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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.
Catherine Holly (Elizabeth Taylor) is a young woman institutionalized for a severe emotional disturbance that came about when her cousin, Sebastian Venable, died under questionable circumstances while they were on holiday in Spain a few months earlier.
In this adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play, young socialite Catherine Holly (Elizabeth Taylor) is traumatized and committed after witnessing her cousin's...
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Suddenly Last Summer is a one-act play by Tennessee Williams, written in New York in 1957. [1] It opened off Broadway on January 7, 1958, as part of a double bill with another of Williams' one-acts, Something Unspoken (written in London in 1951).
Suddenly, Last Summer. A dowager tries to buy a lobotomy to silence the woman who witnessed her son's murder. In 1937, at the Lyons View State Asylum in New Orleans, Louisiana, Dr. John Cukrowicz performs a delicate experimental surgery known as a lobotomy. After the primitive conditions at the institution nearly derail the operation, however ...
Suddenly, Last Summer is a 1959 drama directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. The film stars Elizabeth Taylor as Catherine Holly, who is institutionalized after witnessing a traumatic event, and Katharine Hepburn as her aunt, Violet Venable, who seeks to protect her deceased son’s reputation. Montgomery Clift plays Dr. Cukrowicz, a psychiatrist persuaded to perform a lobotomy on Catherine to ...