- published: 04 Feb 2016
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Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) was an American writer who worked principally as a playwright in the American theater. He also wrote short stories, novels, poetry, essays, screenplays and a volume of memoirs. His professional career lasted from the mid 1930s until his death in 1983, and saw the creation of many plays that are regarded as classics of the American stage. Williams adapted much of his best known work for the cinema.
Williams received virtually all of the top theatrical awards for his works of drama, including several New York Drama Critics' Circle awards, a Tony Award for best play for The Rose Tattoo (1951) and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Streetcar Named Desire (1948) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955). In 1980 he was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter and is today acknowledged as one of the most accomplished playwrights in the history of English speaking theater.
Theater scholar Charlotte Canning, of the University of Texas at Austin where Williams' archives are located, has said, "There is no more influential 20th-century American playwright than Tennessee Williams... He inspired future generations of writers as diverse as Suzan-Lori Parks, Tony Kushner, David Mamet and John Waters, and his plays remain among the most produced in the world."
Actors: Jena Malone (actress), Antonia Campbell-Hughes (actress), Abigail Disney (producer), Blair Breard (producer), Logan Marshall-Green (actor), Deborah Kampmeier (writer), Deborah Kampmeier (director), Troy Johanson (producer), Sarah Schulman (writer), Christopher Pensiero (editor), Carlos Dews (producer), Brad Bender (producer),
Plot: The story of Carson McCullers -1940's southern author of Heart Is A Lonely Hunter and Member of the Wedding - and her two tumultuous marriages to the same man. Best friend of Tennessee Williams, mentor of Truman Capote, roommate of Gypsy Rose Lee, collaborator with Ethel Waters, she was a wild woman who transgressed gender laws and the color bar searching to understand her own mysterious passions.
Genres: Drama,Actors: Baris Çakmak (actor), Baris Çakmak (producer), Baris Çakmak (writer), Baris Çakmak (director), Joel Knox (editor), Joel Knox (producer), Joel Knox (director), Joel Knox (writer),
Genres: Biography, Drama, Short,Actors: Richard Thomas (actor), Ray Walston (actor), Judith Ivey (actress), Matt Moore (actor), A. Dean Bell (director), Ginny Martin (editor), Jim Johnson (actor), Rob Tranchin (producer), Rob Tranchin (writer), Kay Cattarulla (director), Kay Cattarulla (producer), Kay Cattarulla (writer), Rob Trachin (director), Stephen Levall (actor),
Genres: Documentary,Denise Williams & Peabo Bryson
Come bring me your softness
Comfort me through all this madness
Woman, don't you know with you I'm born again
Come give me your sweetness
Now there's you there is no weakness
Lying safe within your arms I'm born again
I was half, not whole
In step with none
Reaching through this world
In need of one
Come show me your kindness
In your arms I know I'll find this
Woman, don't you know, with you I'm born again
Lying safe with you I'm born again
Come bring me your softness
Comfort me through all this madness
Woman, don't you know with you I'm born again
Come give me your sweetness
Now there's you there is no weakness
Lying safe within your arms I'm born again
Woman, don't you know with you I'm born again
I was half, not whole
In step with none
Reaching through this world
In need of one
Come show me your kindness
In your arms I know I'll find this
Woman, don't you know with you I'm born again