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Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), better known as Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright who receive many of the top theatrical awards. He moved to New Orleans in 1939 and changed his name to "Tennessee," the state of his father's birth. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948 and for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1955. In addition, The Glass Menagerie (1945) and The Night of the Iguana (1961) received New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards. His 1952 play The Rose Tattoo received the Tony Award for best play.

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  • Marlon Brando played Stanley Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire" by this American playwright
  • Fading actresses are the heroines of his novel "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone" & his play "Sweet Bird of Youth"
  • A defrocked minister-turned-tour guide is the leading character in his play "The Night of the Iguana"
  • "The Glass Menagerie"
  • Rex Reed claims he saw this Southern playwright almost hit by a bus named Desire
  • Gooper Pollitt,Jim O'Connor,Stella Kowalski
  • This southern playwright's first novel, "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone", became a film starring Vivian Leigh
  • His daddy used to say, "You're makin' me nervous as a cat on a hot tin roof!"
  • In 1945 this playwright won his first N.Y. Drama Critics Circle Award, for "The Glass Menagerie"
  • "Summer And Smoke"
  • A rundown Mexican hotel is the setting for "The Night of the Iguana", a play by this writer
  • The works of this two-time Pulitzer Prize winner are set largely in the American south
  • Critic Walter Kerr called this man's "Camino Real" "The worst play yet written by the best playwright of his generation"
  • He penned the lines, "They looked nervous as cats... nervous as a couple of cats on a hot tin roof"
  • Bruce Dern & Rip Torn were in the original cast of this playwright's "Sweet Bird of Youth"
  • This playwright once said that his Aunt Belle, a Sunday School teacher, was the prototype of Blanche DuBois
  • Tom Wingfield, the narrator of this man's "The Glass Menagerie", calls it a "memory play"
  • While working at the International Shoe Company, he met a man named Stanley Kowalski, a name he would later use in a play
  • "A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur" is a lesser play by this man with a southern state in his name
  • "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
  • The 1999 Tony for Scenic Design went to "Not About Nightingales" by this late Southern playwright
  • "Hard Candy" was a 1954 collection of short stories by this "Rose Tattoo" playwright
  • His given names were Thomas Lanier, but he adopted a more "stately" name
  • This Southerner wrote a play about Zelda Fitzgerald called "Clothes for a Summer Hotel"
  • Cathy reveals that "Suddenly, Last Summer" cousin Sebastian was cannibalized in a play by this man
  • The Kennedy Center presented a series of one-act plays as "Five by Tenn", a reference to this playwright
  • Mercedes Ruehl played the lusty Serafina Delle Rose in the 1995 revival of his play "The Rose Tattoo"
  • This Southerner wrote the 1959 classic "Sweet Bird of Youth"
  • In March 2011, Columbus, Mississippi celebrated what would have been the 100th birthday of this playwright
  • Late southern playwright who co-wrote "You Touched Me!", a comedy based on a story by D.H. Lawrence
  • His 1977 play "Vieux Carre" dealt with down-&-outs in New Orleans; sound familiar?
  • This playwright's "The Night of the Iguana" takes place at the rustic Costa Verde Hotel in Mexico
  • This playwright choked to death in 1983 at NYC's hotel Elysee; a character of his exits a streetcar at "Elysian Fields"
  • "This Property is Condemned " is based on a 1-act play by this author of "The Glass Menagerie"
  • "A Streetcar..." is an abstract ballet inspired by the work of this playwright
  • The University of Iowa gave this future 2-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright a B.A. in 1938
  • He won Pulitzers for his plays in 1948 & 1955
  • Author Thomas Lanier Williams
  • Eleanor took Indira Gandhi to see this man's play "The Night Of The Iguana"; it left both ladies "a little baffled"
  • 1982 recipients included Mother Teresa & this "Big Daddy" of Southern playwrights
  • A famous line in one of his plays is "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers"
  • His Southern belle play "The Eccentricities of a Nightingale" is a revision of his more famous "Summer and Smoke"
  • This Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright was related to John Sevier, the first governor of the "Volunteer State"

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  • RT @_chapter_3: Say a prayer For the wild at heart Kept in cages ~Tennessee Williams
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  • @rizzoli_ma Which, then, reminds me of George Jean Nathan's furious and persistent disliking of Tennessee Williams.
