the Pontchartrain Hotel. (Staggs, 2005) The Aschaffenburg family sold the Pontchartrain to a real estate concern in the late 1980's During the 60 years of the Family's ownership and management the Pontchartrain and its Caribbean Room received many honors - top rating in the Guide Julliard de Paris, Harpers & Queens 200 Best Hotels in the World, The"
"dances which has been performed in Europe and North America several times. For six years, he appeared under the direction of Ariane Mnouchkine with the Théâtre du Soleil and had major parts in plays such as ""Tartuffe"", ""la Ville Parjure"" and ""Les Atrides"". His theatre performances include Shakespeare's ""Twelfth Night"" with the Terrain Vague Company, ""Romeo and Juliette"" directed by Lionnel Briands, ""Dionysos, the Baccantes"" of Euripide directed by Usevio Lazaro, ""Soldier Tale"" of Strawinsky in theatre Athenée directed by Antoine Campo, ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" of Tennessee Williams directed by Phillip Adrian, and Bassa Selim in Mozart's ""Die Entführung"
"The character is reputedly named after theatre critic Blanche Marvin, a former actress and friend of Williams. Blanche DuBois Blanche DuBois (married name Grey) is a fictional character in Tennessee Williams' 1947 Pulitzer Prize-winning play ""A Streetcar Named Desire"". The character was written for Tallulah Bankhead. Blanche DuBois arrives, penniless, in New Orleans to stay with her sister Stella and her brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski. A former schoolteacher from a wealthy family, she has been evicted from her family home, ""Belle Reve"", after the deaths of several family members wiped out her and Stella's inheritance. It is also later revealed that,"
"Blvd. In 2005, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Karl Malden Karl Malden (born Mladen George Sekulovich; March 22, 1912 – July 1, 2009) was an American actor. He was primarily a character actor who ""for more than 60 years brought an intelligent intensity and a homespun authenticity to roles in theater, film and television"", especially in such classic films as ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" (1951) — for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor — ""On the Waterfront"" (1954), ""Pollyanna"""
"Streetcar Names Desire"". Williams presents the setting as multi-cultural and vibrant with Jazz culture and social life. Blanche Dubois, the tragic heroine of the play, is seen to be ""incongruous"" to the setting, which is used by Williams' to highlight the cosmopolitan nature of the city and decay of the Old South, which Blanche symbolises. Elysian Fields Avenue Elysian Fields Avenue is a broad, straight avenue in New Orleans named after the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris. It courses south to north from the Lower Mississippi River to Lake Pontchartrain, a distance of approximately . The avenue intersects with Interstate"
"his score for the 1976 television miniseries ""Rich Man, Poor Man"", and went on to score the sequel ""Rich Man, Poor Man Book II"" and the 1978 miniseries ""The Word"". North is also known for his opening to the CBS television anthology series ""Playhouse 90"" and the 1965 ABC television miniseries ""FDR"". In 2016, the Library of Congress added North's 1951 recording of his score to ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" to its National Recording Registry. The American Film Institute ranked North's score for ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" #19 on their list of the greatest film scores. His scores for the"
"diction"". He wrote ""The Night of the Iguana"" (1961) with Hepburn in mind, but the actress, although flattered, felt the play was wrong for her and declined the part, which went to Bette Davis. Hepburn returned to Stratford in the summer of 1960 to play Viola in ""Twelfth Night"", and Cleopatra in ""Antony and Cleopatra"". The ""New York Post"" wrote of her Cleopatra, ""Hepburn offers a highly versatile performance ... once or twice going in for her famous mannerisms and always being fascinating to watch."" Hepburn herself was proud of the role. Her repertoire was further improved when she appeared"
"a resemblance to him. He then joined the Army, but went AWOL, and after serving a sentence in a military prison, he moved to New York, where he began his acting career. His mother died when he was 19. Jones (adopting the stage name Christopher) made his Broadway debut on December 17, 1961, in Tennessee Williams's ""The Night of the Iguana"", directed by Frank Corsaro and starring Shelley Winters. Winters introduced Jones to actress Susan Strasberg, the daughter of method-acting progenitor Lee Strasberg. Jones studied at Strasberg's Actors Studio. Jones married Susan in 1965; the couple divorced in 1968. Their"
"all of the cast and crew were based all across the world during the performance, with the three main cast members being located in Bath, New York City and San Diego. For this performance The Hamnet Players moved away from Shakespeare for the first time, and this time used the Tennessee Williams play 'A Streetcar Named Desire', as the plot basis for their performance. Harris worked out most of the details himself; to start with all performances were completed in GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). He used two different strategies to cast the various roles. For the performances of ""Hamnet,"" Harris"
"was due to how well he varied his acting with the three female characters, each of whom he tries to seduce differently: Ava Gardner (the randy hotel owner), Sue Lyon (the nubile American tourist), and Deborah Kerr (the poor, repressed artist). The success of ""Becket"" and ""The Night of the Iguana"" led ""Time"" magazine to term him ""the new Mr. Box Office"". During the production of ""Becket"", Burton went to watch Gielgud perform in the 1963 stage adaptation of Thornton Wilder's 1948 novel, ""The Ides of March"". There he was confronted by Gielgud who asked what Burton planned to do"
"Tennessee Williams Thomas Lanier ""Tennessee"" Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) was an American playwright. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama. After years of obscurity, at age 33 he became suddenly famous with the success of ""The Glass Menagerie"" (1944) in New York City. This play 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), and ""Sweet Bird of Youth"" (1959). With his"
"Stanley Kowalski in ""A Streetcar Named Desire"", at the Tony Award-winning, South Coast Repertory Theatre, Jim Morrison, in the Doors musical, ""Celebration of the Lizard"", produced by Doors co-founder and keyboardist, Ray Manzerek, at the San Diego Repertory Theatre and the title role in Shakespeare's ""Coriolanus"". He also played the lead role of Markus, in the west coast première of Rob Ackerman's dark comedy, ""Table Top"", at the Laguna Playhouse and, most recently, starred as Mack the Knife, in San Diego Repertory's production of ""The Threepenny Opera"". He has received two Dramalogue Awards. At the University of California, Irvine he"
"Paul Osborn Paul Osborn (September 4, 1901 – May 12, 1988) was an American playwright and screenwriter. Osborn's notable original plays are ""The Vinegar Tree"", ""Oliver Oliver"", and ""Morning's at Seven"" and among his several successful adaptations, ""On Borrowed Time"" has proved particularly popular. Counted among his best-known screenplays would be the adaptation of John Steinbeck's ""East of Eden"" and ""Wild River"" for his friend Elia Kazan, ""South Pacific"" and ""Sayonara"" directed by Joshua Logan, as well as ""Madame Curie"", ""The Yearling"", and ""Portrait of Jennie"". Born in Evansville, Indiana, he grew up in Michigan where his father was a"
"Annalee Jefferies Annalee Jefferies (born May 14, 1954, in Houston, Texas) is an American stage actress. Ms. Jefferies was in the nine-hour trilogy of Horton Foot’s “Orphan’s Home Cycle” in NY, directed by Michael Wilson, which won the Drama Desk Award for “Theatrical Event of the Season” of 2010 . She’s played Blanche in “Streetcar Named Desire,” Violet in “ Suddenly Last Summer”, Hannah in “Night of the Iguana”, Carol in “Orpheus Descending,”, Amanda in “The Glass Menagerie” which was among the Wall Street Journal’s best 10 productions of 2009. She toured England in John Barton’s ten hourepic Tantalus, directed"