The Glass Menagerie (1950)
Release Date: Sep 28, 1950 Wide
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Adapted from the play by Tennessee Williams, Glass Menagerie centers around four unhappy people living in a rundown section of St. Louis. Tom, the story's narrator (Arthur Kennedy) is a poetic idealist trapped in a dead-end job, drowning his sorrows in booze. Tom lives with his mother Amanda (Gertrude Lawrence), a faded Southern belle who lives in the past, and with his crippled older sister Laura (Jane Wyman), an intensely shy woman who escapes from reality by keeping a "glass menagerie" of
Sep 28, 1950 Wide
Cast
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Jane Wyman
Laura Wingfield -
Kirk Douglas
Gentleman Caller -
Gertrude Lawrence
Amanda Wingfield -
Arthur Kennedy
Tom Wingfield -
Ralph Sanford
Mendoza -
Ann Tyrrell
Clerk -
John Compton
Young Man -
Gertrude Graner
Woman Instructor -
Chris Alcaide
Eddie -
Perdita Chandler
A Girl -
Sarah Edwards
Mrs. Miller -
James Horn
Caller -
Louise Lorimer
Miss Porter -
Sean McClory
Richard
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The Glass Menagerie has a lot going for it, even if director Irving Rapper (Now, Voyager) misses several opportunities to take the characters deeper.
The first film to be made out of Tennessee Williams play is one oe the weakest; it's still theater and Gertrude Lawrence is miscast in the lead.
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