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En Nueva Orleans, en 1937, la joven Catherine Holly (Elizabeth Taylor) es internada en un hospital psiquiátrico gracias a su tía, Violet Venable (Katharine Hepburn), una adinerada viuda que ha perdido a su hijo cuando este estaba en compañía de Catherine. El hospital en el que trabaja el doctor Cukrowicz (Montgomery Clift ...
Suddenly, Last Summer is a 1959 Southern Gothic mystery film based on the 1958 play of the same name by Tennessee Williams. The film was shot in England, Spain and the Balearic Islands.
Suddenly, Last Summer: Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. With Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift, Albert Dekker. A surgeon is assigned the case of a young woman whose aunt wants her lobotomized to cover up a family secret.
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In 1936, in the Garden District of New Orleans,[a] Mrs. Violet Venable, an elderly socialite widow from a prominent local family, has invited a doctor to her home. She talks nostalgically about her son Sebastian, a poet who died under mysterious circumstances in Spain the previous summer.[b] During the course of their conversation, she offers to ma...
From its first page, the script is rich in symbolic detail open to many interpretations.: 3 The "mansion of Victorian Gothic style" immediately connects the play with Southern Gothic literature, with which it shares many characteristics.: 229 Sebastian's "jungle-garden," with its "violent" colours and noises of "beasts, serpents, and birds ... of s...
1958 original production
The original production of the play was performed off Broadway on January 7, 1958, along with Something Unspoken, under the collective title of Garden District, at the York Theatre on First Avenue in New York, staged by the York Playhouse. Anne Meacham won an Obie Award (Annual Off-Broadway Theatre Awards 1956 –) for her performance as Catharine. The production also featured Hortense Alden as Mrs. Venable, Robert Lansingas Dr. Cukrowicz, Eleanor Phelps as Mrs. Holly, and Alan Mixon as George...
1959 film
The film version was released by Columbia Pictures, in 1959, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, and Montgomery Clift; it was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz from a screenplay by Gore Vidal and Williams. The movie differed greatly from the stage version, adding many scenes, characters, and subplots. The Hollywood Production Code forced the filmmakers to cut out the explicit references to homosexuality. The movie received three Academy Awards nominations: Hepburn and Taylor were bot...
1993 BBC TV play
The play was adapted for BBC television in 1993 under the direction of Royal National Theatre head Richard Eyre, and starring Maggie Smith, Rob Lowe, Richard E. Grant, and Natasha Richardson. It aired in America on PBS as an episode of Great Performances. Smith was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie. According to Lowe, his personal driver during the production of the telefilm was also the personal driver for Montgomery Clifton the 1959 film.
Garden District at the Internet Broadway DatabaseSuddenly, Last Summer (1959 film) at IMDbSuddenly, Last Summer (1993 TV movie) at IMDbTítulo original: Suddenly, Last Summer. Sinopsis: En la Nueva Orleans de 1937, una rica viuda, la señora Venable, ofrece al doctor Cukrowicz los fondos para crear un hospital a condición de que practique una lobotomía a su sobrina Catherine.
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In this adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play, young socialite Catherine Holly (Elizabeth Taylor) is traumatized and committed after witnessing her cousin's violent death on a...
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En la Nueva Orleans de 1937, una rica viuda, la señora Venable, ofrece al doctor Cukrowicz los fondos para crear un hospital a condición de que practique una lobotomía a su sobrina Catherine.
