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Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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.
The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth.
Suddenly, Last Summer - Full Cast & Crew. A society matron offers a New Orleans brain surgeon a million-dollar grant on the condition that he lobotomize her niece, who witnessed the murder of...
Overview. The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth. Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Director. Gore Vidal. Screenplay. Tennessee Williams. Screenplay.
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Suddenly Last Summer is a one-act play by Tennessee Williams, written in New York in 1957. 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).
One of the most daring productions was Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), which came at the end of the decade and served as a harbinger of things to come in the films of the '60s. Based on a one-act play by Tennessee Williams, the film deals with then-shocking themes.
Synopsis by Brian J. Dillard. In this lush, lurid adaptation of the 1957 Tennessee Williams one-act, Elizabeth Taylor and Katharine Hepburn play a seemingly insane, young New Orleans debutante and the wealthy aunt who wants to lobotomize her. Dr. John Cukrowicz (Montgomery Clift) is a gifted Chicago brain surgeon stymied by the primitive ...
