The Glass Menagerie
Amanda Wingfield dominates her children with faded gentility and exaggerated tales of her Southern belle past.
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"This is about the fourth version of this play I have seen and like all the movie versions I've seen, it lacks something compared to the Broadway version I saw. There is something more intimate in seeing it live...live as Tennessee Williams originally intended his play. This is a made for television version starring Shirley Booth, as the annoying and super-talkative head of the Wingfield family. She is a woman who talks a lot but says very little most of the time...a woman who almost seems to talk just to hear herself. Her son, Tom (Hal Holbrook) is a guy with secrets* and he frequently s..."
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The movie was lost for decades. In 2015, the unedited video footage was found and it was reconstructed using an audio recording that a viewer had captured during the broadcast and later uploaded to The Internet Archive. It aired on Turner Classic Movies 50 years from the day of the original telecast.
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Amanda Wingfield dominates her children with faded gentility and exaggerated tales of her Southern belle past.