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In 1937 New Orleans, Catherine Holly is a young woman institutionalized for a severe emotional disturbance that occurred when her cousin, Sebastian Venable, died under strange circumstances while they were on summer holiday in Europe.
Mar 31, 2014 · His voracious sexual appetite proves his undoing. So in effect, Suddenly, Last Summer ends up being a more morbid Death in Venice — a Death in Cabeza de Lobo, if you will — an aging poet...
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Mar 22, 2020 · Once the flood gates open for Catherine, she not only remembers the spectacle of Sebastian’s death but also the circumstances that led to it. https://wordpress.lehigh.edu/screams/files/2020/07/Suddenly_sebastians-death-remembered-copy.wav
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New Orleans, 1937. 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.
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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- Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- 1960-01
In July of 1936, while vacationing in Spain with his cousin Catherine Holly ( Elizabeth Taylor ), young poet Sebastian Venable suddenly died of a heart attack and Catherine was left in a state of amnesia and "dementia praecox".
After Violet describes a trip with Sebastian to the Galapagos Islands, where they witnessed flesh-eating birds devour newly hatched sea turtles, she tells John that she traveled with Sebastian every summer, except for the last one, when Sebastian went with Catherine and died of a heart attack on the day that Catherine lost her mind.