  • RT @JamesErith: "@WriterJimDenney: "I’m only really alive when I’m writing." —Tennessee Williams #AmWriting"
  • "I don't want realism. I want magic!" Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire. #Mississippian #author #magic
  • “Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.” ― Tennessee Williams #BreakingPoint
  • Pink Triangle: The Feuds and Private Lives of Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Truman Cap...
  • @MyFarAwayOne @Robo_Pops Tennessee Williams is one of my all time favourites
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  • "The flowers in the mountains have broken through the rocks"__Tennessee Williams
  • RT @BurgessHillTC: For Tennessee Williams fans, our next production is Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. 15th - 18th Oct. Save the dates we'd love to …
  • Há um tempo para partir, mesmo quando não há um lugar certo para ir. Tennessee Williams
  • HOT OF THE PRESS!!! The fastest-selling production in the Young Vic’s history, Tennessee Williams’ timeless...
  • For Tennessee Williams fans, our next production is Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. 15th - 18th Oct. Save the dates we'd love to see you there :)
  • "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." Tennessee Williams #Quotes
  • Tennessee Williams~ The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isnt so funny.
  • "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." Tennessee Williams
  • "Make voyages! Attempt them...there's nothing else." Tennessee Williams #travelquote
  • Stritch: drink of choice depended on playwright: "For Tennessee Williams, it was vodka. For Neil Simon, scotch. I was a method drinker.”
  • "¿Por qué escribo? Porque encuentro la vida poco satisfactoria" Tennessee Williams
  • "…say a prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages." - Tennessee Williams, Camino Real  (via...
  • I LOVE Tennessee Williams – I did my dissertation on him for my degree
  • Tout aurait pu être n'importe quoi d'autre, et cela aurait eu tout autant de sens, comme le dit le poète Tennessee Williams. - Nemo Nobody
  • Out of the entire bookcase full of plays, how do I not own a Tennessee Williams or Edward Albee drama? #TheatreProblems
  • RT @Jillzarin: There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. ~Tennessee Williams #QuoteOfTheDay @skweezcouture @…
  • I think that hate is a thing, a feeling, that can only exist where there is no understanding - Tennessee Williams #LoveOthers
  • RT @NiagarasFinest: Theatrical interlude this morning with Tennessee Williams one act play A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur @ShawTheatre 11:…
  • Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else. Tennessee Williams #Quotes
  • "@SALMOS_BIBLICOS: Creo que el odio es un sentimiento que sólo puede existir en ausencia de toda inteligencia. Tennessee Williams"
  • Theatrical interlude this morning with Tennessee Williams one act play A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur @ShawTheatre 11:30am
  • There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. ~Tennessee Williams #QuoteOfTheDay @skweezcouture @JZFINEJewelry
  • @mrtcropper I am still waiting. 1341 in the virtual queue. Irritation is quite real though. I LOVE Tennessee Williams but this is hard.
  • Tennessee Williams On The Invention of Religion | Follies Of God by James Grissom
  • Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else. - Tennessee Williams
  • It'll be more Tennessee Williams' "Memoirs" than home cooking l would imagine #thelifeandlovesofahedevil @SPOKE_Festival @grahnort
  • "Tutte le persone crudeli si definiscono campioni di sincerità". Tennessee Williams
  • Rehearsals kick off for 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' by Tennessee Williams, tonight. 13 weeks to show week :)
  • Wrong city, but I'll pay that! (It was Tennessee Williams, and Memphis is in Tennessee...) RT: @payney73 A Streetcar Named On Fire
  • RT @gilesmatthey: Both of us chillin! Welcome to the family Charlie. He shall read the complete works of Tennessee Williams by tommo http:/…
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  • "If I got rid of my demons, I'd lose my angels" - Tennessee Williams
  • #FACT : Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), seorang penulis terkenal, meninggal krn tersedak tutup botol obat tetes mata.
  • All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness. --Tennessee Williams #quote via @alphabetsuccess
  • "Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”Tennessee Williams
  • "I’m not good. I don’t know why people have to pretend to be good, nobody’s good." - Tennessee Williams,...
  • To be free is to have achieved your life. - Tennessee Williams
  • You can be young without money but you can't be old without it Tennessee Williams
  • RT @joshbelville: Sleeping with the covers off, like a goddamn Tennessee Williams character.